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Using visual methods to engage indigenous youth and community members in cross-site, international analysis: a methodological study

Using visual methods to engage indigenous youth and community members in cross-site, international analysis: a methodological study

The multi-sited research project involves youth, adults and elders from five Indigenous communities in Siberia, northwest Alaska, southwest Alaska, Canada, and northern Norway in collaborative analysis of the differences and similarities of youth’s experiences in their transition to adulthood through the process of producing video films.

Dr Ulturgasheva involved Siberian Eveny youth in the production of a digital community portrait and an auto-ethnographic video film “One day from my life” which were screened at the international Circumpolar Indigenous Pathways to Adulthood (CIPA) study workshop at Smithsonian Museum of Natural history in Washington DC in October 2012.

Digital presentations of the research findings stimulated the comparative discussion among the workshop participants from five Arctic communities.

The project is undergoing its final stage which involves analysis of the workshop outcomes for the indigenous youth and for the university researchers involved in the participatory and co-learning research process.

Dr Olga Ulturgasheva has been awarded a research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for this project. Dr Ulturgasheva is the Project Director for the Cambridge sub-award (£20,000).

CIPA youth with Ulturgasheva and Rasmus