Knowledge Maker Outcomes

Knowledge Makers is a collaborative teaching initiative where Indigenous students learn how to research, and how to publish research, as Indigenous researchers. Based at Thompson Rivers University, we bring together up to 15 Indigenous undergraduate students each year from across the university to learn how to ‘make knowledge’ through a multi-modal approach.

Outcomes since 2015 include:

• Indigenous students from more than 30 bands and nations, have completed Indigenous interdisciplinary research mentoring and published their first reviewed journal article.
• Knowledge Makers Journal published articles.
• Knowledge Makers alumni include: Two national scholarships winners, SSHRC research grant ($50,000), 15 research assistants, six graduate research scholarships, four continued to masters, one international internship, two post-baccalaureate studies, one awarded a mainstream undergraduate research grant (TRU), two presented at the International Indigenous Research Conference (November 2018).
• Knowledge Makers Indigenous researcher mentoring circles established at undergraduate, graduate and doctoral level.
• Knowledge Makers five-nation international mobility network: Canada, United States, Mexico, New Zealand and Australia.