Best Practices in Collaborative Research with Northern Communities: A Synopsis from Early Career Researchers

• Main Authors: Lenz, Josefine, Roy, Louis-Philippe, Brown, Kristina, Choy, Emily, Kuznetsova, Elena, Way, Robert, Gordon, Richard, Habeck, Jan Otto, Alevtina, Evgrafova, Zolkos, Scott
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Arctic; Climate change; IASC
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/47898/; https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/47898/1/EUCOP2018_Abstract_Community-based_Research.pdf; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01816115/document; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.bbda0e58-a316-43b5-85dd-10c099b7d399; https://hdl.handle.net/

Combining scientific and traditional knowledge is crucial to understand environmental systems across circum-Arctic regions, where climate change is most striking. However, building collaborative partnerships between visiting scientists and local, indigenous traditional knowledge holders in Northern communities presents challenges. The workshop “Community-based Research: Do`s and Don`ts of Arctic Research” was organized as an IASC cross-cutting initiative at ICOP2016 in Potsdam, Germany, to facilitate dialogue between Early Career Researchers (ECRs) and Northern residents. This workshop resulted in a diverse list of considerations and sustainable practices to improve traditional and scientific knowledge exchange, and collaborative Northern research. An extensive list of positive (Do`s) and few negative recommendations (Don`ts) was generated together with ECRs and Arctic representatives. Many good ideas on research design, active communication and community involvement developed from fruitful discussions. This study provides an example of bottom-up strategy development in order to enhance knowledge transfer between scientists and northern indigenous communities.