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Sheila Cote-Meek, Ph.D.
Associate Vice-President, Indigenous Programs
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Sheila Cote-Meek is Laurentian University's first Associate Vice-President, Indigenous Programs. She is responsible for promoting and assisting with the development of Aboriginal academic programming across disciplines, as well as the development of the Indigenous Sharing and Learning Centre which will be dedicated to promoting Indigenous learning, culture and scholarly pursuits at Laurentian University.
Sheila is an Associate Professor in the Native Bachelor of Social Work program where she has taught courses in Aboriginal research methodologies and Community organizing. She was the editor of the 5th edition of the Native Social Work Journal. The issue titled "Resistance and Resiliency: Addressing Historical Trauma of Aboriginal People". She has also held the positions of Coordinator and Field/Admissions Coordinator for the program.
Dr. Cote-Meek is completed her PhD in the department of Sociology and Equity Studies at the Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto where here sub-specialization was Aboriginal education. Her doctoral thesis is titled: "Exploring the impact of ongoing colonial violence on Aboriginal students in the postsecondary classroom."
Sheila's research areas include addressing Aboriginal social, health and education issues. She was a co-investigator in the National First Nations Youth and Tobacco study, the National First Nations Social Welfare study and was the principal investigator in a research study on Chronic Mental Health Services in James Bay. She was also involved in an international research project with colleagues from New Zealand. More recently she is the co-principal researcher of a 5 year, $990,172 national study, "Exploring how First Nations traditional use of tobacco can be utilized as a strategy in prevention and intervention for tobacco misuse amongst First Nations youth."
Born and raised in northern Ontario and a member of the Teme-Augama Anishinabe, Professor Cote-Meek is committed to working for and with Aboriginal peoples in the areas of social, health and education.
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