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McMaster Indigenous Graduate Students
LOGO
Discription to be posted at a later date
WHO WE ARE
The McMaster Indigenous Graduate Students (MIGS) was initially formed to support Indigenous graduate students who are attending McMaster University and to create opportunities for scholarly dialogue and collaboration regarding their research interests and shared common experiences related to graduate-level education.
Indigenous and non - Indigenous student members are also interested in raising awareness and addressing structural issues that often serve as barriers to educational advancement for Indigenous peoples. This includes a strong interest in mentoring Indigenous under-graduate students and networking with other scholars and faculty across all departments both at McMaster and from other Universities in Canada.
MIGS invites both Indigenous graduate students and non – Indigenous graduate students with research interests that involve Indigenous populations to our monthly informal meetings that are held in the Indigenous Studies Program (ISP) student lounge.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
“Indigeneity and the University: Activism, Scholarship and Pedagogy”
MIGS HOSTED STUDENT CONFERENCE
Friday, November 23, 2012
9AM - 5PM
Location: Celebration Hall (KTH B116)
We invite both graduate and undergraduate students to submit paper and poster proposals.[See 'Call for Abstracts] The submission deadline has been extended to November 7, 2012. We also have a small number of student travel subsidies available on request. Additional conference information will be posted soon.
Please send any queries about the conference and your submissions to: migs@mcmaster.ca
*view Conference Poster- Speakers* REVISED NOVEMBER 12, 2012
Confirmed Speakers Include:
David Roy Newhouse
Associate Professor
Business Administration
Chair, Indigenous Studies
David Newhouse is Onondaga from the Six Nations of the Grand River community near Brantford, Ontario. He was the first Principal of the new Peter Gzowski College at Trent University and Chair of the Department of Indigenous Studies. He is also an Associate Professor in the Business Administration Program. Professor Newhouse is Co-Chair of the Trent Aboriginal Education Council. He was the IMC/U of S Aboriginal Scholar in Residence at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon in 1998/99. He also teaches in the Graduate CED Program at Concordia University.
He served as founding editor of the CANDO Journal of Aboriginal Economic Development, the first peer-reviewed academic journal devoted to Aboriginal economic development issues. He is the past Chair and a current member of the Council for the Advancement of Native Development Officers (CANDO) Standing Committee on Education. He also served as a member of the Policy Team on Economics for the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples. In 2001, he served as a member of the Independent Panel on Access Criteria for the Atlantic Fisheries for the Department of Fisheries and Oceans. He is a member of the National Aboriginal Benchmarking Committee of the National Aboriginal Economic Development Board. He currently serves as the Science Officer for the Aboriginal Peoples Health research committee for the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
His research interests are focused on the way in which Aboriginal traditional thought and western thought are coming together and creating modern Aboriginal societies. His current exploration examines indigenous ideas about the future and the manner in which these are given political and social expression.
Lynn Lavallee, PhD
Associate Professor
Ryerson University
Lynn Lavallee is Anishnaabek Metis born in Sudbury, Ontario. She is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Work at Ryerson University. She has undergraduate degrees in Psychology and Kinesiology from York University, a Master of Science in Community Health from the University of Toronto and a Doctorate of Philosophy from the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Social Work.
Lynn research interests include Indigenous health and well-being, mental health and Indigenous identity, and Indigenous research ethics and methodologies. She is involved in several community-based research projects involving recreational and cultural programme evaluation research and diabetes. She has written on the topic of mental health and Indigenous identity and the impact of a holistic approach to well-being.
The ultimate goal of her pedagogical, research and service interest is the advancement of Indigenous knowledge in the academy and in research. She is committed to numerous community and university service activities to further this goal. For instance, since 2005 she has served as a peer reviewer and Chair of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research HIV/AIDS Aboriginal stream grant review programme, served on the research ethics board at her university, and is a Senator at Ryerson University.
CONTACT US
Email: migs@mcmaster.ca
