RESEARCH GROUP MEMBERS
CURRENT RESEARCH GROUP MEMBERS
COLLABORATORS
| Researcher | Research Project Title |
| Dr. Amanda Boyd | Tukisinirlungniq: Understandings of the Risks and Benefits of Consuming Beluga in Arviat, NU |
POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWS
| Researcher | Research Project Title |
| Dr. Cedric Juillet | Arctic Food Security and Global Changes: Towards a Quantitative Integrated Approach to Enhance Decision-making CapacitySocial, Cultural, Economic and Ecological Determinants of Food Security in Northern Communities |
| Dr. Laura Martinez-Levasseur | Effect of Increased Solar Exposure on Walrus’ Health, Drawing Upon Both Scientific Methods and Traditional Ecological Knowledge |
GRADUATE STUDENTS (PhD)
| Researcher | Research Project Title |
| Brigitte Evering | Thinking Differently About Knowledge(s): Narratives to Inform Environmental Collaboration |
| Daneen Dénommé | Environmental Health Management in Indigenous Communities: A Case Study with an Ontario First Nations Community |
| Jennie Knopp | Understanding Impacts of Environmental Change on Arctic Char in the ISR: Contemporary Scientific and Inuvialuit Knowledge for Community Monitoring |
| Kaitlin Breton-Honeyman | Enhancing Understandings in Marine Mammal Ecology Through Mixed Methods Approaches: Drawing from the Case Study of Beluga Whale Ecology in Nunavik |
| Dr. Ursula King | Is Hunting Still Healthy? Strengths and Limitations in Epidemiological Tools for Understanding Dominant Discourses in Aboriginal Health |
GRADUATE STUDENTS (MA)
| Researcher | Research Project Title |
| Diana Kouril | Understanding Important Features of the Land & Best Practices to Monitor Them in the Future: Case Studies in Nunatsiavut, Labrador |
| Emily Willson | Addressing the ‘Need” for Sustainable Food Security Initiatives: The Role of a Community Freezer in Nain, Nunatsiavut in Supporting Inuit Food Security |
| Kristeen McTavish | Public Participation and Social Planning for Community Food Security: Case Study of the Community-Led Food Assessment Process in Nunatsiavut |
| Lawrence Keyte | Energy Resilience in Northern Communities |
| Nicole Bilodeau | Identifying Indigenous Determinants of Health: Insights from Analysis of Inuit Self-rated Health in Nunavik |
| Véronique Gélinas | Mixed Methods Approaches in Marine Mammal Science: A Case Study of the Bowhead Whale Distribution Patterns and Feeding Ecology in the Eastern Canadian Arctic (Nunavik) Using Complementary Approaches of Stable Isotope, Trace Elements and Inuit Knowledge Analyses |
RESEARCH ASSISTANTS
| Researcher | Research Project Title |
| Eric Lede | NiKigijavut Nunatsiavummi Project (a Community-Led Food Assessment project in Nunatsiavut)Public Health and Climate Change Needs Assessment Strategy |
| Danni Dickson | Risk Communication and Trust in Decision-maker Action: Lessons from Inuit Case Studies in CanadaRisk Perception and Message Evaluation of the Inuit Health Survey Contaminants Assessment |
| Janet Kivett Knight | Dimensions of Socio-Cultural Sustainability: Perspectives of Hopedale, Nunatsiavut (Labrador) |
| Laura Keresztesi | GIS Technician |
| Mark Basterfield | Nunavik Inuit Knowledge Polar Bear Study |
| Matt Toll | GIS Technician |
| Meghan Buckham | Barriers and Facilitators to Indigenous Knowledge Integration in Environmental Decision and Policy-making: The Case of the Nunatsiavut Government |
| Kaitlin Wilson | Torngat Mountains Caribou Herd Inuit Knowledge, Culture and Values Study |
| Shirin Nuesslein | Research Group Communication and Outreach CoordinatorAdministrative Coordinator for the Nasivvik Centre for Inuit Health and Changing Environments |
| Agata Durkalec | Understanding the Role of Environment for Indigenous Health: A Case Study of Sea Ice as a Place of Health and Risk in the Inuit Community of Nain, Nunatsiavut |
| James Wilkes | Decolonizing Environmental ‘Management’: A Case Study of Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug |
FORMER RESEARCH GROUP MEMBERS
| Researcher | Research Project Title |
| Jennifer Organ | Community Freezers Supporting Food Security: Perspectives from Residents of Nain, Nunatsiavut |
| Jennifer Robus | Linking Two Ways of Knowing to Understand Climate Change Impacts on Geese and First Nations in the Hudson Bay Lowland, Ontario |
| Dr. Rachel Hirsch | Participatory Evaluation of the Nunatsiavut Government’s Nain Community Freezer Pilot Youth Outreach Program |
| Ryan DeCaire | Indigenous Community Food Production and the Re-establishment and Re-strengthening of Biocultural Relationships |
| Vinay Rajdev | Food Security in the Circumpolar RegionRisk Communication and Contaminants in the Circumpolar RegionTraditional Knowledge on Fish in Inuvialuit, Northwest Territories |
| Katelyn Friendship | The Role of Indigenous Knowledge in Environmental Health Risk Management in Yukon, Canada |
| Rodd Laing | Inuit Sea Ice Use and Occupancy Project |