Research and Projects
Public-facing research grounded in relationship, story, and community direction.
Blue Sky Research Lab’s projects emerge through collaboration, accountability, and the ongoing work of braiding Indigenous and Western knowledges. Some are long-term research initiatives, some are creative public-facing works, and some take shape through story, teaching, and community-based engagement.
How Projects Take Shape
Projects within Blue Sky Research Lab are not isolated outputs. They are shaped by relationships with community, the needs and responsibilities that emerge through those relationships, and the broader commitments that guide the lab’s work. Some projects become podcasts or public resources, while others live through teaching, collaboration, fieldwork, or evolving research partnerships.
What connects them is not format alone, but a shared commitment to accountability, Indigenous futures, and research that remains meaningful beyond the university.
Featured Project
The Auntie Is In
The Auntie Is In podcast is a living intellectual tradition rooted in Nêhiyawak thought, story, lived experience, and layered narrative methodology. It highlights resonances and dissonances between Indigenous and Western pedagogies while making knowledge accessible in a public-facing format.
Current Project Areas
Podcast and Storywork
Projects that make knowledge accessible through public-facing narrative, conversation, and story-based formats.
Land-Based and Community Research
Work grounded in place, relationship, and collaboration with communities whose priorities help shape both research process and direction.
Knowledge Mobilization
Resources, events, educational materials, and public-facing outputs designed to move knowledge in useful and accountable ways.
Research in Motion
Not every project takes the same form, and not every part of the work belongs on the public website. Some projects are still developing through collaboration, community direction, or relationship-building. Others may only become public in part, or through carefully chosen formats that reflect what can be shared well and responsibly.
This page offers a public-facing view of the work in motion, while recognizing that some knowledge remains relational, contextual, and not fully visible online.
Related Pages
Learn more about the people, relationships, and public resources that shape the lab’s broader research practice.