The Centre for Critical Qualitative Health Research (CQ) hosts a public seminar series featuring leading and emerging scholars, practitioners, and community-engaged researchers working across qualitative health research traditions. Held during the Fall and Winter terms (typically twice per semester), these seminars provide a forum to exchange ideas, critically engage methodological debates, and reflect on the ethical, political, and practical dimensions of qualitative inquiry.
CQ seminars emphasize methodological rigor, theoretical depth, and relevance to real-world health and social inequities. They serve as valued opportunities for continuing education, collegial dialogue, and interdisciplinary networking among students, faculty, practitioners, and community partners. When possible, seminars are recorded and made publicly available to support broader access to methodological learning.
Recordings of past seminars can be found here under recorded presentations.
2026 Seminar Series: Research Justice as Praxis
The 2026 CQ Seminar Series, Research Justice as Praxis: Critical Qualitative Health Methodologies, explores how qualitative inquiry can act as a site of justice-oriented praxis. Across disciplines, researchers, students, and community partners are grappling with questions of power, representation, ethics, and meaning-making in health research. This series invites reflection on how critical qualitative methodologies—shaped by Indigenous, feminist, anti-racist, queer, Afrocentric, disability justice, and decolonial traditions—can challenge inequities and foster more relational, accountable, and transformative approaches to knowledge production.
Through talks, panels, and dialogues with scholars, practitioners, and community leaders, the series examines how research design, data generation, analysis, and representation can advance equity, dignity, and collective flourishing. CQ aims to create a collaborative space for shared learning within its community and to welcome scholars, students, and partners whose work resonates with these commitments.
Guiding questions for the series include:
- What does research justice mean within different methodological traditions and communities of practice?
- Whose knowledges shape the questions we ask, and how do power and positionality inform research design, analysis, and representation?
- How can justice-oriented qualitative methodologies support accountability, ethical engagement, and social change beyond “inclusion”?
Upcoming Seminar Schedule
February 6 – Dr. Bernice Yanful
