Our approach

Our group uses fundamentally interdisciplinary approaches in order to create knowledge and solutions that comprehensively improve mobility rehabilitation outcomes. Our projects range from bench research and novel technology development, to direct clinical interventions, to community collaboration and support.

We seek to enable community participation across a range of environments, support efficient transitions from hospital to home, and enable Indigenously-situated rehabilitation contexts.

Within our larger group, four dedicated teams ensure that each project we undertake is supported by, and benefits from, our four guiding approaches:

Two-Eyed Seeing

We seek to support the exploration of problems and solutions using an Indigenous lens where Western and Indigenous science can be harmoniously and respectfully applied to create better knowledge and practices for First Nations and all Canadian people.

Mixed-methods triangulation

We seek to identify meaningful stakeholders and questions through community consultations, using model- and data-driven frameworks to inform actions based on stakeholders’ needs, and adaptively improving through learning.

Implementation science

We work to ensure that from the start, a project will be able to effectively translate promising interventions through communities of practice.

Policy

We work to ensure that, from the original design, policy objectives are defined, metrics to measure those outcomes are specified, and a data management policy and strategy for collecting those metrics is outlined. From our research, we will provide policy briefs to governments and agencies in support of effecting positive, system-wide impact.