Centre for Indigenous Educational Research

Welcome to the Centre for Indigenous Educational Research

The Centre for Indigenous Educational Research (CIER) is designed to foster Indigenous resurgence and strengthen an Indigenous presence in research practices, but more specifically within Indigenous educational research contexts. The Centre provides a safe and supportive research environment linking Indigenous communities and the university. It serves to promote and support culturally aligned methodologies and theoretical approaches to Indigenous educational research. It also seeks to establish and promote place-specific ethics and protocols that guide the work in Indigenous and non-Indigenous research collaborations and the ways researchers work with Indigenous communities.

The Centre is informed by the ethics of Relationality, Land, and Indigenous Resurgence.  We host speaker series events sharing the work of BIPOC students, faculty, and guest speakers in engagement with these ethics, and special events spanning themes of art, advocacy, language revitalization, land-based knowledges, and community-led justice initiatives both locally and globally. We also host various relationship-building and skill-building workshops and events in-person and virtually throughout the year.

We welcome collaborations with students, community members, faculty, educators, and staff in engagement with these ethics and themes - please reach out with any questions or ideas, or to get on our mailing list, at cier.oise@utoronto.ca. We look forward to connecting with you!