The THJRC brings together people with diverse perspectives across ages, genders, sexual identities, racialized identities, cultural heritage/backgrounds, abilities, socio-economic status, academic career stages, and formal educational attainment. Our cluster’s work shows how justice-involved individuals and Indigenous Peoples, as underserved communities, provide vital expertise for an equity oriented transformative research agenda. Since 2019, we’ve been working through an intentional, relational, and continuous process of inclusive excellence and commitment to mentorship. Our collective values and practices focus on redressing power inequities by dismantling knowledge hierarchies that persist within academy-community partnership, create barriers to meaningful participation, and research-driven positive social action. We remain committed to academic decolonization, guided by the THJRC Indigenous Elders and Peer Knowledge Holders as co-leads who also provide opening welcomes, ceremony, and territorial acknowledgement.
About Us
First Nations land acknowledegement
We acknowledge that the UBC Point Grey campus is situated on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm.