Community Collaborators
Blue Sky Research Lab’s work is shaped by collaboration with community members, Knowledge Keepers, family, and partners whose relationships, priorities, and lived experience give the work meaning. These collaborations are not secondary to research. They are central to how the work is carried.
Why Collaboration Matters
Community collaboration helps ensure that research remains accountable, grounded, and responsive to the people and places it touches. It brings lived experience, cultural Knowledge, family relationship, and community direction into the work in ways that challenge extractive or distant research models.
These relationships shape what is asked, what is shared, how Knowledge moves, and what responsibilities accompany the work. They are part of the ongoing practice of carrying research in a good way.
Community Collaborators
These profiles recognise the people whose guidance, experience, and presence help shape the relational life of Blue Sky Research Lab.
Luci Johnson
Chris Johnson
Kim Bruno
Carrying the Work Together
Community collaboration is not simply advisory. It is part of the living structure of the work. These relationships help the lab remain grounded in accountability, relationality, and the realities of community life beyond the university.
As projects develop, collaborators shape direction, context, and meaning in ways that strengthen both the process and the public-facing outcomes of research.
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