Lecture: Using Indigenous methodologies

Conducting research in the academy using Indigenous methodologies With Dr. Margaret Kovach, University of Saskatchewan

@ Concordia University WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12TH, 2016 10-11:30 2149 Mackay Street, room CI-104

(School of Community and Public Affairs Building)

About the author:

Margaret Kovach (Sakewew pîsim iskwew) is of Plains Cree and Saulteaux ancestry and a member of Pasqua First Nation located in southern Saskatchewan. She is currently an Associate Professor at the College of Education, University of Saskatchewan. She received her PhD from the University of Victoria in 2007. Dr. Kovach's work focuses on Indigenous research methodologies and Indigenous post-secondary education. Dr. Kovach's publications have had a significant impact in her field. Her book Indigenous Methodologies: Characteristics, Conversations, and Contexts, published through the University of Toronto Press, won the Scholarly Writing Award, Saskatchewan Book Awards. It has been widely used as a research text locally, nationally, and internationally. She has co-authored a SSHRC funded report Indigenous Presence: Experiencing and Envisioning Indigenous Knowledges within Selected Postsecondary Sites of Education and Social Work (2015) with a western Canadian team of researchers. Most recently she was the planning co-chair of the 2015 University of Saskatchewan hosted National forum “Building Reconciliation: Universities answering the TRC’s calls to action”.

Sponsored by Indigenous youth strategic funds. Everyone welcome but space is limited, Please RSVP by October 9th marie-eve.drouin-gagne@hotmail.ca