-Working with external community partners and members on issues related to Indigenous knowledge structures and the digital environment. (i.e. Wikipedia, databases, digital libraries, repositories, and archives)
-Issues pertaining to terminology used in engagements with participants and in writing (i.e. terms that force participants to respond in a certain way, terms or indicators that facilitate the categorization of individuals even if they do not personally identify with these categories, and terminology that may offend participants).
-Indigenous governance of research; community-based protocols; examples of successful university-community collaborations; examples from NunatuKavut on how to proceed in practice with provincial legislation and national policy
-My work draws on Indigenous theoretical frameworks that emphasize responsibility and relationships to place (Wilson 2008, Kovach 2009). My approach will focus on Bisiindam (listening) to all Creation and ceremony as taught to me by the Mishomisuk (grandfathers) and Nokumisuk (grandmothers).
-Transforming health research, policy and clinical relationships within Indigenous health systems through a cultural safety and Indigenous health literacy framework to educate and provide guidance for non-Indigenous researchers and stakeholders working within those systems and communities.
-I am incorporating oral histories and interviews about Indigenous activist experiences in the 1970s in my (history) dissertation research. I am particularly interested in developing protocols that support making the recorded interviews accessible to the participants' communities or affiliated organizations (i.e. not just hoarded in my private collection).
-Two-spirits and sexuality research
-I am Project Lead for the York Student Identity Census, and will be engaging in Indigenous community engagement research that will be used to inform both the project and the Anti-Racism Directorate. We want to ensure that this research is done appropriately to maximize its benefits to the community.
-I would like to discuss proper consultation/collaboration while developing my research proposal around High Park, Toronto. In particular, how to complete a dissertation within deadlines and with current financial limitations, but conducting a mutually beneficial collaborative ethnography with various parties with a vested interest in Toronto history.
-My work revolves around soils in planning processes. I'm interested in the politics and materiality of soils, which includes various knowledges about soils, both historically and at present (in Southern Ontario). This requires an engagement with Indigenous worldviews and mythologies on land/soils. Thus, I have questions/concerns on this matter.
-Gaining a more through understanding of methodologies of "Mobilizing"/sharing Indigenous knowledge/creative practice(s) on its own terms. Also strategies to guard against engaging in white saviour relations with Indigenous collaborators/colleagues.
-I am interested in exploring how I might creatively navigate issues of representation that are actively decolonial through the medium of ethnography.
-I want to work with other researchers to conduct and support research about energy use in Indigenous communities. This can entail social research methods and ethics applications. I would like to collaborate and connect this to social and environmental concerns.
-An ethics issue that I would like discussed at this session is appropriate approaches to artifact excavations; what do we as researchers consider to be a respectful approach when it comes to discovering Indigenous artifacts and/ or burial remains? Are there policies that protect these artifacts/ remains?
-I'm wondering how to approach Indigenous communities to conduct research together with consideration that I am a settler person.
-I am an Indigenous community member on Ryerson's REB. I’m seeing a lot of Indigenous research that isn't really reciprocal, and "decolonization research" that is really just in solidarity with Indigenous causes.
-Conducting Indigenous research among federally-unrecognized Indigenous peoples (especially where explicit Indigenous protocols have not been developed by the communities in question).
-Balancing and trying to "undo" Western research protocols/ethics, and making space for Indigenous re-search ethics
-My research focuses on the 24th November apology to the residential school (RS) survivors of NL. My methodology will include semi-structured interviews. Given the sensitivity of the nature of the research I hope to learn more about how to conduct these interviews in the most humane and ethical way possible.
-I would be interested in discussing leadership by Indigenous researchers and the ethics of non-Indigenous researchers engaging in research focused on Indigenous peoples/communities
-I'm interested in discussing how university ethics protocols don't always fit with community expectations. In particular, situations when communities are willing to participate but do not have the interest/time/resources to co-design the research. Most relevant to graduate students with limited resources either for their own travel/fieldwork or to offer.
-As an Undergrad that intends to continue towards a PhD in Indigenous Studies, I'm mostly interested in discussing individualizing Indigenous nations, rather than the current pan-Indigenous pedagogy. My main focus is also on cultural revitalization as a means of healing.
-My research is historical and archive-based. I am interested in discussing tensions between finding ways to take direction from communities whose records I study, while not burdening people who are already very busy, as well as elders who have been described to me as "tired of being interviewed."
-How can research provide benefit to Indigenous communities and organizations? This question can be explored by considering the OCAP principles in depth, also by thinking about what "giving back" means in different research scenarios.
-I am doing my research thesis on collaboration amongst Quechua immigrants and Indigenous people from Canada. I am studying the identity of Quechua people as they migrate to Canada and become settlers of these lands.
-I would be interested in discussing how non-Indigenous allies can help to conduct research without taking up the space of Indigenous colleagues
-I am highly interested in research ethics of indigenous contexts. It is a deep concern of mine to learn tools and methods with which to research vulnerable or marginalized populations sensitively and competently, and to avoid/prevent socially-conditioned narratives or prejudices from manifesting in my current and future work.
-For 6 years I brought undergraduate students to Chiapas, Mexico to learn about social movement organizing from the Zapatistas- a Mayan group. What are the ethical considerations non-indigenous activists should bear in mind when implementing indigenous organizing lessons in their home communities?
-I find the York U Research Ethics Board Checklist for Researchers: Research involving Aboriginal People problematic and would be interested in other's experience.
-Are Band Councils the only legitimate source of authority for getting consent to research projects?
-Are we really fulfilling the notion of mutual-aid in relation to research partnerships between communities and universities? How can we find the time to maintain so many on-going relationships with any integrity?"
-What are some examples that are helping or hindering Indigenous methods and research? While I understand an overall, broadened view of how learning institutions alienate Indigenous learning, I would like to speak with experts about where York University is in regard to this issue.
-I am finishing up a dissertation on internet development in Nunavut and the relationship of access to the Inuit art market. I would like to attend this workshop to make sure my research ethics are as strong and positive as possible.
