jlgreen@uvic.ca
Social Worker
Project Manager at Indigenous Child Well-Being Research Net work (ICWRN)
Director and associate professor at UVIC’s School of Social Work
Areas of Interest:
- Aboriginal Health
- Research that involves building on and enhancing cultural traditions
Highlighted work:
Dr. Green is a project manager for the ICWRN, a network that strives to provide cultural knowledge, research, and care practices from an indigenous perspective. They provide research training to different communities based on the community’s cultural world views by meeting with community’s cultural world views by meeting with elders, community members and youth to devise a training program together. A cornerstone of the program is the concept that the research and knowledge collected must benefit the community it originated from – all published works are conducted in collaboration with the community
Opportunities for involvement:
- Mentorship
- Dr Green is interested in connected with students who are continuing to broaden the indigenous perspective to research, scholarship and practice