Planning: Developing Collaborative Research Partnerships with Nunavut Communities

该奖项支持概念化，规划和合作活动与两个加拿大因纽特人社区经历了快速气候变化的影响。该项目将探讨已知的气候影响如何与非气候变量（如获得医疗保健，有偿工作和教育）在两个具有混合食物系统的北极社区（即，既依赖生存资源，又参与市场经济）。PI将与长老和社区领导人合作，举办一系列虚拟和面对面的会议，共同确定研究问题、方法和与社区粮食安全目标相一致的评估活动。在这一过程中将明确涉及道德方面的考虑。这项合作工作将为PI将与社区成员讨论的标准研究提案奠定基础。将提供翻译，社区成员将有机会使用文化上适当的沟通方式发表评论。最后，PI和社区将共同制定评估里程碑。该项目是与两个因努伊特社区共同制作的，他们将与PI合作确定研究问题和适当的数据收集方法。与社区领袖和长老的初步会议将是非正式和虚拟的，然后是亲自介绍和与理事会成员讨论。每个地点的重点小组将在当地研究助理和因纽特人翻译的协助下，查明粮食安全问题和社区优势。联合提案设计将是一个迭代过程，使用多种形式的外联来吸引社区成员。项目规划的所有阶段都将优先考虑协作和建立伙伴关系。论文包括一份使用这些参与式方法开发的研究提案和一篇描述该过程的同行评审文章。更广泛的影响包括北极研究的研究生培训，能力建设和新的研究伙伴关系的发展。该项目由北极研究机会计划和道德和负责任的研究计划共同资助。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award supports conceptualization, planning, and collaboration activities with two Canadian Inuit communities experiencing the effects of rapid climate change. The project will explore how known climate impacts intersect with non-climate variables (such as access to health care, paid work, and education) in two Arctic communities with mixed food systems (i.e., reliant upon both subsistence resources and participation in the market economy). Working in partnership with Elders and community leaders, the PI will conduct a series of virtual and in-person meetings to co-identify research questions, methods, and evaluation activities aligned with the communities’ food security goals. Ethical considerations will be explicitly addressed during the process. This collaborative work will lay the foundation for a standard research proposal that the PI will iterate with community members. Translations will be provided and community members will have the opportunity to comment using culturally appropriate modes of communication. Finally, the PI and communities will jointly develop evaluation milestones. This project is co-produced with two Inuit communities, who will partner with the PI to identify research questions and appropriate data collection methods. Initial meetings with community leaders and Elders will be informal and virtual, followed by in-person presentations and discussion with council members. Focus groups at each site will identify both food security concerns and community strengths, assisted by local research assistants and Inuktitut translators. Joint proposal design will be an iterative process, using multiple forms of outreach to engage community members. All stages of project planning will prioritize collaboration and partnership-building. Deliverables include a research proposal developed using these participatory methods and a peer-reviewed article describing the process. Broader impacts include graduate student training in Arctic research, capacity building, and the development of new research partnerships.This project is funded jointly by the Arctic Research Opportunities Program and Ethical and Responsible Research Program.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.