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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.
We are excited to share the great work Natasha Simonee and Jayko Alooloo are doing in Mittimatalik, creating tailored forecasts to meet community needs! Sila Qanuippa? (How’s the Weather?): Integrating Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit and Environmental Forecasting Products to Support Travel Safety around Pond Inlet, Nunavut, in a Changing Climate (article in Weather, Climate and Society, 2021,… Read More
Welcome back to Charlotte Buttle! In Fall 2020, Charlotte worked with Gita Ljubicic to complete her Independent Study Exploring how the Social Determinants of Inuit Health are addressed through Community-led Programming in Nunavut. Her interest in food security challenges in Nunavut continued to grow through that research, and now she is back for summer 2021 having secured a McMaster Undergraduate… Read More
Congratulations Katherine Wilson on your new position as Director of Knowledge Co-Production for SmartICE! What a great opportunity to continue and expand the work you’ve been doing on Sea-Ice Safety in Mittimatalik. Read more at: https://twitter.com/SmartICE_Arctic/status/1417167544159555586?s=20
We are excited to share the great work Natasha Simonee and Jayko Alooloo are doing in Mittimatalik, creating tailored forecasts to meet community needs! Sila Qanuippa? (How’s the Weather?): Integrating Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit and Environmental Forecasting Products to Support Travel Safety around Pond Inlet, Nunavut, in a Changing Climate (article in Weather, Climate and Society, 2021,… Read More
Welcome back to Charlotte Buttle! In Fall 2020, Charlotte worked with Gita Ljubicic to complete her Independent Study Exploring how the Social Determinants of Inuit Health are addressed through Community-led Programming in Nunavut. Her interest in food security challenges in Nunavut continued to grow through that research, and now she is back for summer 2021 having secured a McMaster Undergraduate… Read More
Congratulations Katherine Wilson on your new position as Director of Knowledge Co-Production for SmartICE! What a great opportunity to continue and expand the work you’ve been doing on Sea-Ice Safety in Mittimatalik. Read more at: https://twitter.com/SmartICE_Arctic/status/1417167544159555586?s=20
We are looking for two graduate students who are interested in making research work for Nunavummiut. This is part of a new project co-led by researchers at the Nunavut Research Institute, McMaster University, and Qaujigiartiit Health Research Centre. We have funded positions for an MA and PhD student, to start this fall or fall 2022…. Read More
Congratulations to Emmelie Paquette on being awarded the Canadian Geographers Robin P. Armstrong Memorial Prize for Excellence in Indigenous Studies! This is for her Master’s research with Uqsuqtuurmiut on caribou and sea ice crossings.
Learn more about the work that Andrew Arreak and Katherine Wilson are doing with Sikumiut in Mittimatalik, Nunavut.
Gita Ljubicic was announced as the new Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Community-Engaged Research for Northern Sustainability. Read the full story “Four McMaster researchers named Canada Research Chairs“. Gita would like to express her thanks for all the kinds words of support received in response to this announcement. “This CRC position is a reflection… Read More
Congratulations to Jason Carpenter on his award-winning Arctic Change 2020 poster! Jason’s poster on Iqalungmiut Uses and Needs of Weather, Water, Ice and Climate (WWIC) Information and Services – Preliminary Results won second place for the Social and Health Science Graduate Poster Award and received the Indigenous Science Poster to Publication Award in Arctic Science…. Read More
Congratulations to Katherine Wilson and co-authors on the first publication to come from her PhD research working with Sikumiut in Mittimattalik (Pond Inlet, Nunavut)! Natalie Carter and Gita Ljubicic were also involved in recent papers led by Dominique Henri (on co-management of light geese in Nunavut), Sean Robertson (on Inuit values and homelands in Gjoa… Read More
