Dear friends and colleagues, 

Just a friendly reminder about our upcoming MSR Research Webinar, "Embracing an Indigen/ous/ist Paradigm: Research as an Interface Journey," taking place on March 26. If you haven't registered yet, we warmly invite you to join this gathering of exchange with members of our Elders Circle and Peer Circle. Please feel free to share the invitation with colleagues, students, or members of your research team who might enjoy being part of the conversation. 👏🌟

🌿 MSR Research Webinar Series

Embracing an Indigen/ous/ist Paradigm: Research as an Interface Journey

🗓 Thursday, March 26

⏰ 8:00–9:30pm GMT | 4:00–5:30pm ET

Hosted by: Naida Culshaw & the MSR Research Committee

🔗 Register here:

Embracing an Indigen/ous/ist paradigm: Research as an Interface Journey

✨ Summary

Exploring research as relational practice - and what it means to be a researcher at the interface of Indigenous and institutional worlds.

 

🌱 Overview

Join us for an interactive online gathering exploring research as relational practice, grounded in accountability, reciprocity, and intergenerational presencing. Together, we'll reflect on ceremony, ethical tensions around consent, and what it means to show up as a researcher at the interface of Indigenous and institutional worlds.

The conversation builds on the dialogue initiated in Ramya Venkateswaran's 2025 MSR webinar, "Ways of Knowing in Indigenous Traditions Across the World," and will open with a brief framing exchange between Ramya and Naida.

Ana Maria Peredo, Ella Henry and Joseph Galdstone (Elders Circle), along with Stephanie Daher, Peter Musinguzi, and Daysha Tonumaipe'a (Peer Circle), will share their lived experiences of "research at the interface" - that generative space of encounter (and sometimes friction) between what is legible to the academy and what is accountable to community.

 

👥 Who Should Attend?

Whether you're arriving with years of experience or just beginning to sense what this paradigm makes possible, you are warmly welcome. If you're encountering Indigen/ous/ist research for the first time - or if you're already engaging Indigenous, decolonial, participatory, or action research approaches - this space is for you. And if you're experienced and seeking thoughtful community, we warmly invite you to bring your voice into the dialogue.

 

💭 Why Attend?

If you're navigating (or anticipating) the interface between Indigenous commitments and institutional expectations - and you're looking for a space that honours relationship, protocol, and responsibility - this session is for you.

 

🌍 See you on March 26 (or March 27, depending on where you are in the world)!

View various time zones for this session.

 

MSR Research Committee

(Tianyuan Yu, Naida Culshaw, Stacey Guenther, Konstantin Weicht, and Gaëtan Mourmant)

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Tianyuan Yu, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Mount Saint Vincent University
Halifax NS Canada

Representative-at-Large (Research)
Management, Spirituality & Religion Division, Academy of Management
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