Session 2(a): Reimagining Research: Indigenous Knowledge, Community Collaboration, and AI Tools
October 23, 11:05am - 12:05pm | Virtual, link to come
This session will feature a series of oral presentations highlighting current research, evaluation and quality improvement projects. Each speaker will have 15 minutes to share their work, followed by 5 minutes for questions and discussion. Join us to hear in-depth presentations, gain new insights, and engage directly with presenters during the Q&A.
PRESENTATIONS:
- Title: Illuminating Voices: Collaborative dialogues to advance equity in physical activity and health outcomes with* and for people with intellectual disabilities in Northern BC
- Speaker: Brooke Boswell, Victor Liu
- Description: This session shares a collaborative initiative to improve health equity and access to physical activity for people with intellectual disabilities (ID) in Northern BC. Through key informant dialogues with families, caregivers, healthcare providers, researchers, and community leaders, the project is working to establish an advisory committee, gather accurate data, and co-create a research roadmap. The goal is to dismantle barriers, amplify lived experiences, and build inclusive, evidence-based approaches that support better health outcomes for people with ID in rural and northern communities.
- Title: Connection is Medicine: Witsuwit’en Wellbeing through Land-Based Embodiment Practices
- Speaker: Sandra Harris
- Description: This presentation shares doctoral research with Witsuwit’en speakers and language learners exploring how holistic well-being is connected to the Yintah (territory) and all Beings. Using an Indigenous trauma-informed, arts-based, collective narrative inquiry, the study highlights shared learnings around language, land-based practices, impacts of settler colonialism, and Witsuwit’en concepts of well-being. The findings underscore the role of language and land in fostering personal, community, and Nation-level wellness while guiding future research, education, and practice.
- Title: Comparing a simplified ChatGPT prompt to a complex prompt sequence to build a search strategy for scoping reviews
- Speaker: Terri McKellar, Kristy Hancock
- Description: This study examines ChatGPT’s ability to generate search strategies for scoping reviews by comparing outputs from a simplified prompt and a complex prompt sequence to human librarian-developed strategies. Preliminary findings show that while ChatGPT can support search development, its outputs often lack sensitivity, include errors such as hallucinated subject headings, and miss advanced search techniques. The presentation will discuss the potential and limitations of generative AI tools in knowledge synthesis and outline directions for future research