Saskia de Wildt
Affiliate Scholar
The proposed cooperation to be pursued under affiliate status builds on the close connections that were built with the group during the research fellowship. We will continue close exchanges on themes around ethics, methods, and decolonial research approaches through attendance of the monthly group meetings, prepare shared submissions to conference panels at Arctic conferences (e.g. IASSA, or UArctic congress), and the writing of a joint publication with Dr. Anne Chahine that covers the 'Mx. Science' intra-vention that was co-designed by Saskia de Wildt and Anne Chahine. The affiliate status is of mutual benefit. It allows Saskia de Wildt to apply for specific Grants and scholarships that require institutional affiliations, and publish on their fellow activities at RIFS, from an "inside" perspective. The group benefits from the relationship in terms of regular methodological exchange, and the collaboration on the envisioned publications and conference submissions.
- 2026 Jan-Feb: Postdoc position, University of Graz
- 2025 April-Dec: Research Fellow - RIFS
- 2019 – 2025: PhD Candidate, School of Environmental Studies – Queens University
- 2023 Feb-Okt: Senior researcher/Team manager, School of Applied Sciences, Amsterdam, lectorate Creative Media for Social Change
- 2018 – 2019: Arts-based / Action Researcher School of Applied Sciences Utrecht - lectorate of quality journalism (https://www.journalismlab.nl/)
- 2016 – current: Conceptual designer / Impact producer / Visual storyteller (www.gingertheworld.com)
- Onto-Epistemology
- GE3LS
- Arts-based research
- Creative methods
- Trans-disciplinarity
Selected Publications prior to joining the RIFS
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De Wildt, S., Qitsualik, J., Aglukkaq, W., Whitelaw, G., McClintock, K., Arlidge, S., Lougheed, S. & van Coeverden-de Groot., P. (2025) Voices of Thunder: Polar Bear Quota Reduction Impacts in Gjoa Haven, Nunavut. From Purveying Voices to Accepting Testimony. Journal of Arctic Science (submitted)
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De Wildt, S. (2024). Wayfaring as an ethical research practice of knowledge relating in Nunavut polar bear monitoring in Tennberg, M., Schell, J., Bravo, M. and V. Väätänen, (eds.) More-than-human entanglements in the Arctic. Publisher (accepted - forthcoming).
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McMaster, K.E.B., de Wildt, S., Mishos, S., Shardlow, E. and H. Castleden (2024). Getting Punk and Personal: Creating and Evaluating Podcasts and Zines as Pedagogy for Teaching and Learning in Critical Geographical Methodologies. The Journal of Geography in Higher Education
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De Wildt, S. (2024). Mx. Science [performance] Data Ball Taka Taka (curator). Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
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Qitsualik, J., Aglukkaq, W. and S. De Wildt (2023). Voices of Thunder [film] co-produced
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De Wildt, S. (2022). Mx. Science [artistic intervention]. Artic Science meeting.
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De Wildt, S. (2021). (Review of the book Colonialism and Animality: Anti-colonial Perspectives in Critical Animal Studies by Montfort, K.S and Taylor, C.) Canadian Geographer
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Hölsgens, S., Wildt, S. D., & Witschge, T. (2020). Walking the newsroom: towards a sensory experience of journalism. The Journal for Artistic Research, 21.
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Hölsgens, S., de Wildt, S., & Witschge, T. (2020). Towards an experientialist understanding of journalism: Exploring arts-based research for journalism studies. Journalism Studies, 21(7), 928-946.
- 2022: Art of Research: Winner Category Creative and Sustainable Communities 2022 Queen's University
- 2021: People's choice award: Best presentation 2021 The Queen's Northern Research Symposium (QNRS)
- 2021-2024: SSHRC VANIER CANADA GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP, Government of Canada
- 2021: NSTP Northern Scientific Training Program travelgrant, Northern Scientific Training Program travelgrant
- 2019: Prins Bernard Cultuurfonds studiebeurs, Cultuurfonds