Research for EcoSocial and Equitable Transformation (RESET) Lab
As a society, we need to work quickly with great agility, nuance and insight, foreground life over profit, and move equitably in our sustainability efforts.
The Research for Eco-Social and Equitable Transformation (RESET) Lab aims to strengthen environmental and community health equity through intersectional and community-oriented research, evidence building, and policy formation.
Traditional territory of the Fort William First Nation
How we work is as important as what we work on.
The RESET Lab works hard to follow an ethic of care that does not try to remove the ‘person’ from the ‘scholar’ and encourage everyone to bring their authentic selves to their work, celebrate their living experience, and use these experiences to guide our equity-informed work.
Traditional territories of the Dakeł Keyoh, Tŝilhqot’in Nen, and Dënéndeh
Transformative action takes collaborative intergenerational and intersectoral processes
Since its conception at the end of 2020, the RESET team has developed several projects and programs that take equity-informed systems-level approaches in addressing pressing eco-social health issues. This contributes to efforts to build better evidence, decolonize health practices, and move society towards hopeful solutions that are informed by the principles of intergenerational equity, regeneration and resilience.
Our work takes place on the unceded, stolen, and never surrendered territories of the Coast Salish Peoples, specifically the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish), səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), and kʷikʷəƛ̓əm (Kwikwetlem) Peoples. We honour ancestors past, present, and future who have been and continue to be stewards of the lands, waters and airs since time immemorial.
This work would not be possible without the many partners, collaborators, community members, researchers, and students we work with.
If you would like to partner, collaborate, or join our team, please contact us at fhs_reset@sfu.ca