The Centering Culture team is committed to contributing practical, accessible curricula and toolkits to support teams dedicated to developing their own and their teams’ cultural awareness, knowledge, and skills. Centering Culture tools and resources are designed and developed in partnership with practitioners, community members, and stakeholders in fields and with lived experiences relevant to the respective community and professional context.
As part of an NSF funded effort, the community research team seeks to develop resources and trainings to support researchers, community partners, and the public in learning how to conduct ethical research that is grounded in values of reciprocity, relationality, and respect. Our resources and trainings are available here.
The Braiding Knowledge project is a collaboration between Dr. Melissa Tehee, Dr. Breanne Litts, and Dr. Rogelio Cardona-Rivera that seeks to create new forms of technology that support Indigenous perspectives. Learn more here on our project website.
Our team seeks to develop training and infrastructure that supports development of cultural awareness, knowledge, and skills across a range of healthcare contexts.
The Centering Culture team is committed to contributing practical, accessible curricula and toolkits to support teams dedicated to developing their own and their teams’ cultural awareness, knowledge, and skills. Centering Culture tools and resources are designed and developed in partnership with practitioners, community members, and stakeholders in fields and with lived experiences relevant to the respective community and professional context.
As part of an NSF funded effort, the community research team seeks to develop resources and trainings to support researchers, community partners, and the public in learning how to conduct ethical research that is grounded in values of reciprocity, relationality, and respect. Our resources and trainings are available here.
The Braiding Knowledge project is a collaboration between Dr. Melissa Tehee, Dr. Breanne Litts, and Dr. Rogelio Cardona-Rivera that seeks to create new forms of technology that support Indigenous perspectives. Learn more here on our project website.
The Daigwade project is a community-based effort with the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation. We are working with families to create place-based storytelling experiences that share and preserve the Tribe’s culture.
In partnership with Dr. Melissa Tehee (Psychology, USU) and her Tohi Lab, Dr. Litts and the LED Lab are working with Edith Bowen Laboratory School (K-6) to investigate how to collaboratively (re)design cross-cultural field experiences for sixth graders to effectively develop culturally competent citizen scholars. The key aim of the project is to cultivate connections across partners, cultures, and disciplines.
This research project investigates the interaction of teachers and staff at a local elementary school as they navigate the shift to teaching remotely during a pandemic. We are specifically seeking to understand how this school's staff apply their collaborative culture to address the unprecedented challenges of teaching online.
