I spent time in academic research administration. One thing I noticed is that sometimes when you get in a “publish or perish” silo or you're chasing a grant in a certain silo, it really precludes you or the community that is working on the problem from looking for alternative solutions or looking at an approach to a problem in a different way.
Is there anything you're working on in your network right now that you could point to for the committee as something you actually looked at from an indigenous traditional knowledge perspective, and it led you to open up a new area of research? I think it's really important to show successes.
Would you like to expand on that line of thinking? I think it's something this committee needs to consider as we're going through this study.