Her research focuses on non-academic geographic knowledges. Dr. Collignon has been conducting fieldwork among the Inuit of the Western Canadian Arctic (Inuvialuit and Inuinnait) since the early 1990, studying toponymic systems, spatial orientation, oral tradition in relation to landscapes and worldviews, pre-settlement and contemporary domestic spaces. She is currently starting a study on short-term travels within and outside the Arctic of the Inuit of Canada in the recent years. She is the author of Knowing places - The Inuinnait, landscapes and the environnment, 2006, CCI Press, Edmonton, and of numerous articles and book chapters about the Inuit as well as about geography epistemologies.