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Reciprocal Inuit and Western research training: facilitating research capacity and community agency in Arctic research partnerships.

ABSTRACT: Engaging community partners to work as co-researchers and research assistants for research involving Inuit communities or regions helps to ensure the equitable recognition of community and researcher priorities, mutual trust and respect, participation by local participants, inclusion of local knowledge and local uptake of research findings. However, research knowledge still in development among community members has been described as a barrier to effective Arctic community research partnerships. This paper describes two 3-day, cross-cultural research training workshops held in the Nunavut communities of Arviat and Iqaluit during Spring 2017. The purpose was to encourage reciprocity as a basis for research training that incorporates both Western and Inuit approaches and that emphasises relationship building to benefit both Inuit and non-Inuit research communities. A review of participant responses to the workshops suggests value in using an integrated Western-Inuit framework of educational objectives to guide the training. Responses suggest the workshops helped improve understanding of research practices and ethics rooted in different traditions for participants interested in assisting with or conducting research in Canada's Arctic communities.

SUBMITTER: Ferrazzi P

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5795698 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Reciprocal Inuit and Western research training: facilitating research capacity and community agency in Arctic research partnerships.

Ferrazzi Priscilla P Christie Peter P Jalovcic Djenana D Tagalik Shirley S Grogan Alanna A

International journal of circumpolar health 20181201 1

Engaging community partners to work as co-researchers and research assistants for research involving Inuit communities or regions helps to ensure the equitable recognition of community and researcher priorities, mutual trust and respect, participation by local participants, inclusion of local knowledge and local uptake of research findings. However, research knowledge still in development among community members has been described as a barrier to effective Arctic community research partnerships. ...[more]

PMID: 29384440

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Reciprocal Inuit and Western research training: facilitating research capacity and community agency in Arctic research partnerships.

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