RENEWING RELATIONS: INDIGENOUS HERITAGE RIGHTS AND (RE)CONCILIATION IN NORTHWEST COAST CANADA

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Current research projects:
  • The Heritage and Future of Indigenous Rights within Settler-Colonial Commonwealth Nations in the Environmental Emergency. Funded by a Future Leaders Fellowship UKRI (MR/X034186/1). Prof Bryony Onciul PI, Prof Regan Early Co-I, PGRA Dr Sarah Forgesson, PGRA Dr Awhina Tamarapa. 2025-2029. 
  • ​The Future of Indigenous Rights and Responsibilities: Ancestral governance,
    environmental stewardship, language revival, and cultural vibrancy.
    Funded by the AHRC (AH/X00824X/1) and delivered in partnership with Kumugwe Cultural Society. Prof Bryony Onciul PI, Dr Awhina Tamarapa Co-I, Andy Everson Co-I, Keisha Everson Co-I, Wedlidi Speck Co-I. 2023-2025.

These projects have grown from a body of research. These are some of the previous research projects that pathed the way to my current work:
  • AHRC Research, Development and Engagement Fellowship Renewing Relations: Indigenous Heritage Rights and (Re)conciliation in Northwest Coast Canada. (AH/V013726/1) 2022-2024. Prof Bryony Onciul PI.
  • Welsh Government Agile Cymru Grant. Cultures and Communities: Mobilising our Shared Cultures and Histories for Community and Economic Development. PI Rhys Jones, Co-I Bryony Onciul, Co-I Arlene Crampsie, Co-I Einir Young, Co-I Keith Lilley. 2023-2024.
  • UBC-O UoE Joint Fellowship Award for Visiting Scholars, Prof Bryony Onciul and Prof Fiona McDonald UBC-O 2023.
  • Societies and Cultures Institute (SCI) Development Fund. The life and afterlife of extraction: exploring a practice of honouring kinship relations in the collecting, holding and disposing of past ecologies that story landscapes. PI Dr Tom Roland, Co-I Prof Bryony Onciul, Co-I Prof Nicola Thomas. 2022-2023
  • Exeter-UBC Humanities Collaboration Fund - Project Grants ‘Connecting Strands on Current Indigenous Realities in the Americas: an interdisciplinary workshop on traditional territories, extractivism and narratives of reconciliation in North and South America.’ With Co-Is Prof Marissa Lazzari UoE, Prof Virginie Magnat UBC, and Prof Karen Ragoonaden 2020-2022.
  • UBC-Exeter Fellowship Exeter-UBC Collaboration 2019/20 HUMS, FCCS & IKBSAS Fellowship. PI Prof Bryony Onciul 2020-2022.
  • UBC Eminence-Funded Culture, Creativity, Health and Well-Being Research Cluster Program Sub-grant for UK project Gifting together and giving back. 2019-2020
  • Internal Global Partnership funding. Bill Reid Gallery Reception and MA IHMaC Launch. Vancouver, Canada. 2019.
  • UBC Eminence funding. Culture, Creativity, Health and Well-Being Cluster. 2018-2021.
  • Wellcome Centre and UBC funding. Exploring the Cultural and Creative Dimensions of Health and Wellbeing through Arts-Based Transformative Engaged Research. 2018-2019.
  • Collaborative Doctoral Partnership with Historic England. Managing archaeological loss in the face of coastal change. PhD Tanya Venture. 2018-2024.
  • AHRC Follow-on funding for Impact and Engagement. Troubled Waters Reaching Out. AH/P00959X/1. 2017-2018.
  • Internal IIB Link funding to visit Haida Gwaii 2017.
  • AHRC Translating Cultures/Care for the Future Innovation Awards on International Development. Enduring Connections. AH/P007635/1. 2016-2018.
  • The Exchange Grant. Mulliontide with Artist Louise Ann Wilson and Golden Tree Productions 2016.
  • QR Funds for UK Chapter of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies event at University of Exeter Cornwall, 2016.
  • AHRC Care for the Future Early Careers Developmental Awards project Troubled Waters, Stormy Futures: Heritage in times of accelerated climate change. AH/M006263/1. 2015-2016.
  • AHRC Care for the Future Early Careers Developmental Awards project Apologies for Historical Wrongs: When, How, Why? AH/M006239/1. 2014-2015.
  • AHRC Care for the Future Early Career Research Workshop at the Royal Geographical Society in London, 2014.
  • AHRC Conference Funding Engaging Communities, 2009. 
  • AHRC PhD Research Funding 2006-2010.

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  • Home
  • Prof Bryony Onciul
    • Publications
    • Research Projects
    • Contact
  • Renewing Relations
    • Renewing Relations Project Partners
    • Footage for thought
    • Workshops
    • Renewing Relations Blog
  • FIRR: Future of Indigenous Rights and Responsibilities
    • Ancestral governance and environmental stewardship
    • Revitalising Language
    • Revitalising Culture
    • Aotearoa - Canada Cultural Exchange
    • Future of Indigenous Rights and Responsibilities Blog