Caroline Tait

Caroline Tait is a professor in the Faculty of Social Work for the Cumming School of Medicine at the University of Calgary. She holds a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Health Equity and Inclusion. Her program of research is community-based, highly applied and critical of historical and present-day discrimination and oppression. The focus of this work: 1) addresses structural racism that contributes and perpetuates inequities experienced by First Nations, Métis, and Inuit (FNMI) peoples across the human service sector (health, social welfare, justice, education); 2) entrenches distinctive FNMI research and data sovereignty rights in institutional research and knowledge translation (KT) mandates, including facilitating greater access for FNMI community stakeholders, students, and researchers to research resources and opportunities; 3) supports FNMI leadership, self-determination, and capacity building in research at local, regional and national levels; 4) advances theoretical understanding of the political economy of social suffering, and Indigenous resilience and resistance as transformative societal change; and 5) identifies with FNMI community partners, and novel, practical, timely and impactful forms of KT.