Saturday, March 9, 2013

APECS Webinar, Thursday March 14: Working in/with the community and afterwards

Working in/with the community and afterwards

Thursday March 14 at 3 pm EST

Link in Gotomeeting to registerhttps://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/540522657

or Webinar ID: 540522657 at http://www.joinwebinar.com/fec/?locale=en_US&set=true

 

You are welcome to join the second community webinar of the APECS Canada webinar series: Working in/with the community and afterwards. Our speakers have vast experience and knowledge on working with communities across the Canadian Arctic, and will provide key advice and information on how to prepare for fieldwork. In this webinar we will like to extend information provided in the first community webinar and focus on how to continue, to work, and develop partnerships with communities. Themes in this webinar will include: continue adaptability, disseminating findings with community members, engaging local participation, honoraria, hosting workshops, informational meetings, radio and television broadcasts, involvement in local extracurricular activities, how to increase community research capacity and nurture human resources, co-authorship, correspondence, social media, organizing return visits, community correspondence and data sharing, wrapping up a project, giving results back to the community, opening up avenues for continued research, citizen science, outreach activities, etc.

 

Our speakers:


Kiah Hachey (Research Advisor, Dept. of Social & Cultural Development, Nunavut Tunngavik Inc.)

Sonia Wesche (Assistant professor in the department of geography at the University of Ottawa)

Deborah Simmons (Adjunct Professor in the department of Native Studies & Natural Resources Institute, University of Manitoba)

More information can be found at: http://apecs.is/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=346&Itemid=1681

Cheers

Louise Chavarie