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Social scientist, Knowledge bridging,
Wildlife conservation

I work within multiple knowledge systems to reach a bigger picture understanding of wildlife, focusing on knowledge accessibility, legislation connections, co-management, and community-based research.

In my PhD research, I sought to think critically about how Inuit knowledge is mobilized in co-management efforts for the "Dolphin and Union" caribou. I worked with many different policy actors (rights- and stakeholders). Through interviews with harvesters and Elders, we increased our collaborative understanding of these caribou and how to care for them. Today, I am finishing a book based on Inuit Elder interviews about the caribou.

My Work

I am passionate about impactful engagement and community-based and guided research. I work hard to think systemically, to be aware of and address cognitive dissonance, to ensure my work holds integrity, and to strive toward transformative outcomes for Indigenous communities.
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    Publications

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    Caribou Conservation Guided, Enacted, and Embodied by Inuinnait and the Killinikmiut Tuktuit

    This is my doctoral thesis, where I sought to support the co-management partners for the Killinikmiut Tuktuit by advancing our collaborative understanding of the status and trends of the Killinikmiut Tuktuit with Inuinnait Knowledge and how Inuinnait Knowledge around the Killinikmiut Tuktuit is situated.
    Author: Andrea Hanke, Doctoral thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada · May 13, 2024
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    Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems · Jan 5, 2024

    Supporting Inuit food sovereignty through collaborative research of an at-risk caribou herd

    This paper was a chapter in my doctoral thesis, where I worked with Inuit harvesters to document their insights about the “Dolphin and Union” caribou herd. The second objective of this paper was to put our findings into the broader literature on the DU caribou herd and connect isolated data on their abundance and distribution.
    Author(s): Andrea Hanke, Amanda Niptanatiak Dumond, Juliette Di Francesco, Cindy Lou Adams, Terry Milton, Lisa-Marie Leclerc, Beverly Maksagak, Rosemin Nathoo, Amélie Roberto-Charron, Gwendolyn Blue, Susan Kutz
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    Joint Secretariat · Jul 1, 2023

    A three-staged story towards caribou conservation: Ulukhaktokmiut reports on ‘Dolphin and Union’ and Peary caribou in 2011-2014 and suggested conservation efforts in 2022

    This report was a contracted project with the Wildlife Management Advisory Council (NWT) to finish an old interview study done by the Government of Northwest Territories on the “Dolphin and Union” and Peary caribou herds.
    Author(s): Andrea Hanke
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