Transforming Indigenous research: Collaborative responses to historical research tensions

"co-conspiratorial work", which involves reciprocal learning with
Indigenous peoples." (p. 145)

Focus groups (talk story), one-to-one interviews (structured, semi-structured, unstructured or general), online interviews or a general questionnaire.
Narrative

Talk Story (p. 154) – considered more culturally appropriate and deep than semi-structured interviews

Strengths-enhancing evaluation research (SEER)

This article looks at the challenges and tensions between Indigenous and non-Indigenous researchers. The author includes a discussion of Indigenous and allied "co-conspirator" partnerships and offers the example of strengths-enhancing evaluation research (SEER) as a research model. SEER was designed for collaboration between Indigenous and non-Indigenous researchers and provides guidelines on building and sustaining relationships.

Local Specific Cultural Protocol
Collaboration
Relationship – Guidelines (p. 155): Behaviour, Mindset, Reflexivity
Guesthood p. 150-1, 154
Cultural Safety

"Disrupting the foundations of social and behavioural sciences that inform fields like social work requires challenging dominant processes of inquiry and building relationships with the very people we are to serve, a process that includes understanding access to communities and cultural protocols." (p. 148)

Storytelling
Visual and Oral (audio) recording of 'interviews'
Questionnaires, Archival records, observations (dedicated observation, participant–observer, or observer–participant)

SEER handbook created by Paula Morelli and Peter J. Mataira
Histograms, mapping, modelling and videography

"Research must continually be reframed as a influential means to mobilise and reempower Indigenous people by resetting the gaze, providing "empirical tools" for validating Indigenous realities, and supporting socio-political narratives that emerge from the research. Such a commitment offers alternatives to Western paradigms
while rejecting ethnocentrism and racism." (p. 150)

"In these projects, research outcomes are as much about relationships and process as they are about method; as much about rapport as about
data; and as much about timing as about contractual commitments or scope of study. These are projects that simultaneously address colonisation, learn from Indigenous communities to transform science and collaboratively develop research guidelines with long-term impacts." (p. 150)

"One advantage of storytelling as a method is the positioning of those being researched (in their capacity as participant insiders) as the authorities whose experiences guide and modify the research process. Granted that programme evaluations are principally a search for its "worth", I posit that storytelling is a universal practice that can incorporate and comprehend what worth means on multiple levels. Storytelling is an essential protective factor in the preservation of human well-being." (p. 157)

Social Work
Social Work Education
Indigenous Studies