We aim to encourage, promote, and facilitate engagement with Indigenous issues in our department, in alignment with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action.
Psychology Indigenous Initiatives Committee
The Indigenous Initiatives Committee (IIC) brings together faculty, students, and staff with an interest in developing and implementing new initiatives aligned with UBC’s Indigenous Strategic Plan.
- Benjamin Cheung (Indigenization Advisor to the EDI Committee, Faculty)
- Kalina Christoff Hadjiilieva (Faculty)
- Irein Thomas (Graduate student)
- Rebecca Todd (Chair, Faculty)
- Catharine Winstanley (Faculty)
- Sheila Woody (Faculty)
CINCH Events
Our committee is organizing a series of monthly events designed to Celebrate INdigenous Culture and History (CINCH). All department members are welcome! Please come along and join us as we explore Indigenous films, performances, activism, and literature.
CINCH Event Photos
On Native Land musical
Psychology department members and friends attend 'On Native Land' at the York Theatre.
The 35th Women's Memorial March
The Psychology community came together to honour the lives of MMIWG2S+. Photo: Catharine Winstanley
The 35th Women's Memorial March
The Psychology community came together to honour the lives of MMIWG2S+. Photo: Catharine Winstanley
News and Stories
Indigenous Learning
New to thinking about Indigenous issues and how to get started on your own Truth and Reconciliation journey?
Indigenous Learning Pathway
Indigenous Learning Pathways (ILP) is a self-directed, multi-course training that supports new staff and faculty to engage with resources on Indigenous-focused topics. Through a series of guided activities, reflections, and learning prompts, ILP orients learners to resources already available at UBC.
Weaving Relations
Weaving Relations is a self-directed course developed jointly by the Faculty of Applied Science and the Faculty of Land and Food Systems. It explores Indigenous histories, people, and contexts, as well as settler colonialism in Canada, through the lens of Indigenous-Canadian relationships.
IDEAL Certificate
IDEAL: Indigenous Design and Engagement in UBC Applied Science and Land and Food Systems is a certificate program that works towards deepening our collective consciousness in the context of settler colonialism, and the development of our shared commitments to a better future, through relational, experiential, and land-based learning.
IBPOC Resources
UBC’s Point Grey Campus is located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam) people. The land it is situated on has been a place of intergenerational learning for the Musqueam people from time immemorial.
