INDIGENOUS ORGANIZATIONS' AND COMMUNITIES' RESEARCH LAB
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At the Indigenous Organizations' and Communities' Research Lab, we conduct applied mixed-method research that helps organizations reach their goals, with a particular emphasis on Indigenous programs within Western institutions. Current research includes Indigenous employment experiences, allyship, mentorship, interactions with police, mental health programming, and readiness to practice in primary health and policy
Mentorship among Indigenous people is thought of and practiced differently than it is in Western culture. We have developed a model of Indigenous mentorship within the health sciences and are working to validate it.
We are working to expand a research program to improve employment experiences, increase employment and income, and translate those needs into a language that organizations are familiar with.
Sometimes being an ally is risky; sometimes it's popular. Through this research, we are trying to explore how allyship can be aligned with the needs of Indigenous stakeholders.
We are currently conducting a content analysis of mental health programming that has been based on or integrated Indigenous culture to identify how culture is integrated and its subsequent effects.
. This project has two primary research questions: what are the domains that define Indigenous readiness to practice and what are the measurement tools being used to quantify this readiness.
This project was inspired by looking at readiness to practice healthcare with Indigenous populations. The project is looking at how R2P is defined and measured in the literature
The aims are to investigate how Indigenous encounters with the police are represented in the scholarly literature, in public media, and social media.
This project is a program evaluation of the Center of Climate and Aerosol Research's 10-week paid summer research program for undergraduates at Portland State University.
We content analyzed 238 Indigenous studies websites across Canada, the US, Australia, and New Zealand to see how the discipline was representing itself.
IPHCPR is the Indigenous Primary Health Care and Policy Research network of Alberta, led by Lyndsay Crowshoe, M.D., of Foothills Hospital's department of family medicine. The network is one of many provincal networks funded by the CIHR's National Environments for Indigenous Health Research (NEIHR). As the evaluator of our network, our lab has a team dedicated to the formative and summative evaluations of the network, together with independent research that supports this unique evaluation opportunity.
Our lab is dedicated to improving Indigenous employment. Often times, education is intertwined with employment opportunity, and, as such, I've found myself on projects seekings to improve Indigenous education. These include projects about STEM (i.e., science, technology, engineering, and math), sustainability, and special education.
