Founder, Quintessential Research Group
Jacqueline Quinless lives on the Traditional Territory of the lək̓ʷəŋən speaking peoples, W̱SÁNEĆ and Esquimalt Nations on Vancouver Island with her children. Jacqueline is a biracial person of Irish/British ancestry and Indian ethnicity from Hyderabad and Secunderabad, India. She holds a PhD in Sociology with a focus on the health, inequality, data sovereignty, applied statistics and gender from the University of Victoria. Jacqueline spent 10 years working for Statistics Canada in the Gathering Strength Initiative and has taught data analysis extensively in Indigenous communities across Canada and Nunangat for two decades. She is award winning Public Sociologist recognized by the Canadian Sociological Association (CSA) and the Angus Reid Foundation for her community-based research in the advancement of human welfare in Canada. She is an adjunct professor in Sociology, and an associate faculty at the Center for Indigenous Research and Community Engagement (CIRCLE), at the University of Victoria. She enjoys teaching undergraduate and graduate course at the University of Victoria and Camosun College on Vancouver Island.
Participating in: Self-determination and Indigenous innovation and research
