Research
This film emerged from a community-based and community-led research project dedicated to examining the connections between climate change and Inuit mental health in Nunatsiavut, Labrador. The Inuit Mental Health and Adaptation to Climate Change (IMHACC) project was a joint partnership among the five Inuit communities of Nunatsiavut, under the guidance of the Rigolet Inuit Community Government, and became the first regional assessment of climate change and mental health in the Circumpolar North. Data were gathered by Local Research Coordinators in each of the five communities who, together, conducted 120 interviews with community members and health professionals throughout the region. The ‘My Word’: Storytelling and Digital Media Lab in Rigolet also facilitated the creation of 17 digital stories made by Inuit in the region.
Research Papers:
- From this Place and Of this Place – Cunsolo Willox et al., Social Science & Medicine, 2012
- The Land Enriches the Soul – Cunsolo Willox et al., Emotion, Space, & Society, 2013
- Climate Change and Mental Health – Cunsolo Willox et al., Climatic Change, 2013
- Climate Change as The Work of Mourning – Cunsolo Willox, Ethics & the Environment, 2012
- Examining Relationships between Climate Change and Mental Health in the Circumpolar North – Cunsolo Willox et al., Regional Environmental Change, 2014
- Climate change: The next challenge for public mental health? – Bourque and Cunsolo Willox, International Review of Psychiatry, 2014