Centering a Decolonial Relational Approach to Inter/Cross Community Research

As part of its Fall-Winter 2024/2025 Event Series: Centering BIPOC Kinship in Research Practice, the OISE BIPOC Thesis Group is offering the workshop, “Writing a Research Design and Navigating the Research Ethics Board: Centering a Decolonial Relational Approach to Inter/Cross Community Research.” 

This workshop is designed to engage and equip student researchers with the tools necessary to craft research designs that prioritize a decolonial relational approach to research. We will delve into critical topics such as navigating research ethics boards while upholding accountability to communities throughout the research journey.

Key Takeaways:

• research designs rooted in decolonial relational principles.
• Strategies for effectively navigating research ethics boards while centering a community-centered research approach 

This is an event ONLY for Black, Indigenous, and graduate student researchers of colour (BIPOC). 

Facilitator:

Dr. Dirk J. Rodricks (he/ him) is a queer, neurodivergent, racialized (Desi/South Asian/Brown), cisgender settler with ancestors from the southern part of India, and serves as Assistant Professor, Curriculum and Pedagogy in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching, and Learning (CTL) at the University of Toronto’s Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE). Committed to critical, creative, anti-racist, and de/colonial pedagogies, Dr. Rodricks’ research is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), where he examines multiply minoritized young adult identity formations and negotiations of social wellness in formal and nonformal sites of learning, intergenerational ethnoracial and queer inheritances across transnational contexts, and de/colonizing qualitative methodologies anchored by applied drama. He has been published in the ASHE Higher Education Report Series, Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance, Youth Theatre Journal, Qualitative Inquiry, and the International Journal for Qualitative Studies in Education. He has two co-edited volumes published with Routledge and Springer respectively.