Rheanna Robinson

Health and Well-being | Indigenous Peoples | Indigenous Health | Health Sciences | Northern Issues | First Nations | Disability | Community | Education | Ethics | Health | Indigenous Disability Studies, Indigenous Education, Indigenous Methodologies, and Community-based Research in Northern B.C.

Dr. Rheanna Robinson is a Citizen of the Manitoba Métis Federation with matrilineal lineage to the Red River Valley. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of First Nations Studies at the University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC) and a Co-Lead for the Indigenous Research Stream with the Canadian Institute of Inclusion and Citizenship at the University of British Columbia (UBC). Raised in Smithers, B.C., Dr. Robinson began her academic studies at UNBC in 1995 before completing her PhD at UBC in 2016. She has expertise in Indigenous Disability Studies and Indigenous Education, where her research is grounded in her lived experience and guided by relationship and the Four R’s (Respect, Relevancy, Reciprocity, and Responsibility). Dr. Robinson values the role of Indigenous scholarship in academia and how Indigenous knowledges continue to offer the world meaningful representations of equity and inclusion in diverse and varying ways.