Marshall's Two-Eyed Seeing in community-engaged health research - Two-way research frameworks, double hermeneutics, and meaningful collaborations in Indigenous health spaces

Marshall's Two-Eyed Seeing in community-engaged health research - Two-way research frameworks, double hermeneutics, and meaningful collaborations in Indigenous health spaces
Marshall's Two-Eyed Seeing in community-engaged health research - Two-way research frameworks, double hermeneutics, and meaningful collaborations in Indigenous health spaces
Principal speaker

Richard Violette

Introduced by Albert and Murdena Marshall, Mi'kmaq Elders from Unama'ki (the lands now known as Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada), Two-Eyed Seeing is a framework which aims to bring together Indigenous and non-Indigenous worldviews in a collaborative and equitable approach to research. Etuaptmumk, the Mi'kmaw word for Two-Eyed Seeing means "to see from one eye with the strengths of Indigenous ways of knowing, and to see from the other eye with the strengths of Western ways of knowing, and to use both of these eyes together for the benefit of all".

Particularly relevant for health research, Two-Eyed Seeing provides a framework through which researchers and communities can respectfully engage with the different ways of seeing, knowing, and being healthy. By weaving a shared perspective where all viewpoints are equally valued (rather than integrated), Two-Eyed-Seeing explicitly carves out essential spaces to enhance self-determination, sovereignty, and governance for communities who chose to be involved in research collaborations.

However, translating the framework to demonstrable actions remains an important challenge for researchers. This seminar presents an example of how the six guiding principles of Two-Eyed Seeing (authentic relationships; reciprocity; relational accountability; Indigenous involvement; privileging Indigenous ways of knowing, being, and doing; and deferring to Indigenous leadership across the project cycle) can be operationalized to shape a scaffold upon which meaningful research partnerships can be built.

Developed collaboratively with my mentors Kerry Hall (Kuku Yalanji and Lama Lama) and Michael Connolly (Kullilla and Muruwari), our proposed research design demonstrates how researchers and communities can purposefully plan equitable, collaborative, and truly meaningful community-engaged research in Indigenous health spaces.

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  • Location Venue to be advised upon registration plus online | Nathan campus
  • Time 10.00 am to 12.00 pm
  • date Wednesday 3 August 2022