CIHR will be hosting a webinar to support participants with the requirements of the funding opportunity “Project Grant – Fall 2020 Competition” and to answer questions on how to apply.

A French session is also available (see event post).

CIHR will be hosting a webinar, to support participants with the requirements of the funding opportunity “Project Grant – Fall 2020 Competition” and to answer questions on how to apply.  This session will be in French, please see event calendar for the English session.

The Offices of Research Services and Human Rights and Equity will be jointly hosting a workshop to provide guidance on how best to address Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) requirements in NSERC grants.

EDI considerations are now a mandatory component of all NSERC grant programs, including the upcoming Discovery and RTI Grants, as well as the industry-partnered Alliance Grants. In order to ensure grant success, applicants are required to discuss the ways in which they are implementing equitable practices in their research programs and their training environments.

This workshop will provide you with an introduction to equity, diversity and inclusion principles, and will discuss the resources and supports available to you at Lakehead University to assist with implementing equitable practices within your research environment. EDI will be discussed within the context of NSERC funding applications, specifically with respect to best practices for meeting the EDI guidelines within Discovery grant applications. To provide insight into how the components are adjudicated within the Discovery Grant competition, we will be joined by Dr. Peter Hollings, who is a selection committee co-chair within the Geosciences Evaluation Group for the Discovery Grant program.  

This workshop will be held Wed, October 7^th from 1pm to 2:30pm via Zoom. If you are interested in attending, please RSVP here: https://forms.gle/Q6dgLCqFHft8sPbFA

Presenters:

Dr. Lexi Haslehurst, NSERC Research Facilitator

Office of Research Services

Ms. Ayesha Sajid, Training and Development Advisor

Office of Human Rights and Equity

Guest speaker:

Dr. Peter Hollings, NSERC Discovery Selection Committee Co-Chair (Geosciences)

Lakehead University, Chair, Dept. of Geology

As you start your research career at Lakehead University, it’s important to know that you are not alone. In this session, you will learn strategies from experienced faculty members about how to get your program of research started. You will learn about how to cultivate a peer support system and reach out to peer mentors. Finally, you will develop strategies to balance the demands of teaching, research, and service.

PRESENTERS

Dr. Andrew P. Dean, Vice-President, Research and Innovation

Dr. Amanda Diochon, Associate Professor, Department of Geology

To register for this virtual event, please email ea.vpri@lakeheadu.ca and a zoom link will be shared

The Proclaiming Our Roots project is the culmination of the histories, stories and experiences of mixed Black and Indigenous Peoples on Turtle Island. This project cultivates a space to create written, visual and narrative archives of the geographies, histories, and contemporary realities of Afro-Indigenous Peoples. With over 400 years of African diasporic presence in Canada, relationships between Black and Indigenous Peoples offered a form of resistance against colonial oppression and afforded these communities an opportunity for survival. In this webinar, Dr. Ciann L. Wilson and Ann Marie Beals explore how such a space is created to enable equitable participation with community members in decentering whiteness and revisionist histories, while moving beyond the white gaze. As well, they discuss challenges and dangers within community-based research in understanding how privilege and colonial forces shape the research process as community is excluded from the benefits of the work.

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About this Event

Research is a powerful act of knowledge creation that has significant real world impacts for communities in, for example, developing, implementing and transforming policies and in the distribution of resources. Complicit in colonial projects around the world, research also has problematic histories of harm, exploitation and theft within Indigenous and racialized communities. These histories and the colonial landscape of academia continue to situate researchers and academic institutions in a position to decide who is the "knower" in research and who is constructed as those to be known or knowable. Community-based research is an alternative approach to traditional forms of research that attempts to counteract the imbalance of power experienced by communities subject to marginalization and structural violence, including Indigenous and racialized peoples. Is community-based research enough of a counterbalance if the institutions in which research is conducted and the researchers conducting the research are consciously or unconsciously grounded in a colonial worldview? This webinar will offer ideas and considerations towards decolonizing approaches to research from a systems perspective. Dr. Hackett will draw from a decolonizing framework applied to social work established from her research with an African-Caribbean community situated in Tkaronto on the Indigenous lands of Turtle-Island, also known as the Greater Toronto area of Canada.