Heidi Weigand

Education

• BA (Dalhousie)
• MBA (Saint Mary’s)
• PhD (Saint Mary’s)

Research Interests

My research interests are rooted in collaborations that reinforce healthy and sustainable communities. My most recent projects focus on mental health advocacy, Indigenous-led fish and fish habitat protection, and community engagement. I am crafting a non-traditional academic path, navigating my positionality as a Western researcher living and working in an Indigenous nation filled with rich culture and horrible traumas, yet steeped in a collective circle of respect, gratitude, and hope. I follow a protocol of conducting research with Indigenous researchers/knowledge holders and the Mi’kmaq community using a Two-Eyed Seeing approach

Selected Publications

• Pharmacists’ perceptions of error reporting systems. Hartt, C., Weigand, H., MacDonald, A., Barker, J., & Mackinnon, N. Journal of Patient Safety and Risk Management, in press  (2024)
• Investigating rural logistics and transportation through the lens of quadruple bottom line sustainability. Parmaksız, D., Ülkü, M.A., & Weigand, H. Logistics, 8(3), 81  (2024)
• Does kindness matter? Discourses on kindness during the pandemic. Weigand, H., Williams, K.S., Okoroafor, S., Weigand, E., & Liuzzo, G. Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management, https://doi.org/10.1108/QROM-12-2023-2640  (2024)
• Creating good knowledge together: heartful-communal storytelling at the intersection of caregiving and academia. Winham, N., Williams, K.S., Jamjoom, L.A., Watson, K., Weigand, H., Deal, N.M. Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. doi: 10.1108/EDI-08-2022-0207  (2023).
• Exploring the well-being of community pharmacy professionals, turnover intention and patient safety: Time to include operational responsibility. Etezad, S., Fleming, M., Weigand, H.A., Hartt, C.M., Dutton, D.J., Barker, J.R., & Brunt, K.R. Canadian Pharmacists Journal/Revue des Pharmaciens du Canada, 156(2), 71-84  (2023).

Awards & Honours

• Outstanding Reviewer (2023), Emerald Literati Awards by Emerald Publishing
• SSHRC Explore Grants (2023), principal investigator. An exploration of safe housing models for Indigenous women, girls, and two-spirit people project, $5,000.
• SSHRC Insights Grant (2023), co-applicant. Building healthy leadership systems starts with our leaders, $300,000. PI: Dr. Catherine Loughlin.
• Mitacs Indigenous Pathways (2022), principal investigator; student: Jessica Hepworth. Understanding decolonization of an Indigenous-led organization in a Western funded world. Research Project, $15,000.
• Mitacs Accelerate Grant (2022), principal investigator; student: Katherine Wagar. Contagious Resilient Leadership Workshop Series Evaluation Research Project, $15,000.

Current Teaching

• BUSI 6326 Management Skills Development
• BUSI 6998 Building Collaborative Capacity
• BUSI 6999 Leading Change