How do Indigenous peoples claim sovereignty over their data and information, and work to transform the very means, methods and values through which “data” is defined and disseminated? How can the exercise of Indigenous data sovereignty and broader computational empowerment enhance and inspire Indigenous identities, representations and futures? Why should settler scholars, organizations, and individuals support Indigenous data sovereignty? How can “data” be Indigenized?
Registration: via Zoom
We are excited to announce that Christine Garinger has joined the CRHESI team as Program Evaluator/Research Coordinator. Her focus will be building and supporting new research and program evaluation collaborations with academic and community partners. Whether you are a researcher seeking to strengthen community partnerships or an agency looking to bolster program evaluation supports, Christine is here to help broker and inspire new connections. She will also assist with some of the day-to-day administrative tasks of the centre.
Christine is a Registered Nurse with many years of clinical experience in community nursing. She has a Masters of Health Information Science from Western University and is currently a PhD student at the Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing (Faculty of Health Sciences, Western University). She cares about health equity and collaborates to improve community healthcare.
Instrumental to the development and launch of CRHESI back in 2015, Christine was previously one of the first co-coordinators on staff at the centre. She also served as the Research and Evaluation Lead at mindyourmind for 7 years. Christine brings a wealth of research and evaluation experience, as well as a strong network of relationships in the community.
Learning Network Virtual Forum in Partnership with Students for Consent Culture (February 8 & 9, 2022 from 1:00 to 3:30 pm ET)
The Forum brings together culturally and gender diverse survivor, student, and advocate perspectives on current realities related to gender-based sexual violence and oppressions on Canadian campuses. Speakers will focus on implications for policy and programs required to create inclusive, safe campuses. Participants will learn about emerging, innovative, and culturally responsive online and in-person supports and programs for survivors, bystanders, and those who have committed harm.
Registration details: Reinventing Our Campuses: Creating Real Community Safety to Address Sexual Violence
Housing costs are skyrocketing in many American cities. In this talk, Dr. Einstein explores how political inequality in politics makes it difficult to build new housing and reform housing policy. Using a mix of novel administrative data, in-depth interviews, and archival evidence, she finds that local policies amplify the voices of older, privileged homeowners – and that reforming these policies is extraordinarily difficult.
February 4, 2022, 1:00 to 2:30 PM
Zoom meeting ID: 929 9783 1033
Passcode: 162052
nest.uwo.ca
Writing in University Affairs, Candace Brunette-Debassige argues that
until universities can truly start to dismantle the deeper, systemic colonial and ideological structures of administration we all take for granted, universities will continue to be hostile and violent to Indigenous People and knowledges.
Full article: Questioning colonialism in university administration
