Desjardins Chair in Small Community Development holder
Abitibi-Témiscamingue Observatory Director
Director of the School of Indigenous Studies

• Indigenous Matters
• Small Community Development
• Social forestry
• Northern development
• Forest ecology
• Paleoecology
• Climate change
• Forest fires
• Ethics of research with Indigenous peoples
• Land and resource development and governance

Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Women's Issues holder
Research Laboratory on Indigenous Women’s Issues – Mikwatisiw

• Indigenous women (regnancy, childbirth, midwives, obstetric violence, imposed sterilizations)
• Indigenous peoples (First Nations and Inuit)
• Governance and territory
• Northern development
• Environmental issues and Consultation
• Ethics of research with Indigenous peoples
• Cultural anthropology

• Indigenous matters
• Indigenous rights
• Indigenous legal traditions
• Constitutional law
• Environmental law
• History of Indigenous peoples
• History of Canada and Québec
• History of religion
• History of law

• Indigenous Employability
• Culturally Relevant Training
• Cultural Diversity
• Organizational Psychology
• Organizational Management in Indigeous Contexts
• Natural Resource Management
• Sustainable Development
• Environmental Economics
• Mining Industry
• Certification

Participatory Mapping Laboratory

• Indigenous studies
• Land issues
• Indigenous knowledge
• Customary rights
• Coexistence

Participatory Mapping Laboratory

• Cognitive Development in Children
• Pediatric Neuropsychology
• Social Intervention
• Mental Health

Participatory Mapping Laboratory

• Natural Resource Management
• Territorial Governance
• Forest Ecology
• Cree Traditional Knowledge
• Wildlife Conservation

Director of the School of Indigenous Studies module

• Social anthropology and ethnohistory
• Inuit, First Nations, and Métis
• Human–animal relationships (dogs in Inuit communities)
• Inuit postsecondary education
• Impacts of mine development on Northern communities
• Inuit traditional knowledge (Inuit qaujimajatuqangit)
• Decolonization of education

• Indigenous issues
• Indigenous health
• Food security and food sovereignty
• Territorial governance
• Cultural safety
• Oral history
• Decoloniality
• Ethnography
• Indigenous Epistemologies and Research Methodologies

• Governance
• Indigenous Leadership
• Decision-Making in Indigenous Contexts
• Indigenous Economic Development

• Mathematics education
• Development and analysis of teaching practices for pedagogical intervention in math
• On-the-job training
• Professional skill development in initial training

• Indigenous Education
• Managing Indigenous Education
• Integration of Indigenous perspectives in education (all levels)
• Organizational decolonization (school, school service centre, college, university, etc.) and institutional decolonization (education)
• Indigenization of Education (all levels)

• Education in Indigenous Contexts
• Support in Practical Training
• Language Didactics
• Assessment for Learning
• Professional Learning Communities in Education

• Decolonization of education
• Role and aims of community schools
• School curriculum development
• Support for learning and developing a mother tongue language

• First Nations and Inuit
• Distance learning
• Use of technology in education
• Coaching in hands-on instruction
• Teacher induction
• Motivation

• Role and aims of community schools
• School curriculum development
• Support for learning and developing a mother tongue language

• Coordination of activities in Indigenous contexts
• Support for Indigenous students throughout the internship process
• Intercultural Communication

• Coordination of activities in Indigenous contexts
• Intercultural Communication

• Support for Indigenous students
• Communication, intervention, and project management in Indigenous contexts
• Organizational and human resources management
• OHS: Focus on psychosocial dimensions

• Intercultural Communication
• Support for Inuit students from the start of their studies to graduation

• Applied hydrogeology and integrated aquifer characterization
• Hydrogeological mapping

• Land and resource development and governance
• Groundwater protection

• Plant biodiversity, bryophytes, and spruce-moss dynamics
• Partnership with communities

• Inclusion/exclusion
• Marginalization/deviance
• Mental health
• Employability/social integration
• Citizenship
• Employment
• Indigenous Matters
• Social housing
• Alternative practices in mental health
• Action research
• Homelessness
• Social marginalization

• Youth Protection
• Childhood and Family
• Parent-Child Attachment Relationship
• Post-Traumatic Intervention
• Intervention with Indigenous Clients
• Promotion of Mental Health and Suicide Prevention

• Pandemic – COVID-19
• Indigenous Matters
• Men’s Health
• Help-seeking
• Masculinity
• Gender
• Social Work and Health
• Psychosocial consequences of natural disasters
• HIV/AIDS
• Social Representations
• Interprofessional collaboration in healthcare
• Sociocultural aspects of health

• Social and Cultural Anthropology
• Decolonization of Schooling
• Indigenous Education and Pedagogies
• Maternity and Women’s Health
• Indigenous Realities
• Indigenous Urbanity
• Valuing Indigenous perspectives and knowledge

• History of Indigenous education
• Decolonization of education

• Education
• Indigenous cultures and realities
• Cultural Safety
• Relationships and communication between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Peoples

• First Peoples Service
• Relation and partnership development

• Pedagogical support for faculty members working with Indigenous students
• Support for teaching Indigenous realities and perspectives to all students

• Indigenous/decolonial geographies
• Critical anthropology
• Critical discourse analysis
• Decolonial methodologies
• Canadian studies and Indigenous studies
• History of social movements, feminisms, anti-racist and Indigenous movements

• Indigenous Education
• Cognitive efficiency
• Continuing Education
• Indigenous realities
• Support to education for Indigenous students
• Valuing Indigenous perspectives in teaching

• Forced sterilizations, obstetric and gynecological violence in Indigenous contexts
• Discrimination in healthcare and in the exercise of free and informed consent among First Nations and Inuit women in Quebec and Canada.
• Investigation reports by the Québec Coroner’s Office regarding the Indigenous population
• Suicide in Indigenous contexts
• Theories of critical criminology applied to Indigenous issues

• Indigenous Education
• Continuing education specific to Indigenous realities
• Health and wellness in Indigenous contexts
• Cultural Security
• Support for teaching Indigenous students
• Valuing Indigenous perspectives in teaching
• Realities in Nunavik

• Social work
• Health and social services
• Youth protection
• Decolonising criminology and rehabilitation in Indigenous contexts
• Intervention in Indigenous contexts
• Traditional healing in intervention
• Holistic approaches to intervention
• Assessment of social functioning
• Justice
• Indigenous realities
• Decolonization
• Access to services for Indigenous peoples
• Assessment of suicide and homicide risk
• Mental health and well-being in Indigenous contextsk
• Supervision and clinical support in frontline Indigenous services
• Indigenous homelessness
• Trauma-informed care
• Individual development
• Intervention with families (Indigenous and non-Indigenous)

• Social work
• Health and social services
• Youth protection
• Counselling in Indigenous context
• Holistic vision
• Cultural security
• Mental health
• Assessment of social functioning
• Suicide risk assessment
• Sexual and gender diversity and Two-Spirit identity

• Continuing education specific to Indigenous issues
• Valuing Indigenous knowledge
• Awareness of Indigenous issues
• Education and decolonization of knowledge
• Liaison between Indigenous and non-Indigenous organizations

• Continuing education and coordination
• Awareness of Indigenous issues and realities
• Indigenous governance
• Project management
• Liaison between Indigenous and non-Indigenous organizations
• Management in Indigenous contexts
• Awareness on residential schools and their impacts

• Project development in Indigenous contexts

• Psychosocial intervention in Indigenous contexts
• Student life facilitation

• Pedagogical support in Indigenous contexts