Grant: Planning and Dissemination Grant - Institute Community Support

In February 2024, six researchers with intersectional identities from Canadian post-secondary institutions gathered on Treaty 7 territory in Banff, Alberta, for a CIHR-funded two-day meeting. They shared lived experiences and formulated specific priorities and recommendations to enhance Indigenization and EDIA in their research programs. They agreed to focus on academic institutions, funding agencies, and academic societies, centering on three core areas: defining Indigenization and EDIA, fostering a culture of Indigenization and EDIA through various actors, and promoting systemic changes by challenging existing merit systems rooted in colonial patriarchy. The group identified the need for clear definitions, cultural transformation, and systemic changes to enhance Indigenization and EDIA. While these recommendations are directed at physical activity and health researchers who populate various positions of power across the research ecosystem in Canada, the call to action focused on three main stakeholders-academic institutions, funding agencies, and academic societies. Securing the CIHR Meeting and Dissemination grant will enable the team to further advance these initiatives. The overall aim of the proposed dissemination plans is to develop knowledge mobilization products and tools based on the priorities and recommendations developed in our previous meeting through research-creation. Specific objectives of this proposal are to: 1)Deliver Wanderlusting research-creation workshops in a hybrid format (in-person and via Zoom), encouraging participants to explore questions of Indigenization and EDIA; 2)Collaborate with participating artists to co-create a Zine, capturing the outcomes of each Wanderlusting research-creation workshop in both written and visual formats; 3)Develop and launch a dedicated website for the Indigenization and EDIA project to archive and share the process and outcomes of our research and research-creation activities.