Collaborations

All Our Chemical Relations is a new, ambitious, collaborative research initiative aiming at fundamentally transform how chemical pollution and risk are managed by integrating Indigenous expertise. The project brings Indigenous research methods to the challenge of profoundly transforming chemical risk management in Indigenous community-based practice, university labs and classes, regulatory practices, and policy development. This large, inter-institutional research project brings together 20 researchers and collaborators from institutions in Canada and Aotearoa (New Zealand), putting Indigenous experts as leaders in designing how chemical risk is evaluated and managed. It is a six-year-long collaborative effort supported by $22 million through the federal New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF). Our project boldly sets out to change how chemical risk is managed in this urgent time of environmental change.

The lead PI for the overall project is Professor M. Murphy (Red River Métis) of School of Environment and WGSI at the University of Toronto, along with Professors Susan Chiblow (Garden River First Nation) of Guelph University, and Gunilla Öberg (originally from Sweden) of the University of British Columbia.

Photo: Shayenna Nolan