The International Institute for Qualitative Methodology (IIQM) is an interdisciplinary institute based at the University of Alberta, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, but serving qualitative researchers around the world. IIQM was founded in 1998, with the primary goal of facilitating the development of qualitative research methods across a wide variety of academic disciplines.
Today, IIQM is re-focusing its efforts on change-oriented qualitative research, especially through intersectional, interdisciplinary, and community-engaged approaches. Please continue to visit our site for updates on opportunities.
The story-based, multi-method DARA project explored the experiences and perspectives of researchers at the University of Alberta who understand their work as decolonizing. Recognizing the ongoing disconnect between institutional rhetoric and the lived experiences of researchers, the DARA project gathered the insights of 33 researchers (one-third of whom were Indigenous) across 12 faculties. The report focuses on their understandings of what ‘decolonization’ is and is not, their journeys to practicing decolonial and Indigenous scholarship, the challenges and joys of doing so, and changes needed to more fully support this work. We see the recommendations outlined in this report as central to the creation of a decolonized research institution. Read the report.