As part of our ongoing Making it Work project, our team asked ourselves “what can allyship look like in the context of research?”
We shared our thoughts and reflections in our commentary, Making Allyship Work: Allyship Perspectives in a Community-Based Research Study, published in the 11th edition of the Journal of Indigenous HIV Research (learn more about the JIHR here); the 11th edition of the JIHR’s theme was “allyship”.
Making it Work is an Indigenous-focused, community-based research project in British Columbia co-led by the AHA Centre at CAAN and PAN. With guidance from people with lived and living experiences on the research team, this study explores why community services work well for people, with a particular focus on case management and community development programs and services that use Indigenous service delivery models.
Some of the topics discussed within the commentary include:
- Relationship building
- Undertaking self-education and awareness while mutually supporting capacity bridging
- Engaging and respecting different experiences
We believe this commentary may be helpful for teams who are considering how to collaborate within their research in a good way and work toward building allyship. We encourage others to check out the commentary and all of the articles in the 11th edition of the JIHR to learn more and engage on this topic.
We also want to acknowledge that the JIHR is published by the AHA Centre at CAAN and that the 11th edition of the JIHR was published as part of a collaboration between the AHA Centre and REACH Nexus.
This post was prepared for PAN’s Research and Evaluation Treehouse by Madeline Gallard
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Joanna Mendell, Director of Research and Evaluation
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