Researchers should premise their work on an understanding that in CBA, how knowledge is generated is as important as the research outcomes. Researchers need to be cognizant of key principles of CBA, including codeveloping projects with communities who are engaged as partners, utilizing locally appropriate and approved theories and methodologies that respect the history, culture, values, and wishes of a community, while recognizing that each community is different in terms of their expectations and needs. Researchers working in indigenous communities also need to understand the colonial history and culture in which they work, and consider the underlying power dynamics shaping collaborations. Personal relationships and reciprocity underpin these principles,72, 82, 115 yet projects may fail or encounter substantial challenges even if these principles are adhered to; this is the very nature of CBA. Such challenges and failures should not be sanitized when work is presented but fully reported on. Accurately describing methodological processes and actions undertaken to secure community acceptance and support is essential for broader learning by the CBA community. Moreover, although ethical social science research always requires community consent, researchers should not necessarily be dissuaded from topics that do not imply or require a high degree of participation, or from initiating research ideas that may be of merit but fall outside immediate community priorities (such as maintaining a climate change focus, including future orientation).