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 rela

SUBMITTER: Ferrazzi P 

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

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature