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
October 23 – CQ Seminar by Dr. Tola Mbulaheni
The Centre for Critical Qualitative Health Research (CQ) is pleased to invite you to join us on October 23, 2026 for a CQ Public Seminar with Dr. Tola Mbulaheni. This hybrid event welcomes participants to join in person or online. Light refreshments will be served for those attending in person.
Event Details
Seminar Speaker: Dr. Tola Mbulaheni
Title: Storying Black life: A critical race narrative methodology for social research on health and well-being
Date and Time: October 23, 2026 | 12pm to 1.30pm (EST)
Venue: (In-person) NUR 270, 155 College St, Health Sciences Building (Doors open at 11.30am); Online (Zoom)
Register here. If you are attending in person, please select the “in-person” ticket option. If you are attending online, please select the “online” ticket option. Click here for the full event description!
November 20 – CQ Seminar by PhD Candidate Hannah Ali
The Centre for Critical Qualitative Health Research (CQ) is pleased to invite you to join us on November 20, 2026, for a CQ Public Seminar with PhD Candidate Hannah Ali. This hybrid event welcomes participants to join in person or online. Light refreshments will be served for those attending in person.
Event Details
Seminar Speaker: PhD Candidate Hannah Ali
Title: An Ethnography for the Streets: When Community Research Returns to the Streets
Date and Time: November 20, 2026 | 12pm to 1.30pm (EST)
Venue: (In-person) HS 507, 155 College St (Doors open at 11.30am); Online (Zoom)
Register here. If you are attending in person, please select the “in-person” ticket option. If you are attending online, please select the “online” ticket option. Stay tuned for the full event description!
Past Seminars in this Series
Jun 5 – Method as Encounter
March 20 – Kwentuhan
February 6 – Dr. Bernice Yanful
