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Effective Community Engagement Course
A self-paced, on-demand, e-course
You can identify and engage Arctic community partners in equitable and effective ways!
Course Features
5 Skills-Based Modules with 5 Lesson Each
- 60-min modules will easily fit into your busy schedule!
- Identifying and Approaching Community Partners
- Organizing Community Partnerships Effectively and Equitably
- Preparing a Plan That Works for Both Research and Community Needs
- Best Practices: Feedback, Adjustment, Change, and Conflict
- Articulating Your Engagement Plan with Partners and Funders
Certificate
- List your certificate on your CV, in federal grant proposals, and more!
12 Months Access to Group Mentoring
- You can build your community of practice at the monthly Group Mentoring Sessions
- Sessions are recorded, transcribed, and accessible in course library
Model Language to Help you Spring into Action
- Approaching community partners email templates
- Tribal Nation Approval (PAPPG 24-1 changes) request emails and Tribal Nation Approval templates
- NSF “Safe and Inclusive Working Environments” (SAIF) Plan
- NSF “Ethical Considerations and Approaches of the Proposed Work” Narrative
Course Materials
Empower your research with these action-oriented course materials
This course is online, asynchronous, and self-paced so it can fit into your busy schedule. You’ll also be able to interact with us live during our monthly group mentoring sessions!
You’ll have access to an extensive collection of over 10 resources that will guide you step-by-step through the complex processes in research development. These resources will help you to support both community partner and institutional research partner goals.
Participants have enthusiastically reported that the materials themselves were well worth the tuition.
Plus, your enrollment fee grants you lifetime access to the course. This means you’ll always have access to the latest updates, from new modules and lessons to refreshed course materials. Stay ahead with the latest in effective community engagement!
In just 5 modules, you will enhance your confidence and your capacity to establish and sustain productive, equitable relationships and collaborations with Indigenous communities in Arctic research. Whether you are a grad student or a seasoned scholar with years of research experience, this course will hone your tools to co-create innovative outcomes that benefit both the local community and the research community.
In our course, you will receive all the tools you’ll need to get started with working effectively in community research partnerships in the Arctic. This course provides valuable and action-oriented course materials and instruction that will guide you step-by-step towards identifying and approaching community partners, organizing community partnerships effectively and equitably, preparing a plan that works for both research and community needs, facing changes and challenges in community partnerships, and articulating your engagement plan to stakeholders and funders.
What’s more, this course will help you to look at research and its scientific and societal potential in new and exciting ways. We will demonstrate that you don’t have to stop “doing science” or using quantitative methods in order to work effectively with Arctic Indigenous community partners towards common goals. Let us show you how to find that collaborative sweet spot!
Your instructors – Corina Qaaġraq Kramer and Dr. Cana Uluak Itchuaqiyaq – have designed a course that is organized, effective, and doable. Let them help you to build community in the Arctic and with other Arctic scholars.
Dr. Kevin Walters
Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Alaska Fairbanks
“This was such an excellent, excellent course. Cana & Corina clearly put so much time, thought, energy, love, and humility into developing everything here. And it showed. Genuinely don’t think I’ve ever seen people so engaged and ‘honed in’ to a workshop before. The content and materials are all designed (beautifully, at that) to be helpful, fun, reflective, and easy to follow. All I had to do was show up and do the work with an open mind–and I feel fortunate and better off for it.
All to say–hats off to Cana & Corina for the excellent service that this course provides. 10/10 would recommend as essential training for anyone collaborating with Arctic or Native communities. Your ‘village CV’ will thank you later! “
Dr. Chelsea Wegner Koch
Assistant Professor of Environmental Science, American University
“The Effective Community Engagement course is the sort of guidance I have been looking for. Cana and Corina guided us through a clear, step-by-step processes for identifying and approaching partners, offering invaluable insights from the community perspective. They did so with humor, humility, and a deep understanding of all aspects involved with research.
The course also provided me with ideas to explore specific planning grants, which I had not previously considered. Additionally, the templates will be a great resource to build the right framing for that initial “cold call” I will need to make with partners. I am sincerely grateful for this experience and would highly recommend it to anyone interested in equitable Arctic research at any career stage.“
Real people with research-changing results
Yuqing Wang
PhD student in Natural Resources and Sustainability Management, University of Alaska Fairbanks
“As a beginner-stage researcher, I initially felt unprepared and unfamiliar with Arctic Research and Community-based research topics. That was until I enrolled in the ECE course.
Cana and Corina, the course instructors, played a pivotal role in transforming my experience. They not only provided me with sufficient resources and clear instructions but also took the time to affirm that I possessed the necessary skills. This encouragement significantly boosted my confidence to enter the arena of research.”