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There are so many things that I wish I had understood before heading North. My experiences as a graduate student working with communities in the Canadian Arctic have helped to shape my approach to preparing new graduate students for arctic research. We travel North with the best of intentions but be prepared (to be wrong). In this chapter, I discuss some of the lessons that I have learned working with Inuit communities and offer insights to new researchers.
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Pearce, T. (2021). Be Prepared (to Be Wrong). In: Pearce, T. (eds) Research with Arctic Inuit Communities. Springer Polar Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78483-6_3
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