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- Colonial Injustices and Current Realities: University of Victoria Research Collective
Methodology: Emergent, Slow, and Rooted in Epistemic Humility
How can UVic hold itself accountable for its role in colonial dispossession and build pathways for institutional redress?
Our multidisciplinary team developed to consider injustice in relation to UVic. With a focus on colonialism, our commitment on themes, research priorities, and partnerships evolves organically from collective dialogue. Epistemic humility makes space for discomfort and recognizes the limits of our own knowledge. It enables relational accountability across differing research locations and orientations. Rather than definitive histories, we want space for difficult conversations about UVic’s past and future.
Acknowledging Place, Responsibility, and Support
Situated on Lək̓ʷəŋən and W̱SÁNEĆ territories, we commit to working in ethical ways with local Indigenous peoples, communities, and Knowledge Keepers, and continually reflect on, discuss, and engage in methods towards this end.
This research and related initiatives are generously supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), the Office of the Vice-President Indigenous (OVPI), UVic Libraries, Special Collections
and Archives, the Humanities Computing and Media Centre, and several departments and faculties.
Future Aspirations
Our collective seeks to create public-facing research, deepen Lək̓ʷəŋən and W̱SÁNEĆ partnerships, contribute to dialogues on institutional accountability in higher education, and encourage UVic to face its colonial past and present with integrity.
We don’t seek a single, conclusive history, but rather a university culture grounded in truth, redress, and relationship-building.
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