Balance Co-Lab
The purpose of The Balance Co-Lab: Collaboration for Sustainable Communities is to advance Indigenous self-determination, community capacity and well-being. It brings community- and university-based partners together to co-create knowledge and resources for developing decision support and impact assessment systems aligned with and informed by Indigenous knowledge and values. It is a SSHRC research-funded Partnership Grant hosted at UVic. Partners include 7 Indigenous Nations/organizations, including New Relationship Trust, and 24 university-based researchers across 5 universities and 13 research units.
This 7-year project is funded through a SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council) Partnership Grant.
Balance Co-Lab is led by Program Director, Matt Murphy at the Peter B. Gustavson School of Business, Co-Director, Johnny Mack at the Peter A. Allard School of Law, UBC and Co-Director, Emily Salmon at the Beedie School of Business, SFU.
Our team includes Catherine Schafers, Program Manager and research fellows, Justine Keefer (PhD student, Environmental Studies), Sydney Wanchulak (MBA student at Gustavson), and Tricia Thomas (Assistant Professor, Gustavson).