Regions: Inuvialuit Settlement Region, Gwich'in Settlement Area
| Principal Investigator: | Robinson, Suzanne M (7) |
| Licence Number: | 14745 |
| Organization: | Inuvik Literacy Circle |
| Licensed Year(s): |
2010
2009
2008
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| Issued: | Aug 12, 2010 |
| Project Team: | David King (Tech support, Aurora College), David Stewart (Media Consultant, Self Employed), Brett Purdy (Media Consultant, ICS) |
Objective(s): To conduct a community based research project that celebrates Northern life.
Project Description: The objective of this research is to conduct a community based research project that celebrates Northern life, share the North with the South and study the South from a Northern perspective. Also, expand the project to include personal films made by student researchers. This video project will be a participatory research project. Student collection methods will be questionnaires, focus groups, and interviews. Approximately 20 students will discuss their thoughts, experiences, and beliefs on Southern and Northern Studies. They will then construct interview questions, select interview participants, arrange interviews, conduct interviews, and review and edit footage. The main research method will be open-ended questions and video-taped interviews. The plan is to facilitate and provide a venue for local people to speak to their perceptions, their community and say what they want to say. This project has been called "Open Sociology" and the work can be viewed as part of the creative commons. This is a co-lead research video project that involves community researchers and participants. Over 40 Western Arctic Adult Education students have participated and collected almost 100 interviews. The researcher plans to use ‘Youtube’ and ‘Facebook’ and hopes to create a dedicated website in the future. DVD copies of the video series will be available. The researcher will continue to try and find venues to show the films. Also, the Inuvialuit Communications Society created a Uumatmnin show on the project that aired on APTN this spring. Tusaayaksat also did an article on the project in the winter of 2010. The fieldwork for this study will be conducted from August 11, 2010 to December 31, 2010.
