Decolonizing Data Analysis – OISE BIPOC Thesis Group

The OISE BIPOC Thesis Group’s is offering the workshop, “Decolonizing Data Analysis: Centering Anti-Colonial Frameworks for BIPOC Researchers” as part of its Fall-Winter 2024/2025 event series: Centering BIPOC Kinship in Research Practice.

This workshop is designed to support BIPOC student researchers to critically examine and challenge traditional, colonial frameworks in data analysis in qualitative and mixed-methods research. Students will examine and develop anti-colonial knowledge-gathering and data analysis practices, to engage in research that honours and reflects the values, lived experiences, and knowledge systems of diverse communities often excluded from traditional research practices and methodologies. 

Key Takeaways:

• Approaches to anti-colonial data analysis (knowledge gathering) that center relational community-centered approaches to research
• Tools for integrating relational accountability into data interpretation within anti-colonial contexts 
• Strategies for applying anti-colonial analysis in qualitative and mixed-methods research

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

Facilitator: Dr. Kisha McPherson (She/Her) is an assistant professor in the School of Professional Communication (ProCom) at Toronto Metropolitan University.  She is an educator and scholar with over 15 years of research and teaching experience in social justice education, critical race theories, media and cultural studies. Dr. McPherson uses community-based approaches to develop interdisciplinary scholarship that examines the impact of media, popular culture, and contemporary representations of Blackness on the identity and education of Black youth. Dr. McPherson grounds her work within a variety of Black feminist and anti-colonial approaches to center anti-oppressive pedagogies and research approaches, which support effective and sustainable teaching and learning practices in both formal and informal educational spaces.