This book addresses the growing demand for collaborative and reflexive scholarly engagement in the Arctic aimed at providing relevant insights to tackle local challenges of arctic communities. It examines how arctic research can come to matter in new ways by combining methods and engagement in the field of inquiry in new, meaningful ways.

Anne Merrild Hansen is professor in planning and impact assessment in the Arctic at Aalborg University and the head of the Research Platform AAU Arctic at Aalborg University. Her research is focused on social impact assessment in relation to extractive industries in the Arctic.

Carina Ren is associate professor at the Centre for Innovation and Research in Culture and Living in the Arctic at Aalborg University and the platform coordinator of AAU Arctic. Carina researches connections between tourism and other fields of the social through cultural innovation, knowledge collaboration and capacity building.

1. Collaborative Research Methods in the Arctic - Why and How? Part 1: New Positionalities and Reflections in Research 2. Telling the Good Story: A Conversation With Minik Rosing on Research Collaboration and Research in Greenland 3. Participatory Principles in Arctic Health Research 4. Arctic Auto-Ethnography: Unsettling Colonial Research Relations Part 2: Case Examples 5. Industrial Development in Nuuk and Sermersooq: Empowerment Through Action Research 6. Collaboration to Secure Relevance and Quality in a Study of EIA Practise in Extractive Industries in the Arctic 7. Critical Proximity in Arctic Research: Reflections from the Arctic Winter Games 2016 8. Life Mapping: A Collaborative Approach to Tourism Collaboration in Greenland Part 3: Knowledge Collaboration Beyond Research 9. Development of Jurisprudence Research Through Engagement of Students 10. Recruiting and Retaining Labour in Greenland - A PhD Project in Close Cooperation With Local Stakeholders 11. Co-Creating Knowledge for and With the Arctic: Future Avenues