I Don't Think that Any Peer Review Committee… Would Ever ‘Get’ What I Currently Do: How Institutional Metrics for Success and Merit Risk Perpetuating the (Re)production of Colonial Relationships in Community-Based Participatory Research Involving Indigenous Peoples in Canada

This article reports on findings from a study that explored how a group of leading health researchers who do Indigenous community-engaged research (n = 20) in Canada envision enacting ethically sound research with Indigenous communities, as well as the concomitant tensions associated with doing so....

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Published in:International indigenous policy journal 2015-09, Vol.6 (4), p.1-23
Main Authors: Castleden, Heather, Sylvestre, Paul, Martin, Debbie, McNally, Mary
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Accountability
Canada
Community Benefits
Community Relations
community-based participatory research
decolonizing methodologies
Ethics
Faculty Promotion
Indigenous health
Indigenous Populations
Medical research
Native peoples
Networks
Participatory Research
Peer relationships
Periodicals
Researchers
Success
Tenure
tenure and promotion
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Summary:This article reports on findings from a study that explored how a group of leading health researchers who do Indigenous community-engaged research (n = 20) in Canada envision enacting ethically sound research with Indigenous communities, as well as the concomitant tensions associated with doing so. In particular, we explore how institutional metrics for assessing merit and granting tenure are seen to privilege conventional discourses of productivity and validity in research and, as a result, are largely incongruent with the relational values associated with decolonizing research through community-based participatory health research. Our findings reveal that colonial incursion from the academy risk filtering into such research agendas and create a conflict between relational accountability to community partners and academic accountability to one’s discipline and peers.
ISSN:1916-5781
1916-5781
DOI:10.18584/iipj.2015.6.4.2