Join our guests, Gabriela Alonso Yáñez and Basirat Oyalowo to explore how transdisciplinary research can advance decolonisation and epistemic justice by more meaningfully engaging diverse knowledge systems. In Gabriela Alonso-Yanez’s I2Insights blog, she examined how dominant academic norms can privilege certain ways of knowing while marginalizing others, discussing the role of critical unlearning in challenging these hierarchies and fostering more reflexive, equitable, and inclusive research practices. Basirat Oyalowo’s posts discussed transdisciplinarity as it relates to African society and research to highlight how transdisciplinary approaches can better align with locally grounded priorities, and reflecting on how multi-stakeholder collaboration, institutional transformation, and the role of higher education support socially responsive and just research systems. For this webinar, our speakers will consider how transdisciplinary research can move beyond extractive models toward more inclusive, context-responsive, and justice-oriented practices.

This webinar is the next installment in our 2025-2026 series celebrating the 10th anniversary of the i2Insights blog and repository. Each session highlights enduring “gold nuggets” from the blog’s archives – ideas and practices that continue to influence how we collaborate to address today’s complex challenges.

Speakers:

Gabriela Alonso Yanez (University of Calgary)

Basirat Oyalowo (Oxford Brookes University)