Planning: Developing Collaborative Research Partnerships with Nunavut Communities

该奖项支持与两个加拿大因纽特人社区的概念化、规划和合作活动，这些社区正在经历快速气候变化的影响。该项目将探索在两个具有混合粮食系统（即既依赖生存资源又参与市场经济）的北极社区中，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）交叉。倡议将与长老和社区领袖合作，开展一系列虚拟和面对面会议，共同确定符合社区粮食安全目标的研究问题、方法和评估活动。在此过程中，将明确处理道德问题。这种协作工作将为PI将与社区成员进行迭代的标准研究计划奠定基础。将提供翻译，社区成员将有机会使用符合文化的交流方式发表评论。最后，项目负责人和社区将共同制定评估里程碑。该项目是与两个因纽特人社区共同制作的，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的和虚拟的，随后是面对面的演讲和与理事会成员的讨论。每个地点的焦点小组将在当地研究助理和因纽特翻译的协助下，确定粮食安全问题和社区优势。联合提案设计将是一个反复的过程，使用多种形式的外展来吸引社区成员。项目规划的所有阶段都将优先考虑合作和伙伴关系的建立。可交付成果包括使用这些参与式方法制定的研究计划和描述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与责任研究计划共同资助。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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.