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A path toward reconciling Indigenous research with research assessment
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The University of Alberta (UA) is the home to North America's first and only Faculty of Native Studies. Campus members and the community are proud of the innovative research, teaching, and service done by Indigenous researchers and students on our campus. UA's library leadership team has tasked the library's Research Impact Team (RIT) to provide equitable support across campus. However, RIT has struggled with how we can provide meaningful support to the Faculty of Native Studies and to the large number of Indigenous researchers working on our campus. Much of this constraint comes from having a service model and outlook which is situated in very traditional quantitative methodologies and practices. Because RIT wants to be active participants in the Library's calls for decolonization and Indigenization, in 2023 we began exploring the possible creation of a framework that we can use on our campus to assess Indigenous research and to build a relationship between RIT and Indigenous scholars. This presentation will outline our work in this area, which to date includes: Collaborating with the UA's Indigenous Initiatives Office, the Faculty of Native Studies, and the library's Indigenous Initiatives Team; Working with Indigenous scholars and librarians to explore what research impact could mean for them and how/whether this can be measured; and an environmental scan and scoping review of literature on this topic. We hope to reflect on how we can incorporate practices and behaviours into current research assessment activities to make them meaningful for Indigenous researchers and research in Canada.
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- 2024-06-01
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- Conference/Workshop Presentation