Outsider Research in Social Work: Thoughts, Challenges, Experience
Theses
Author/Creator
Helen Lynn Bzdel
Description
Social Work Thesis (M.S.W.)--University of Regina, 2012.
Combining Indigenous and western knowledge to better understand the Greenland Shark from the Baffin Island area.
Examines a collaborative effort by Indigenous graduate students and non-Indigenous professors on Indigenous community research.
Authors discuss the possibilities and limitations inherent in their use of Métissage—assemblage through mixing, blending—as a research method in their PhD studies.
Argues that compensation should be integrated into the research phase of project rather than after completion. The article gives the example of a participatory research project conducted in Ecuador.