Fostering Community in/through Your Research Practice: Research as Kinship – OISE BIPOC Thesis Group

Join the open lecture, “Fostering Community in/through Your Research Practice: Research as Kinship,” part of the OISE BIPOC Thesis Group’s Fall-Winter 2024/2025 event series on centering BIPOC kinship in research.

This lecture will provide participants with practical guidance on selecting research methodologies that prioritize community engagement, reciprocity, and kinship, moving away from colonial, exploitative, and transactional approaches. Explore how methodologies, such as those grounded in Black storytelling, cultivate practices of reciprocity and kinship in qualitative research. 

Key Takeaways:

• Choosing a research methodology that prioritizes community engagement, reciprocity, and kinship
• Key considerations for centering Black storytelling in qualitative research 
• Developing a researcher identity that reflects your practices of reciprocity and kinship

This is an open lecture, and everyone is welcome to attend. 

Speaker:

Dr. Stephanie Fearon (She/ Her) joins York University’s Faculty of Education as the inaugural assistant professor of Black Thriving and Education. Her research draws on Black storytelling traditions to explore the ways that Black mothers support Black student well-being within educational institutions. 

This event is sponsored by the Centre for Urban Schooling.