Indigenous Leadership in Research
Place: Tromsø, Norway
NordForsk and UiT The Arctic University of Norway invite to this side event at Arctic Frontiers 2025.
Indigenous communities and perspectives are often underrepresented, both within and outside academia. One important way to address this is by encouraging young people to assume leadership roles in research.
However, this is challenging to achieve. Many young people from Indigenous backgrounds choose not to pursue higher education, preferring instead to work in primary industries. Furthermore, structural, institutional, and linguistic barriers—such as the tendency to undervalue or overlook Indigenous knowledge systems, and a lack of understanding of Indigenous participation—can lead young talents to opt out of leadership roles in research.