Regions: Inuvialuit Settlement Region
Tags: health, social sciences, wellness
| Principal Investigator: | Collings, Peter F (4) |
| Licence Number: | 16627 |
| Organization: | University of Florida |
| Licensed Year(s): |
2019
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| Issued: | Sep 12, 2019 |
| Project Team: | Tim Murray, Elspeth Ready |
Objective(s): To determine issues of health and wellness important to community members and work to develop long-term, sustainable solutions to community-identified problems.
Project Description: The objective of this project is to develop a research proposal to the National Science Foundation's Arctic Social Science Program in which the communities will be Co-Investigators on the project and the research will be managed and coordinated by community members themselves. This research proposal will investigate issues of health and wellness important to community members and work to develop long-term, sustainable solutions to community-identified problems. In addition to public meetings with community leaders, methods used in this project include semi-structured interviews and focus group studies for purposes of developing a research proposal. Data from community meetings will consist of notes of those meetings as they pertain to research needs and project development. Semi structured interviewing will occur in the context of the participant's home or the residence of the researchers. Focus group sessions will occur in community facilities: the local community hall, Hamlet conference room, or Community Corporation conference room, depending on availability. The research team expect that up to 50 Inuit may participate in these processes. The research team expect to begin with community meetings, then seek input from elders (because elders are highly respected as holders of traditional knowledge), then other interested parties, and then move to focus groups to refine what the team are learning. But the communities themselves may suggest alternative approaches to developing appropriate research. It is entirely possible that community leaders may suggest focus groups as the only necessary strategy, or that the team dispense with focus groups all together. Focus group sessions will address the same set of questions that appear in the semi-structured interviews. Results of this project will be communicated through meetings at the Hamlet of Ulukhaktok and with the Community Corporation. Main purpose is to develop research in collaboration with the community. The fieldwork for this study will be conducted from September 13, 2019 to December 1, 2019.
