I am an environmental social scientist whose research focuses on the governance and ethics of collaborative and community-engaged research in Arctic social-ecological systems. My work examines how co-production of knowledge is practiced and how institutional structures, funding arrangements, and power relations shape who participates in research, whose knowledge is valued, and who benefits from research outcomes.
Drawing on long-term engagement in the Arctic, including work with the Native Village of Gambell (St. Lawrence Island, Alaska), my research combines qualitative interviews, document analysis, and institutional analysis to understand how researchers, Indigenous community members, and organizations navigate collaboration under conditions of inequality, uncertainty, and environmental change. A central aim of my work is to identify what communities themselves define as “good” research and how these expectations align (or conflict) with academic and funding-driven models of collaboration.