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Community-based arctic research is as much about being a good researcher as it is being a good person. Human relationships are the foundation of meaningful community-researcher relationships. In this chapter, I discuss my experiences during my graduate research with an arctic community and reflect on my role as a researcher working within an Indigenous culture. I talk about doing research together with people in the community and how this led to the success of my research, and to opportunities to use research as a way of giving back to the community.
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Worden, E. (2021). Let Your Humanity Guide You. In: Pearce, T. (eds) Research with Arctic Inuit Communities. Springer Polar Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78483-6_6
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