Decolonizing Research - Indigenous Research Methodologies in Western Academic Institutions

The Deep Water Initiative (DWI), Student Union, and the Center for Writing and Scholarship at the would like to invite you – – to an online academic panel that will explore the question: How do scholars, from a diversity of backgrounds, in increasingly challenging times, appropriately adopt Indigenous Research Methodologies to their research from within Western academic institutions?California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS)this Fall

The current social and political climate within the US presents students of the Western academic institution with a unique opportunity to engage in a dialogue about the role that research can play in decolonizing institutional paradigms. How can scholars, from all walks of life, redefine the current boundaries of our academic paradigms by applying Indigenous Research Methodologies and Indigenous Research Paradigms to their work? Furthermore, in an increasingly challenging research environment, how do scholars apply these methodologies within a theoretical and qualitative framework and maintain the…