Including Inuit community members in all training and research activities.
Facilitating training exchanges between Inuit and academic partners.
Pursuing interdisciplinary research focus teams that include Inuit co-leads.
Fill a gap in coastal ocean monitoring that can act as a link across regional, national and international ocean observation programmes.
Exploring and implementing novel research methods that transcend academic disciplines and formally integrate knowledge from both academics and Inuit rights holders.
Priority funding to support knowledge mobilization and co-development activities, specifically in supporting participation of academic and non-academic contributors of expert knowledge.
Creating a Knowledge Management Committee with representation from university and Inuit organizations to ensure data and information are collected and shared appropriately.
Following accredited project organization planning techniques such as invoking clearly defined roles and responsibilities and stage-based management.
Planning a "Knowledge Forum", an event aimed at bringing people from across the project together to connect with community members and receive input on every step of the research process:
Encouraging pursuit of interdisciplinary PhD programs at the Memorial University of Newfoundland and Dalhousie University and providing concrete pathways to do so.
Engaging with Ocean School to co-produce education objects through a philosophy of engagement shared with our project.
Dalhousie University operates in the unceded territories of the Mi’kmaw, Wolastoqey, and Peskotomuhkati Peoples. These sovereign nations hold inherent rights as the original peoples of these lands, and we each carry collective obligations under the Peace and Friendship Treaties. Section 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982 recognizes and affirms Aboriginal and Treaty rights in Canada.
We acknowledge that the lands on which Memorial University’s campuses are situated are in the traditional territories of diverse Indigenous groups, and we acknowledge with respect the diverse histories and cultures of the Beothuk, Mi’kmaq, Innu, and Inuit of this province.
