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New preprint out with @elspethready.bsky.social : "The emergence of sharing networks through indirect signaling".

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More information on the Congresss is linked above. Our session is #150, and the deadline to submit is December 15.

Our session is titled "Community Based Participatory Research on Social and Mental Wellbeing in Northern Communities: Recent Research and Advances in Methods.” If you’re working on something within that frame, we’d love to have you be part of our session.

The Sanguatsiniq research team is soliciting paper proposals for our session at the upcoming UArctic Congress 2026 meeting in Torshavn, Faroe Islands, next May 26-29.

CALL FOR PAPERS: UArctic Congress 2026 www.uarcticcongress.fo/programme/ca...

It's now on the website too: sanguatsiniq.github.io

Good point, I'll update the website...
Meanwhile: Please send applications to elspeth_ready@eva.mpg.de
by June 1, 2025. Applications should include:
1. A cover letter describing motivation and relevant experience
2. A curriculum vitae with names and email address of three professional references

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Please address questions and send applications to elspeth_ready@eva.mpg.de
by June 1, 2025. Applications should include:
1. A cover letter describing motivation and relevant experience
2. A curriculum vitae with names and email address of three professional references

Desirable qualifications:
- Knowledge of Inuktitut
- Experience with digital data collection platforms (e.g., Kobo Collect)
- Previous experience conducting ethnographic or community-based research

Essential requirements:
- Willingness to conduct extended research in an Arctic community
- Ability to build rapport with community members and to collaborate closely with community stakeholders

The anticipated dates of the work are flexible, but we are currently planning on August to October 2025. Subsequent research/employment (e.g., PhD or postdoctoral) with the project may be a possibility for interested candidates.

We are looking for a research assistant to work with us to collect data relating to Inuit well-being and experiences of stress. The research assistant will complete semi-structured interviews focused on exploring Inuit concepts of well-being and assessing stress and cultural consonance.

The Sanguatsiniq project focuses on cultural and economic change in two Inuit communities in the Canadian Arctic, Kangiqsujuaq and Ulukhaktok: sanguatsiniq.github.io

Job announcement 🚨: paid fieldwork opportunity with Sanguatsiniq research project! Details in thread ⬇️ Please share!