Shifting from capacity building to capacity sharing in Arctic research: Considering transformative shifts in collaborative research at the ArcticNet Annual Scientific Meeting

Mercer, Louise; Ovitz, Kimberly

doi:10.1080/2154896x.2023.2205248

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“…This position has facilitated the development of intercultural respect and appreciation gradually over time and supports capacity sharing (figure 2). Where capacity sharing is a two-way knowledge exchange process developed from a foundation of reciprocity, communication, and collaboration (Mercer and Ovitz 2023). The role provides vital time for external researchers to develop cross-cultural partnerships and learn about the environment and culture from a different lens by spending time listening and learning.…”

Section: Changing Roles Within Program Structuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For this to be achieved Universities must target training towards developing good listeners as well as good communicators (Quinton et al 2022). Developing good listeners is critical to ensuring effective community engagement and two-way knowledge exchange (Quinton et al 2022, Mercer andOvitz 2023) (figure 2). A test of a CBR program is not only overcoming barriers to early-dialogue-but sustaining engagement between external researchers and community members from project design through to decision-making processes.…”

Section: Better Outcomes Start With Appropriate Questionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Ensuring continuity and impact in Arctic monitoring: a solution-orientated model for community-based environmental research

Mercer,

Whalen,

Pokiak

et al. 2023

Environ. Res.: Ecology

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Community-Based Monitoring (CBM) is increasingly cited as a means of collecting valuable baseline data that can contribute to our understanding of environmental change whilst supporting Indigenous governance and self-determination in research. However, current environmental CBM models have specific limitations that impact program effectiveness and the progression of research stages beyond data collection. Here, we highlight key aspects that limit the progression of Arctic CBM programs which include funding constraints, organisational structures, and operational processes. Exemplars from collaborative environmental research conducted in the acutely climate change impacted Hamlet of Tuktoyaktuk, Inuvialuit Settlement Region, Canada, are used to identify co-developed solutions to address these challenges. These learnings from experience-based collaborations feed into a new solution-orientated model of environmental Community-Based Research (CBR) that emphasises continuity between and community ownership in all research stages to enable a more complete research workflow. Clear recommendations are provided to develop a more coherent approach to achieving this model, which can be adapted to guide the development of successful environmental CBR programs in different research and place-based contexts.

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Section: Changing Roles Within Program Structuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Better Outcomes Start With Appropriate Questionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Ensuring continuity and impact in Arctic monitoring: a solution-orientated model for community-based environmental research

Mercer,

Whalen,

Pokiak

et al. 2023

Environ. Res.: Ecology

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Promoting Equitable Research Partnerships in Primatology

Setchell,

Bicca-Marques,

Guo

et al. 2024

Int J Primatol

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Using positionality and reflexivity to support equity in partnership‐driven research

Cadman,

Syliboy,

Saunders

et al. 2024

Conservation Biology

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Social and economic position and power shape everyone, including scientists and researchers. The way researchers do conservation science and the voices centered in the process are a result of researcher upbringing, experiences, access to resources, and values and are a manifestation of positionality. Positionality is a concept that can help one think about one's position and power in one's work. Creating a successful research partnership requires careful thinking about how equity, diversity, inclusivity, and accessibility are accounted for in the research environment. We drew on our own experiences as early career, mid‐career, and Indigenous researchers to explore researcher positionality and how understanding one's positionality can bring to the fore power dynamics in conservation science and research. We focused on the use of reflexive practice to recognize diverse roles and responsibilities, build strong project governance, and enrich relationships. We considered 2 large research partnerships, Apoqnmatulti'k (Mi'kmaw for we help each other) and the SakKijânginnaniattut Nunatsiavut Sivunitsangit (Inuttitut for Sustainable Nunatsiavut Futures) project, to examine moments of tension and interrogation of power and the ways in which this interrogation led to stronger relationships and better research. We advise that large transdisciplinary and cross‐cultural research teams use positionality and reflexivity to explicitly make choices about power dynamics in the context of executing partnership‐driven work. This can be accomplished through personal and collective interrogation of the power dynamics at play in project administration, research questions, and interpersonal relationships.

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Shifting from capacity building to capacity sharing in Arctic research: Considering transformative shifts in collaborative research at the ArcticNet Annual Scientific Meeting

Cited by 4 publications

References 12 publications

Ensuring continuity and impact in Arctic monitoring: a solution-orientated model for community-based environmental research

Ensuring continuity and impact in Arctic monitoring: a solution-orientated model for community-based environmental research

Promoting Equitable Research Partnerships in Primatology

Using positionality and reflexivity to support equity in partnership‐driven research

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