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Caring for the North (CFN) is bringing together faculty, students, and community partners with local, national, and international expertise to develop a northern research program and the capacity to explore this in the critical areas of gender, care, and northern places. In northern communities, changing social, political, and economic contexts have resulted in shifting perceptions of both 'gender' and 'care' - changes that have significant consequences for northern residents. The symposium will create a forum for explicitly considering these changes, making space to design meaningful research which will best serve people in northern places. This collaborative research agenda will address the fundamental issues of gender and care as they affect the well-being of people in northern places.

Conference participants will include representatives from Geography, Gender Studies, First Nations Studies, Social Work, Community Nursing, Psychology, Education, and others, together with community organizations, community members, and students. By building on existing research relationships, the symposium will foster new research partnerships and set in motion an ongoing forum for collectively pursuing future research directions. This event will strengthen links between north and south, between community members and researchers, and between Canada and international research communities.