About Jennifer Dockstator

Dr. Jennifer Dockstator has led a passionate career working for Indigenous initiatives. Jennifer is the Vice President and Senior Research Associate of the Aboriginal Research Institute. Over the years, she has worked on a variety of projects with Trent University. Through Trent, Jennifer served as the Program Director for the National Centre for Collaboration in Indigenous Education (NCCIE), a five-year project highlighting Indigenous education initiatives across the country. In 2022, she was hired by Trent’s Office of Research & Innovation to write an Indigenous Research Guidebook for the university. Before that, Dr. Dockstator spent half a decade working with Eabametoong First Nation, a fly-in community in northern Ontario. She was involved in several community-driven initiatives from organizing and facilitating professional development workshops to co-coordinating a cultural tourism showcase, to name a few.

In 2014, Jennifer received her Ph.D in Environmental Studies at York University. The focus of her dissertation was Sustainability and Indigenous Knowledges. Currently, she is working with the Office of the Commissioner of Indigenous Languages on a number of projects that support the Commission’s efforts to maintain, strengthen, revitalize and reclaim Indigenous languages across Canada.

Publications

Dockstator, J.S. (2024). Professional Report. Naanaagidewendamig kinomaadiwin: Engaging and Learning in Knowledge – Reciprocity in Research with Indigenous Peoples – a navigational guide (to be available on Trent University’s website in 2025; 75 pp.)

Dockstator, J.S. with the National Centre for Collaboration in Indigenous Education (2022). Professional Report. Listen to Our Voices: Policy Insights for Strengthening Education with Indigenous Education, 61 pp. Available at: https://www.nccie.ca/.

Dockstator, J.S. (2022). Professional Report. A “Community First” Approach to Indigenous Research: The National Centre for Collaboration in Indigenous Education, 78 pp. Available at: https://www.nccie.ca/.

Dockstator, J.S., Denis, J., Wien, F., Duhaime, G., Dockstator, M., Newhouse, D., Wuttunee, W., Loppie, C., Loxley, J., Weir, W. Eabametoong First Nation, Misipawistik Cree First Nation, Opitciwan Atikamekw First Nation, Sipekne’katik First Nation, Tit’q’et First Nation, (2022). “Insights into Community Development in First Nations: A Poverty Action Research Project.” Journal of Aboriginal Economic Development, 12(2), pp. 81-108.

Dockstator, J.S., Eabametoong First Nation, Misipawistik Cree First Nation, Opitciwan Atikamekw First Nation, Sipekne’katik First Nation, Tit’q’et First Nation, Wien, F., Dockstator, M., Denis, J., Duhaime, G., Loppie, C., Newhouse, D., Wuttunee, W. (May 2021). “Insights into Community Development in First Nations: A Poverty Action Research Project.” Chapter 12 in: Sharing the Land, Sharing a Future: The Legacy of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, K. Graham and D. Newhouse, eds., (Winnipeg, University of Manitoba Press), 499 pp.

Wien, F., Denis, J., Dockstator, J.S., Dockstator, M.S., Duhaime, G., Loppie, C., Loxley, J., Moore, C., Newhouse, D., Weir, W., Whiteduck, J., Wuttunee, W. (April 2019). “First Nation paths to well-being: lessons from the Poverty Action Research Project. Global Health Promotion 26 (3), pp. 6-16. Available at: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1757975919831654.

Dockstator, J.S. and Thrasher, M. (2016). “Take care of ‘the land’ and ‘the land’ will take care of you:” Relationship-Building through an Introduction to Indigenous Holistic Thought. In: M. Hankard & J. Charlton, (eds), We still live here: First Nations, the Alberta oil sands, and surviving globalism. Vernon, BC: JCharlton Publishing, pp. 51-96.

Dockstator, J.S., Eabametoong First Nation, Misipawistik Cree First Nation, Opitciwan Atikamekw First Nation, Sipekne’katik First Nation, Tit’q’et First Nation, Duhaime, G., Loppie, C., Newhouse, D., Wien, F., Wuttunee, W., Denis, J., Dockstator, M. (Spring 2016). “Pursuing Mutually Beneficial Research: Insights from the Poverty Action Research Project.” Engaged Scholar Journal, 2(1), pp. 17-38.