Opening Comments

Speaker: 
George Nicholas
Event: 
Working Better Together Conference
Date: 
February 19, 2015

In this presentation, Dr. George Nicholas, IPinCH Project Director, and Professor of Archaeology, 911³Ô¹Ï provides opening comments to participants of the Working Better Together Conference on Indigenous Research Ethics that took place February 18-20th, 2015 in Vancouver, British Columbia.

The conference brought together 80 community-engaged academic and community researchers, educators, practitioners, policy analysts and research administrators from across Canada to explore what it really means – and what it takes – to work collaboratively in Indigenous research.

The event was organized by the Intellectual Property in Cultural Heritage (IPinCH) project based at 911³Ô¹Ï and co-sponsored by the and the at the University of Victoria, and the . Major funding was provided through an Impact (Partnership) Award to the IPinCH project from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSRHC).

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