Michael Robidoux

Michael Robidoux is a full professor in the School of Human Kinetics, Faculty of Health Sciences. With expertise in ethnology, Robidoux has led multidisciplinary research programs studying land-based food practices in rural remote Indigenous communities in northern Canada for over 20 years.

Professor Robidoux and his Indigenous Health Research Group have maintained longstanding partnerships with tribal organizations and Indigenous communities advocating for local food systems in northern Canada to address high rates of food insecurity and disproportionately high levels of diet-related disease. Robidoux  is particularly interested in studying the impact of local food procurement on local dietary practices and in developing economic strategies to build local food capacity in remote northern communities.

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Professor Robidoux is accepting new students for thesis supervision.

• Indigenous food sovereignty
• Northern food systems
• Traditional food practices
• Injury in sport

As part of the Indigenous Health Research Group, Robidoux is working with Indigenous communities in northern Canada to develop economic strategies to support and sustain local food procurement initiatives. This research is funded through a SSHRC Insight Grant.

In partnership with CCM Hockey, with funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Robidoux is working with Blaine Hoshizaki to document injuries in youth hockey. Their study employs an observational research design, documenting injury events in situ to identify situational factors that help explain why and how injuries occur in youth hockey. Project data will be critical in developing injury prevention strategies and designing equipment to better protect youth playing hockey.

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Books

• Robidoux, M.A. & Mason, C.W. Editors. (2017). “Land Not Forgotten: Indigenous Food Security and Land-Based Practices in Northern Ontario”. University of Manitoba Press.
• Robidoux, M.A. “Stickhandling through the Margins: First Nations Hockey in Canada”. University of Toronto Press, 2012.

Indigenous food systems — selected papers

• Rondeau, M., Loukes, K.A., & Robidoux, M.A. (2023). Community collaboration in the face of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Examples of How Remote First Nations in Northern Ontario Managed the Pandemic. International Journal of Indigenous Health. 18(1): 1-11.
• Loukes, K., Anderson, S., Beardy, J., Rondeau, M.C. & Robidoux, M.A. (2022) Wapekeka's COVID-19 Response: A Local Response to a Global Pandemic. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health, 19, 11562. 1-18.
• Robidoux, M.A. & Stratus, A. (2022). The Inuit’s Offer to Canada’s Black Governor General: Food, Power, and the Deconstruction of Lévi-Strauss’ “Culinary Triangle”. International Journal of Canadian Studies. 60, 21-39.
• Robidoux, M.A., Winnepetonga, D., Santosa, S., & Haman, F. (2021). Assessing the contribution of traditional foods to food security for the Wapekeka First Nation of Canada. Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism.
• Loukes, K., Ferriera, C., Gaudet, C., & Robidoux, M.A. (2021). Can selling traditional food increase food sovereignty for First Nations in northwestern Ontario (Canada)?. Food and Foodways.
• Ferreira, C., Gaudet, C. Chum, A., Robidoux, M.A. (2021). Local food development in the Moose Cree First Nation: taking steps to build local food sustainability. Food Culture and Society.
• Robidoux, M.A. & Haibi, C. (2018). Promoting Land-Based Food Practices in the not so Rural Idyll of Northern Lebanon: Dietary Solutions from Urban Perspectives. Journal of Rural and Community Development 13(3), 19-37.
• Leibovitch Randazzo, M.P. & Robidoux, M.A. (2018). Looking to the Land: Food Access Challenges in Two Rural and Remote Indigenous Communities. Canadian Journal of Native Studies 38(1). 1-26.
• Thompson, H., Mason, C.W. & Robidoux, M.A. (2018). Hoop-style Greenhouse Gardening in the Wapekeka First Nation as an Extension of Land-Based Food Practices. Arctic 71(4), 387-401.
• Leibovitch Randazzo, M.P. & Robidoux, M.A. (2018). The costs of local food procurement in a Northern Canadian First Nation community: an affordable strategy to food security?. Journal of Hunger and Environmental Nutrition. 1-21.
• Robidoux, M.A., Loukes, K.A., Vandermale, E.A., Keil, T.J., & Gaudet, J.C. (2013). Generations of gardeners regenerating the soil of sovereignty in Moose Cree First Nation: An account of community and research collaboration. Canadian Food Studies, 10(3):109-132.

Sport injury — selected papers

• Butterfield, J., Post, A., Karton, C., Robidoux, M.A., Gilchrist, M., & Hoshizaki, T.B. (2023). A video analysis examination of the frequency and type of head impacts for player positions in youth ice hockey and FE estimation of their impact severity. Sport Biomechanics.
• Meliambro, J., Karton, C., Cournoyer, J., Post, A., LaFlamme, Y., Kendall, M., Robidoux, M.A., Gilchrist, M.D., Hoshizaki, T.B. (2022). Comparison of head impact frequency and magnitude in youth tackle football and ice hockey. Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering. 25(8):936-951.
• Karton, C., Post, A., Laflamme, Y., Kendall, M., Cournoyer, J., Robidoux, M.A., Gilchrist, M., & Hoshizaki, B. (2021). Exposure to brain trauma in six age divisions of minor ice hockey. Journal of Biomechanics. 116(12).
• Post A., Karton C, Thevenot O, Hoshizaki TB, Robidoux M.A., Gilchrist MD. (2020). Comparison of frequency and magnitude of head impacts experienced by Peewee boys and girls in games of youth ice hockey. Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering.
• McMunn, L., Hoshizaki, T., Robidoux, M.A., Gilchrist, M. Karton, C. & Post, A. (2020). Comparison of Head Impact Frequency and Magnitude for Midget and Junior Ice Hockey Players to Inform Safety and Policy. Safety in Ice Hockey: ASTM International 6, 21- 44.
• Robidoux, M.A. Kendall, M., Karton, C., Post, A., Laflamme, Y. Hoshizaki, T.B. (2020). Comparing concussion rates as reported by hockey Canada with head contact events as observed across minor ice-hockey age categories. Journal of Concussion.
• Chen, W., Post, A., Karon, C., Gilchrist, M.D., Robidoux, M.A., Hoshizaki, T.B. (2020). A comparison of frequency and magnitude of head impacts between Pee Wee And Bantam youth ice hockey. Sports Biomechanics. 1-24.