The federal agencies that fund research in Canada are taking steps to stamp out Indigenous identity fraud in an effort to ensure that funding intended for Indigenous researchers goes to genuine Indigenous people.
A new report reveals that Canada’s three research funding agencies — the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) — are developing a new policy that will lead to significant change.
“This policy is really oriented toward ensuring that we can confidently say as agencies that the research that we’re funding by Indigenous people is
