Jennifer Leason

Effective teaching is about creating a supportive learning community, transforming our understanding and planting the seeds that will continue to grow and flourish.

Expertise

  • Indigenous Peoples Health & Wellness
  • Indigenous Maternal-Child & Reproductive Health
  • Population & Public Health: Epidemiology
  • Social Determinants of Health & Wellness
  • Maternal-Child & Reproductive Health
  • Indigenous Maternity Experiences
  • Medical Anthropology & Ethno-obstetrics/ Ethno-Medicine
  • Socio-Cultural Anthropology: Ethnographic Research
  • Health & Gender: Gender Based Analysis (GBA+)
  • Indigenous Feminist Perspectives
  • Community Based Participatory Action Research & Appreciative Inquiry
  • Interdisciplinary Research Methods & Theoretical Constructs
  • Indigenous Traditional Knowledge Systems

 
  • Saulteaux-Anishinaabemowiin Language, Epistemologies, Oral Literature
  • Decolonizing institutions & Research
  • Storytelling as research method
  • Knowledge Translation (KT) in health research
  • Land-based cultural practices
  • Indigenous Land Based Arts

Teaching Philosophy

How I Teach

Working With Students

  • Graduate Students Supervised

    I mentor graduate students in their course work, through projects in community, and in their applications for grants and awards. I teach graduate students Indigenous and decolonized methodologies in community-based research.

  • Graduate Student Committees

    I was part of a committee responsible for supporting these students as they conducted their research and prepared to defend it.

Education for Reconciliation

I have created experiential learning curriculum to put reconciliation into practice for universities; health networks; advisory committees; workplace teams; First Nation community schools; as well as seminars and conferences for health professionals and administrators.

In my Reconcili-Action Planning workshop I walk participants through an experiential learning exercise aimed at enhancing intercultural capacity, understanding, empathy and respect for the immediate and inter-/trans-generational impacts on Indigenous peoples’ health.

I also deliver workshops for Councils, Communities and Schools to help build capacity for community-based delivery of health services. Some of these have included:

  • What is Injury Prevention and Surveillance?
  • Injury Surveillance and Population/Public Health training.
  • Meenunyaaka: Anishinaabek Spirit Paint.
  • Supporting Two-Spirited Transgender Children, Youth and Families
  • Data analysis for monitoring health-related statistical trends
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