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Welcome from the Editors
Get PDFWe are so pleased to welcome readers to the fifth issue of the Healthy Populations Journal (HPJ), a special edition focusing on Indigenous Health and Health Equity. HPJ is a multi-faculty, student led, open access, peer-reviewed journal housed at HPI at Dalhousie University. As part of our mission to support and disseminate research which advances knowledge on population health research and global health equity, we partnered with the Atlantic Indigenous Mentorship Network (Atlantic-IMN) to create a special issue to facilitate a sharing of student-led Indigenous research taking place across Turtle Island. HPJ also aims to provide a welcoming and accessible academic publishing experience for student authors by reducing barriers to publishing, sharing, and accessing research. To build capacity for peer-reviewed publishing and reviewing Indigenous health research, we employed a mentorship model with a series of interactive scholarly writing and peer reviewing workshops led by Indigenous health researchers and allies, and paired students with experienced mentors to collaboratively to review the manuscripts submitted to this special issue
Embodied in Indigenous Research: How Indigeneity, Positionality, and Relationality Contribute to Research Approaches and Understanding
Get PDFObjectives: As the presence of Indigenous Peoples, world views, perspectives, and teachings continues to grow within academia, the institutional narrative regarding Indigenous approaches to knowing, doing, and being evolves and expands. We would like to contribute to this shifting narrative. Introduction: We are a diverse group of trainees invited into an Indigenous-led research project, entitled IndWisdom, that is exploring the context-mechanism-outcome relationships of Indigenous research. By conducting two parallel study components—an Indigenous-informed realist review and case studies—the larger IndWisdom project aims to advance Indigenous Peoples‘ sovereignty and rights related to how Indigenous Knowledges are centred in research. Through the process of this research, we have come to the understanding that Indigenous Knowledges and Indigenous Knowledge Systems are contextualized and dynamic in nature and are embodied and interconnected in all aspects of one‘s lived experience, language, traditions, and culture. Methods: As a collective, the trainees were supported to participate in a sharing circle to introduce ourselves and reflect on how our positionality and understanding of who we are impacts our approach to engaging with research. Results: While we span different nationhoods and time zones, we share how we have fostered virtual spaces that respect each other\u27s perspectives and approaches as well as honour our own Indigenous world views and allied identities. Discussion: In the same way that our realist review involves recording and analyzing context-mechanism-outcome details of other peoples‘ studies, our paper provides the context of who we are as co-authors, our mechanisms (approaches) of engaging with each other and the IndWisdom study content, and outcomes from our ways of knowing and doing research.Keywords: Indigenous, research, typology/methodology, lived experience, Indigenous research methodologies, ways of knowin
Crossroads Interdisciplinary Health Research Conference Abstracts 2023: (Re)Picturing Health: Capturing New Perspectives
No full textAbstracts are organized in alphabetical order by the first author\u27s surname (click on the "full issue.pdf" on the right).
The conference program is linked here (this will take you to the Crossroads Website)
Handweaving Health
Get PDFThe piece, ‘Handweaving Health’ was created to demonstrate how an individual piece plays a key role in collaboration to form strong, beautiful structures. The image’s knitted texture represents health as a whole. The threads intertwine in a locking weave to create a balanced structure with what seems like limitless capabilities in its strength to support and reinforce. In comparison, ‘health’ can be seen broadly as the center weave of a population, a necessary thread in the collaboration of all the necessary pieces to the final structure – a healthy population. And with one weakened thread, everything unravels
