Dr. Wright’s community-based research program focuses on understanding the experiences of parents with young infants and toddlers, with a commitment to Indigenous parenting, health equity, and cultural safety. She leans heavily on decolonized methodologies and collaborates directly with Indigenous communities to ensure research goals align with community needs.

 

Her recent scholarly and community-engaged projects highlight an intersection of clinical neonatal care, trauma and violence-informed care, cultural safety, and inclusive parenting support: Fathers of the Next Generation Project: Funded by CIHR, this ongoing project collaborates with Indigenous community members and fathers to explore the parenting needs of Indigenous fathers and Two-Spirit parents. The project has developed a parenting program for men and Two-Spirit people as they transition to parenthood, embedded in local Indigenous cultural traditions and ways of knowing. Recently awarded a CIHR project grant, the project now moves to scale up the program to Indigenous community organizations across Canada and globally. 

 

Dr. Wright investigates the intersection of healthcare research and community-engaged methodologies. Her recent publications include exploring the use of graphic facilitation to support OCAP® principles, decolonizing knowledge translation initiatives, and the efficacy of using social media to recruit participants in healthcare research. Funded by a CIHR project grant, Dr. Wright is investigating how the research process can become trauma and violence-informed to create safer and more positive research experiences for Indigenous participants. 

 

Bridging her clinical and research expertise, Dr. Wright applies critical feminism and abolitionist theoretical frameworks to explore power dynamics in perinatal care delivery, and how sex and gender shape clinical care in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).