The Inuit Learning Lab (ILL) is a virtual space for Inuit students to engage with other Inuit post-secondary students, Inuit academics, researchers, and Elders and community leaders, and where Inuit ways of knowing and being are honored, Inuit expertise is emphasized, relationships are formed, and support is exchanged, often in Inuktitut, with the goal of advancing Inuit engagement in research. The Inuit Learning Lab holds space for Inuit students specifically, stands to increase student learning related to research, and potentially improve Inuit student educational experience.   

The ILL engages Inuit students in research and learning relevant to them and provides space to connect directly and intimately with invited Inuit academics, researchers, and Elders/community leaders (Invitees) from across Canada. Invitees will share insights, advice, and learnings related to research and learning, and where suitable, also offer opportunities for meaningful involvement in research (and other) projects. 

 We aim to ensure this group is empowering, and relationships with Invitees will result in community research partnerships, collaborations, employment/practicum opportunities. 

Inuit students are critical knowledge holders themselves, and Invitees meet and engage students in a small and intimate group to ensure meaningful connections and relationships can be built.  

The sessions are informal, conversational style, designed to create encouraging space for the students to ask questions and contemplate/consider their involvement in research.  Sessions hold no pressure or expected outcomes/outputs.