Environmental Research Letters: Improving the relationships between Indigenous rights holders and researchers in the Arctic: An invitation for change in funding and collaboration

An academic publication rethinking existing funding structures to enable better collaboration between Indigenous rights holders and researchers.

CO-CREATE contributors co-developed an academic article that proposes a new paradigm for the financing of Arctic research centred around the inclusion of Indigenous partners, researchers, and institutions throughout the funding process. The article is based on the co-authors’, a group of Indigenous and non-Indigenous partners, experience with collaborative processes and addresses the need to re-think existing funding structures and the role of funding agencies in enabling (or disabling) collaboration between Indigenous rights holders and researchers. The article went through an Indigenous review process before it was published in the Environmental Research Letters special issue “Focus on Arctic Change: Transdisciplinary Research and Communication.”

The Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (now the Research Institute for Sustainability) provided funding for the publication.