Designing a Great Slave Lake Fishery by Northerners for Resilient Futures in the NWT

The 20-year research program that the Arctic Research Foundation (ARF) is building to understand the sustainability of the Great Slave Lake requires articulating the perspectives and priorities of the Indigenous Nations that live around and depend on the lake. Under ARF’s research program umbrella, this BSI internship will be part of the Mitacs-funded project “Designing a Great Slave Lake Fishery by Northerners for Resilient Futures in the NWT”. The general objective of this project is to gather Indigenous and other northern residents’ perspectives on how they envision the future of the lake fisheries. The intern will support our project with logistics, networking, communications and contributing to understanding research capacity needs in the communities associated with the project. The intern will be in charge of contacting research participants and scheduling meetings and appointments. The intern will facilitate the logistics of those meetings. In terms of communications, the intern will generate a database of media content related to the general themes of the project and support the creation of short communications for Indigenous nations, other stakeholders involved in the project and the general public. The intern will also help consult people and organizations involved in the fishery about their needs regarding skills, resources and networks associated with conducting research.

Faculty Supervisor:

C. Julián Idrobo

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Partner:

Arctic Research Foundation

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Aurora College

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