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StraightUpNorth is a site designed to share our team efforts and progress in community-engaged research for northern sustainability.
We are an interdisciplinary research group working to address northern community priorities, dedicated to learning from Indigenous knowledge and supporting Indigenous self-determination in research. Our cross-cultural research team is guided by northern community partners and protocols throughout all stages of a project. Our research aims to enhance societal and ecological well-being in ways that advance our understandings of human-environment interactions, benefit community partners, and contribute to policy and decision-making.
Sharing a reflection prepared for McMaster Faculty of Science, as an invited feature for the National Day of Truth and Reconciliation September 30, 2022 For many Canadians, academic research is considered to involve progressive and innovative thinking. For many Inuit, the Indigenous peoples of the Canadian Arctic, research has been an extension of colonial policies… Read More
The SUN Team is now on Instagram! Follow us @straightupnorth_research to receive updates on projects, students, research partners, travels, and events.
YOPP Final Summit Montréal, Québec (August 29 – September 1, 2022) SUN Team members Natasha Mablick-Simonee, Natalie Carter, Andrew Arreak, and Katherine Wilson presented as part of a keynote panel “Sila qanuippa? (How’s the weather?)”. They shared their experiences with strengths and challenges for polar prediction products around Mittimatalik (Pond Inlet, Nunavut). They also called… Read More
Sharing a reflection prepared for McMaster Faculty of Science, as an invited feature for the National Day of Truth and Reconciliation September 30, 2022 For many Canadians, academic research is considered to involve progressive and innovative thinking. For many Inuit, the Indigenous peoples of the Canadian Arctic, research has been an extension of colonial policies… Read More
The SUN Team is now on Instagram! Follow us @straightupnorth_research to receive updates on projects, students, research partners, travels, and events.
YOPP Final Summit Montréal, Québec (August 29 – September 1, 2022) SUN Team members Natasha Mablick-Simonee, Natalie Carter, Andrew Arreak, and Katherine Wilson presented as part of a keynote panel “Sila qanuippa? (How’s the weather?)”. They shared their experiences with strengths and challenges for polar prediction products around Mittimatalik (Pond Inlet, Nunavut). They also called… Read More
“Gita Ljubicic, an associate professor with the School of Earth, Environment & Society, has been named to an expert panel tasked with identifying the key foundational elements required to create an inclusive, collaborative, effective, and world-class Arctic and Northern science system… Earlier this year, Ljubicic organized a three-day virtual Weather and Society Workshop for 115… Read More
Gita Ljubicic is one of 11 members appointed to the Canada Council of Academies (CCA) Expert Panel on the “Future of Arctic and Northern Research”. Connect to the CCA website to read the full news release. “I look forward to working with this amazing team to develop a vision and goals for research that… Read More
We are excited to share the great work Alexis Polidoro has done in summarizing her MA thesis on: “What is happening where? An evaluation of Social Science Research Trends in Nunavut (2004-2019)”. The Summary Report can be downloaded from the Nunavut research trends project page.
Update on Weather & Society (W&S) Workshop Report We apologize that our W&S Workshop report is now overdue. There are so many great discussions and contributions to work through from the breakout group recordings, it’s taking us a lot longer than expected to develop the summary report. We want to do a good job, and hope… Read More
We are excited to share the news of a new report released by the Nunavut Research Institute (NRI) on Research Trends in Nunavut based on scientific research licenses (2004-2019)! “We wrote this report mainly to help Nunavummiut learn about who is doing research, what they are studying, and where…We hope this report can provide a… Read More
Congratulations to Alexis Polidoro on completing your MA and all your tremendous work with Jamal Shirley at the Nunavut Research Institute, and with the Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre at Carleton University! Alexis’ research contributes to the Nunavut research trends project. Her dissertation is titled “What is happening where? An evaluation of Social Science Research… Read More
Congratulations to Dr. Katherine Wilson on completing your PhD and all your tremendous work with Andrew Arreak, Sikumiut, and SmartICE in Mittimatalik! Katherine and Andrew were leading the project on sea ice safety in Mittimatalik. Her dissertation is titled “The Sikumiut Model: A cross-cultural decolonizing research approach for sea ice travel safety in Mittimatalik, Nunavut”… Read More
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