Dr. Caroline Tait
Positions
Professor
Faculty of Social Work, Calgary Campus
Indigenous Lead, Indigenous Platform, Canadian Donation and Transplantation Research Program
University of Alberta
Professor
Cumming School of Medicine, Department of Community Health Sciences
Child Health & Wellness Researcher
Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute
Contact information
Web presence
Phone number
Cell: 306.280.4968
Office: 403.220.6857
Location
Office: MacKimmie MK302
For media enquiries, contact
Don McSwiney
Office: +1.403.220.7083
Email: dmcswine@ucalgary.ca
Twitter: @UCalgary_FSW
Background
Educational Background
PhD Medical Anthropology, McGill University, 2003
Research
Areas of Research
My program of research is community-based, highly applied and critical of historical and present-day discrimination and oppression. The focus of this work: 1) addresses structural racism that contributes and perpetuates inequities experienced by First Nations, Métis, and Inuit (FNMI) peoples across the human service sector (health, social welfare, justice, education); 2) entrenches distinctive FNMI research and data sovereignty rights in institutional research and knowledge translation (KT) mandates, including facilitating greater access for FNMI community stakeholders, students, and researchers to research resources and opportunities; 3) supports FNMI leadership, self-determination, and capacity building in research at local, regional and national levels; 4) advances theoretical understanding of the political economy of social suffering, and Indigenous resilience and resistance as transformative societal change; and 5) identifies with FNMI community partners, and novel, practical, timely and impactful forms of KT.
Participation in university strategic initiatives
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