The Indigenous Futures Research Centre (IFRC) supports research that is led by and/or for Indigenous peoples and communities.
We are interested in responding to community-identified needs and dreams, and in growing the capacity of Indigenous researchers with the ability to conduct research in ways that are grounded in community knowledge, values and culture. We welcome all researchers, Indigenous and non-Indigenous, who engage in research that prioritizes the co-generation of knowledge that is of direct use to Indigenous peoples and our communities.
The Indigenous Futures Research Centre is an environment where Indigenous methods for knowledge recovery, discovery, and transmission are respected, and where faculty can learn different Indigenous research frameworks from one another while educating students in those methods.
Supporting a mix of research approaches, topics, and collaborations ranging across art - and technology - making, scholarly analysis, community collaboration, experimental pedagogy, and theoretical development, the IFRC aims to illuminate how the challenges of the present can be addressed, in part, through concrete, constructive, and critical dreams of the future.
