{"id":81379,"date":"2022-10-20T14:41:44","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T18:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=81379"},"modified":"2025-12-23T15:00:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T20:00:18","slug":"indigenous-research-workshops-offered-as-part-of-building-better-research-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2022\/10\/indigenous-research-workshops-offered-as-part-of-building-better-research-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Indigenous research workshops offered as part of Building Better Research series"},"content":{"rendered":"

An important step in Lyn Trudeau\u2019s research investigating the impacts of residential schools on Indigenous communities was sipping a midnight cup of tea as she sat, wrapped in a blanket, by a fire in her backyard.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had to return to the land because those students were taken from the land,\u201d recalls the Lecturer cross-appointed with Women\u2019s and Gender Studies and Sociology.<\/p>\n

\"Head-and-shoulders

Lyn Trudeau, Lecturer cross-appointed with Women\u2019s and Gender Studies and Sociology, shares her perspectives on conducting Indigenous research.<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cI had to go out there and light that fire more for them than for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trudeau is from Sagamok Anishinawbek First Nation, Eagle Clan. In her 15 years as a scholar, she has researched a variety of topics alongside elders, Indigenous youth, Indigenous teacher candidates and residential school survivors, among others.<\/p>\n

Trudeau\u2019s scholarship involves knowledge and relationships that span from seven generations back to seven generations into the future.<\/p>\n

Research is never done in isolation, she says; building and nurturing relationships, establishing trust and transparency, being sensitive to people\u2019s contexts and longer-term follow-up are among keys to a successful, fruitful research process.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to start honouring Indigenous ways of knowing and simply being in the world,\u201d says Trudeau.<\/p>\n

Indigenous ways of knowing and principles that guide Indigenous research are two of a variety of topics to be covered in an upcoming four-part set of workshops within Brock University\u2019s Building Better Research (BBR)<\/a> professional development series. Workshops take place online from noon to 1 p.m. on the following dates:<\/p>\n