Strategic Initiative Indigenous Grant

This grant is open to:

• Single or co-applicants who directly support student learning and the student experience at UVic (includes research and teaching stream faculty, sessional lecturers, laboratory instructors, and relevant academic and professional staff)
• Early-career academic professionals or those new to UVic are especially encouraged to apply 
• Previous grant recipients for any LTSI grant. If your grant is still active, you must submit obligations prior to applying for another grant.

Preference will be given to those with continued appointments. If you are a sessional instructor and you are designing/re-designing a course, we may also ask you and your Chair/Director to indicate that you are likely to teach the course again in the future. Note: You cannot apply to more than one LTSI grant in the same year for the same project.

Successful proposals will include:

• a clear specific statement of what the applicant would like to achieve
• a well-articulated plan for how to proceed and the principles that will guide the process
• a description of the proposed significance of the project in terms of contributions to teaching and student learning while improving or enhancing an understanding of Indigenous ways of knowing and being; deconstructing colonialism and decentering unequal colonial knowledge structures; and/or promoting the reconciliation of power relations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples
• a brief, targeted review of the literature that supports the plan
• a plan for sharing the project goals and outcomes to appropriate audiences
• a sustainable budget with justification for each item

It is recommended that you use this template to draft your proposal. Microsoft Forms does not allow you to save your work mid-application. Once you are ready, please go to the SI-I Grant Microsoft Form and copy and paste your answers. Save a copy of your draft proposal so you can send it to your Chair/Director for approval.

Download the application template.

Adjudicators will use a scoring rubric to assess your proposal, with rating scores ranging from 1.0 to 5.0.

Download the scoring rubric.

Besides the UVic Indigenous Plan, the following resources may be helpful in guiding how you frame your proposal:

• Alberta Regional Professional Development Consortium (nd). Weaving ways: Indigenous ways of knowing in classrooms and schools: An introductory guide. Retrieved on 9-16-2021.
• Allan, B., Perreault, A., Chenoweth, J., Biin, D., Hobenshield, S., Ormiston, T… & Wilson, J. (2018). Pulling together: A guide for teachers and instructors. Victoria, BC: BCcampus. Retrieved on 8-30-2021.
• Gaudry, A., & Lorenz, D. (2018). Indigenization as inclusion, reconciliation, and decolonization: Navigating the different visions for indigenizing the Canadian Academy. AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, 14(3), 218-227.

References

• Binda, K.P. and Caillou, S. (Eds) (2001). Aboriginal education in Canada: A study in decolonization. Mississauga, Canada: Canadian Educators’ Press.
• Pete, S., Schneider, B., and O’Reilly, K. (2013). Decolonizing Our Practice – Indigenizing Our Teaching. First Nations Perspectives, 5 (1), 99-115.
• University of Victoria (2017). Indigenous Plan

• Cheryl Aro, School of Social Work
  Integrating Local Indigenous Wisdom: Infusing Indigenous Knowledge into Social Work Courses on Campus ($4,000)
• Scott McIndoe, Department of Chemistry
  Indigenous knowledge – inspiring science ($7,500)
• Stephen Ross, Deparment of English
  Recovering Family Medicines – Celebrating the Great Mystery Together ($7,500)
• Bryan Silverman, School of Child and Youth Care
  Supporting the Continuing Indigenization of the CYFCS MA Program ($7,500)

• Jennifer Gruno, School of Exercise Science, Physical and Health Education
  Furthering our journey in de-centering colonial knowledge structures in Physical and Health Education Teacher Education (PHETE) [$4,104.30]
• Kim McLean-Fiander, Department of English
  Decolonizing and Indigenizing English 146: Contemporary Literature ($7,500)

• Gwendolyn Gosek, School of Social Work 
  Understanding mental health policy and practice from a decolonial and anti-oppressive perspective ($7,000) 
• Dawn Smith, Indigenous Governance 
  ĆȺ,I ȻENTOL ÁTOL (work together respectfully) ($7,500) 
• Suzanne Urbanczyk, Department of Linguistics 
  Developing a Professional Specialization Certificate in Indigenous Language Documentation and Revitalization ($7,441.50) 

• Douglas Stuart, Peter B. Gustavson School of Business
  Decolonizing the Financial Management Curriculum: Integrating Indigenous Perspectives into Taxation for Managers ($3,240)
• Pierre-Luc Landry, Department of French
  Teaching Indigenous Francophone Literatures in Canada and Beyond: De-Centering Lecture-Oriented Learning Strategies ($3,647)