International Research Fellow Awards: A Survey of Living Conditions of Canadian Inuit

0002402 Searles国际研究员奖励计划使美国科学家和工程师能够在国外进行三到二十四个月的研究。 该计划的奖项为联合研究以及使用国外独特或互补的设施、专业知识和实验条件提供了机会。该奖项将为Edmund Q. S. Searles支持24与Gerard Duhaime教授在拉瓦尔大学在魁北克，加拿大对加拿大因纽特人的生活条件进行调查。 该项目由极地方案办公室北极社会科学方案共同资助，加拿大北方的因努伊特人正处于转型过程中，从小规模的大家庭定居点向较大的城镇转移。 此外，因纽特人与加拿大南部社会的联系日益密切。 北极其他地区的其他土著人民群体也在经历类似的变化。 目前还没有任何研究能够确定北方的生活条件-由一系列广泛的文化、社会、经济和文化因素界定-如何影响因纽特人的选择以及北方偏远住区的健康和可持续性。 来自美国、加拿大、格陵兰、挪威、瑞典、芬兰和俄罗斯联邦的一个社会科学家国际小组决定对北极圈土著人民的生活条件进行一次国际调查。 Searles博士将担任Duhaime教授的助理，Duhaime教授是本研究加拿大部分的协调员。 他们的项目将设计和实施一项基于因纽特人的调查，该调查将用于衡量影响5万名加拿大因纽特人生活条件的一系列广泛指标，确保这一调查工具与在北极圈其他地区进行的研究，包括对生活在阿拉斯加北方、格陵兰岛和俄罗斯远东地区的因纽特人进行的研究具有可比性，和萨米族人他们将与土著人民和组织合作，不仅确保研究报告反映他们的利益和现实，而且确保研究报告建立一个框架，使土著人民能够设计，该项目将在土著社区和学术研究人员之间建立强有力的伙伴关系。 该研究的结果将用于为广泛的科学研究提供基础，这些研究调查了人类与环境的相互作用，社会，经济和政治变化，以及环北极城镇和住区的整体健康和可持续性。

0002402SearlesThe International Research Fellow Awards Program enables U.S. scientists and engineers to conduct three to twenty-four months of research abroad. The program's awards provide opportunities for joint research, and the use of unique or complementary facilities, expertise and experimental conditions abroad.This award will provide Dr. Edmund Q. S. Searles support for twenty-four to work with Professor Gerard Duhaime at Laval University in Quebec, Canada on a survey of the living conditions of Canadian Inuit. This project is being co-funded by the Arctic Social Sciences Program of the Office of Polar Programs.The Inuit people of northern Canada are in the process of transformation, shifting from small extended family settlements to larger towns. Additionally, there is a trend of Inuit becoming increasingly linked with southern Canadian society. Other groups of indigenous peoples in other parts of the Arctic are undergoing similar changes. There have been no studies available which can identify how living conditions in the north, as defined by a broad range of cultural, social, economic, and cultural factors, are affecting choices the Inuit are making as well as influencing the health and sustainability of remote settlements in the North. An international team of social scientists from the United States, Canada, Greenland, Norway, Sweden, Finland and the Russian Federation decided to develop an international survey of the living conditions of the indigenous peoples of the Circumpolar Arctic. Dr. Searles will act as assistant to Professor Duhaime, who is the Coordinator of the Canadian portion of this study. Their project will design and implement a questionnaire-based survey that will be used to measure a broad range of indicators affecting the living conditions of 50,000 Canadian Inuit, ensure that this survey instrument is comparable to studies to be conducted in other regions of the Circumpolar North, including those to be used on Inuit living in northern Alaska, Greenland, and far eastern Russia, and with Saami (another indigenous group) living in northern Scandinavia and parts of Russia and they will work with indigenous peoples and organizations not only to ensure that the study reflects their interests and realities, but that it creates a framework for enabling indigenous peoples to design, implement and analyze their own scientific studies.This project will build strong partnerships between indigenous communities and academic researchers. The results of the study will be used to provide a basis for a wide range of scientific studies investigating human-environment interactions, social, economic and political change, and the overall health and sustainability of towns and settlements in the Circumpolar North.***