The Office of Community Engagement produces resources to assist faculty, staff and students in their efforts to develop and sustain their community engagement efforts.
Dewemaagannag/My Relations is a series of resources from the Office of Community Engagement, grounded in Indigenous knowledge, to guide non-Indigenous professors, researchers, students and staff toward respectful, reciprocal collaborations with Indigenous communities. Each resource invites self-reflection and accountability in support of Concordia's Truth and Reconciliation commitments.
The Decolonial Toolbox is the result of a multi-year collaboration between the Office of Community Engagement, Mikana and the Montreal Indigenous Community NETWORK. The resource is a self-directed learning tool to understand historical and contemporary Indigenous realities. The pathway gathers carefully selected resources produced by Indigenous peoples and organizations that are accessible and promote Indigenous expertise.
Developed by the Concordia’s Indigenous Directions Leadership Group, this document assists the process of respectfully and ethically inviting, interacting and collaborating with Elders, Knowledge Keepers and community members. It provides information about protocols and guidelines to be followed by Concordia University faculty, staff and students who wish to engage with Indigenous peoples and communities on campus or in the Tiohtià:ke (Montréal) area and beyond.
This kit is a comprehensive hub of multimedia resources dedicated to collaborative research with Indigenous youth. These resources have been created by members of the Chaire-réseau de recherche sur la jeunesse du Québec (CRJ), especially the Indigenous Youth advisory committee. You’ll find tools and insights that showcase the efforts of the CRJ to develop relevant and impactful collaborative research methods tailored to the unique needs and perspectives of Indigenous youth.
This guide was inspired by the key takeaways the Office of Community Engagement learned during the design and delivery of Enable Montreal, a non-competitive design challenge to co-create solutions for a more inclusive and accessible city. The goal of sharing these lessons is to support, inform and inspire other social innovation and community engagement practitioners as they seek to make their activities more inclusive and accessible to all.
If you're a researcher preparing to work in a community setting, the discussion summary from Community-Based Research Canada is a thoughtful first step. It offers a clear list of steps for researchers and institutions before entering community collaborations - alongside key considerations for ethical, responsive facilitation of community-based research.
This 8-week synchronous course provides researchers with practical knowledge needed to conduct research within a community setting. Through this course, researchers will gain awareness of the ethical implications of community-based research, and how to mobilize it for maximum impact.
This episode from the The Action Research Podcast provides key definitions and principles of Community-Based Participatory Action Research (CBPAR), and offers advice on how to consider positionality when using this framework. The episode description includes further resources on CBPAR, North American case studies, and theoretical explanations and sugggestions for community work.
LittleSis specializes in power research (i.e., research on the networks of powerful people, organizations, and relationships) using mapping. Their compilation of diagrams, reports, and live and recorded training sessions, provides researchers with multiple ways to consider and design power research in the context of community-based research, including tools that can be used to visualize power links.
Curious about how to bring community perspectives and partners into your teaching? This colorful, interactive workbook by Mae Shaw and Jim Crowther is a great place to begin. It offers reflective exercises and engaging activities that connect everyday classroom practices to broader theories and values of community engagement.
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