Conference Registration Announcement
Northern Governance Policy Research Conference
Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada
3-5 November 2009
Early Registration Deadline: Tuesday, 15 September 2009
For further information, please go to:
http://ngprc.circumpolarhealth.org/
Or contact the conference chair:
Stephanie Irlbacher-Fox
Email: stephaniefox [at] theedge.ca
Registration is now open for the Northern Governance Policy Research
Conference, which will be held in Yellowknife, Canada at the Explorer
Hotel on 3-5 November 2009. This conference will be the first of its
kind in the Northwest Territories (NWT). It will bring together an
emerging resource of Northern community-based researchers to discuss
ways to connect effective research with policy development in Indigenous
and community organizations.
Specifically, the conference aims to:
- Empower and encourage resident northern scientists who serve as
researchers to nascent Indigenous and community organizations;
- Promote networking among researchers, decision makers, and
negotiators from across the NWT;
- Explore how research projects and their results contribute to
building the knowledge and capacity necessary to assist in
community, program, and service development, and for negotiating
rights-based agreements; and
- Make recommendations to government and funding agencies about the
needs for supporting and promoting community-based research that
responds to the needs and priorities of communities, rather than
priorities of governments, universities, or funding bodies.
The conference will focus on the Northwest Territories; however, issues
and challenges under discussion are relevant to Indigenous and Northern
communities in the Arctic generally.
The early registration deadline is Tuesday, 15 September 2009.
For further information, please go to:
http://ngprc.circumpolarhealth.org/
Or contact the conference chair:
Stephanie Irlbacher-Fox
Email: stephaniefox [at] theedge.ca