Research Projects


Centering Indigenous Women’s Wellness Governance in the Academy: Interrupting Hyperproductivity Burnout

Research team: Cindy Gaudet, Tricia McGuire-Adams, Lana Whiskeyjack

Project funded by the SSHRC Insight Grant program (2022-2025)

Research team: Cindy Gaudet, Jennifer Ward, and Tricia McGuire-Adams.

Indigenous Women in the Academy During the Time of Reconciliation

Funded by KULE Dialogue, University of Alberta (2019)

Dreaming Our Codes of Wellness into Being

Research team: Lana Whiskeyjack, Jennifer Ward, Tricia McGuire-Adams and Cindy Gaudet

Funded by University of Alberta Vice President Research Fund, Campus Saint-Jean and Faculty of Extension (2020)

Lii Vyeu Bellevue: Histoires, Savoir, Souvenirs et Peuples.

Mettre en lumière l'auto-souveraineté et la perspective des familles Métis.

Research team: Cindy Gaudet, Paul Gareau, Nicole Roy (RA), and Alice Gaudet (Bellevue Archivist).

Project part of the Canada Research Chair program (2020 and ongoing)



Mamâhtâwihew: Returning to Métis and Cree Aunties’ and Kokum’s wisdom in response to the calls for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

UAlberta-ATA Research Collaboration Grant

Research Team: Drs. Cindy Gaudet, and Trudy Cardinal (Associate Professor, Education)


Project funded by Kule Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS) (December 2020 and ongoing)



Resurgent Foundation(s) within Settler Colonial Walls? Indigenous- Led Inquiry of Mandatory Indigenous Courses

Research team: Cindy Gaudet, Tricia McGuire-Adams, Jana-Rae Yerxa


Funded by the Racial Equity Special Grants program through the Spencer Foundation (2022-2025)



Métis Women’s Sovereignty in the South Saskatchewan River Region

Joint Alberta-Saskatchewan University Research Collaboration Grant program.

Co-Leads: Drs. Cheryl Troupe and Cindy Gaudet.

Project funded by Kule Institute for Advanced Study and the College of Arts & Science (September 2020 and ongoing)


Left to right: Dr. Michael Robidoux, Anthony Chum (local food developper Moose Cree FN, Cindy Gaudet & Celeste Ferreira (UofO student)

Fostering Land Based Food Initiatives as a Local Food Security Strategy in Northern Indigenous Communities in Canada

Project lead: Dr. Michael Robidoux, University of Ottawa

Research team: Drs. Cindy Gaudet, Courtney Mason and Research Assistants.

Project funded by SSHRC (2018-2023)