Announcements
February 12, 2010
IPHRC is pleased to announce a Request for Applications for the Community Network Partnership Research Grants for April 2010. Application deadline for this award is APRIL 2, 2010. Please see Community Research Funding Opportunities for information and application forms.
February 5, 2010
IPHRC is pleased to announce the 2010 Graduate and Undergraduate Student Research Awards. Application deadline for these awards is MARCH 19, 2010. Please see Student Funding Opportunities for information and application forms.
January 8, 2010
Dr. Jo-Ann Episkenew, newly appointed Director, Indigenous Peoples' Health Research Centre
Prior to becoming the Director of the IPHRC, Jo-Ann was an Associate Professor of English at the First Nations University of Canada where she fulfilled a variety of academic administrator roles, including Department Head of English, Academic Dean, and Associate Director (Programs & Administration) of the Indigenous Peoples' Health Research Centre.
Jo-Ann is interested in studying the applications of literature and drama as part of the process for Indigenous communities healing from the effects of historical trauma. The Canadian Institutes of Health Research awarded her team a four-year Operating Grant to continue their work with Indigenous youth using theatre techniques to explore healthy decision-making.
Her book Taking Back Our Spirits: Indigenous Literature, Public Policy, and Healing (2009) won the Saskatchewan Book Award for Scholarly Writing. Jo-Ann represents the Canadian Prairie Region on the national executive of the Canadian Association of Commonwealth Literatures and Language Studies, is past-President of the Association for Bibliotherapy and Applied Literatures, is a member of the Board of the Lung Association of Saskatchewan and participated in the development of the National Lung Framework.
Jo-Ann received her B.A., Hons. Cert., M.A. (Regina) and Ph.D. magna cum laude (Ernst-Moritz-Arndt, Greifswald, Germany).
December 1, 2009
IPHRC congratulates Network Research Associate, Sherri Pooyak, who successfully completed her MSW in Social Work. Her thesis is entitled: My life is my ceremony: Indigenous Women of the sex trade share stories about the families and their resiliency. Sherri successfully defended in October 2009.
IPHRC congratulates Network Research Associate, Nicole Stevenson, who succesfully completed her MSc in Kinesiology and Health Studies. Her thesis is entitled "Elders Stories of Healing: A Narrative Inquiry into Indigenous and Western Health Systems Working in Tandem". Nicole successfully defended in August 2009.
Released November 19, 2009
You-Tube Video Gives Voice to Aboriginal Women Struggling with Drug Addiction:
U of S-Community Research Project
A powerful new music video From Stilettos to Moccasins was released this week, the culmination of a unique project that gave voice to Aboriginal women healing from drug abuse, addictions and problems with the law, together with those who are helping them on their journey.
The video is part of a community-based research project conducted by the University of Saskatchewan (U of S), National Native Addictions Partnership Foundation (NNAPF), and the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse (CCSA). The roughly four-minute video was shared at a national CCSA conference in Halifax this week and can be viewed on You-Tube at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QRb8wA2iHs
The research project examined the role that identity and stigma have in the healing journeys of criminalized Aboriginal women in treatment for drug abuse at centres across Canada. The video is being used by the research team in the development of a discussion guide for workshops at addiction treatment centres across Canada.
"By creating a music video, based on the findings of academic research, we can increase our capacity to strengthen understanding about Aboriginal women’s treatment needs among a broad range of service providers and the general public," said U of S sociologist Colleen Dell, Research Chair in Substance Abuse. "It also offers a unique and personalized message of hope and inspiration to women on their healing journeys."
The song featured in the video was created at a workshop in February at Cedar Lodge on Blackstrap Lake, SK., with the professional collaboration of singer/songwriter Violet Naytowhow, a Woodland Cree from Prince Albert. Naytowhow and others who composed the song perform in the music video, which was presented in Halifax this week at the national conference "Issues of Substance" during National Addictions Awareness Week (Nov. 15-21).
"As a way of informing treatment practice, capturing the unique experiences of Aboriginal women who have recovered from their addictions in song is most inspiring," says Rita Notarandrea, deputy chief executive officer of the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse.
"We are merging these messages with academic literature and sharing this research with others, in the hope of achieving a greater impact on policy and practice of addictions treatment in Saskatchewan and across Canada," says Carol Hopkins, NNAPF executive-director.
The team worked with Mae Star Productions, an independent Saskatchewan-based company, to produce the music video.
The multi-year collaborative research project was funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Institute of Aboriginal Peoples’ Health. The project involved interviews with more than 100 First Nations, Inuit and Métis women in treatment for illicit drug use.
For more information, please see the website of the research project at: http://www.addictionresearchchair.com/creating-knowledge/national/cihr-research-project
Note to Editors: Media outlets are welcome to broadcast the song and music video and to conduct interviews with members of the research team.
For more information, contact:
Colleen Dell
Department of Sociology/School of Public Health
University of Saskatchewan
(306)-966-5912
Kathryn Warden
U of S Research Communications
(306)-966-2506
June 5, 2008
Indigenous Peoples’ Health Research Centre’s (IPHRC) Dr. Caroline Tait, was the recipient of the 2008 YWCA Women of Distinction science, technology or research award.
The 2008 Women of Distinction awards were handed out Thursday, June 5, 2008 an evening gala held at TCU Place, Saskatoon.
The awards, given out by the YWCA, honour the accomplishments of exceptional Saskatoon women who contribute to a number of different areas.
Dr. Caroline Tait, a Co-Principal Applicant with IPHRC, is a Metis woman with a PhD in medical anthropology. Her experience has benefited indigenous people and women on the edge of mainstream society. Tait focuses her work on the prevention of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder in First Nations communities and adapting immigrant and indigenous people as newcomers to urban life.
March 15, 2008
Congratulations to IPHRC student Roberta Kotowich who has been invited to attend Martin Luther University Halle Wittenberg in Halle, Germany as an invited guest masters student. Roberta will have access to state-of-the-art equipment and the opportunity to present a seminar on her work.
January 25, 2008
IPHRC congratulates Co-Principal Investigator, Carrie Bourassa, who successfully completed her Ph.D. in Social Studies. Her dissertation was entitled Destruction of the Métis Nation: Heath Consequences.
January 22, 2008
IPHRC’s Co-Principal Investigator, Carrie Bourassa, recently accepted the invitation from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research to serve as a member of the Standing Committee on Ethics (SCE), a permanent advisory committee of the Governing Council of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) for a term of three years.
October, 2007
IPHRC congratulates Assistant Director, Raven Sinclair, who successfully completed her Ph.D. in Social Work. Her dissertation was entitled “All my Relations * Adult Native Transracial Adoptees: A critical case study of cultural identity”.
Miyo-Mahcihowin: A Report on Indigenous Health in Saskatchewan
The Indigenous Peoples' Health Research Centre is pleased to announce the release of its report Miyo-Mahcihowin: A report on Indigenous Health in Saskatchewan. The report overviews key issues in Indigenous health and points to directions for the Indigenous health research agenda in the province.
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