Spark Talk: “Decolonizing Academic Funding: Reimagining Power, Equity and Access in Indigenous Research Funding” by Cathy Fournier (April 4th, 2025)

Date/Time
Date(s) - 04/04/2025
10:30 am - 11:30 am

Description: In this presentation Cathy Fournier will provide an overview of an Indigenous community-identified and led collaborative funding initiative undertaken at a major university in Canada in 2020. She will highlight the successes and challenges of this initiative in meeting its overarching goals: Indigenous research sovereignty and self-determination while focusing on the key themes that emerged in her research:

1. The importance of using Indigenous principles in this funding initiative.
2. The importance of community identified research.
3.  The reduction of administrative barriers due to the initiatives collaborative nature.
4. Perceived power imbalance between academic and community researchers.

Bio: Cathy Fournier (she/her) is the Director, Indigenous Homelessness Prevention at the Canadian Observatory on Homelessness. Her current research involves working with Indigenous communities examining Indigenous homelessness and homelessness prevention through a lens of anti-colonialism, social justice and Indigenous knowledges.

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