In February 2025, UArctic and Lloyd's Register Foundation (LRF) announced the recipients of five research fellowships, funded by the Foundation through our new joint initiative "Maritime Safety: Learning from the Past to Address Challenges to the Safety of Peoples in the Arctic".
One of the funded projects is "Historical Accidents and Ships – Inuit Encounters in the North-West Passage", delivered by Professor Claudio Aporta and Associate Professor Anish Hebbar from the World Maritime University.
In their blog post published by LRF, Aporta and Hebbar discuss the industrial whaling era of the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the eastern Canadian Arctic, the resulting interactions between the Inuit and whalers, and how their new project will improve understanding of those interactions, with a particular focus on maritime-related knowledge exchanges and their implications in Arctic shipping safety.