NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Hobin, Erin P
Licensed Year(s): 2023 2022 2021
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5144. The study has five objectives: 1) To examine prevalence and patterns of non-medical cannabis use, including use among young adults, age of initiation, and levels of dependence; 2) To examine the cannabis retail environment, including the extent to which consumers shift from illicit sources to legal retail sources, and...

Principal Investigator: Supernant, Kisha
Licensed Year(s): 2021
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5038. The goals of this project are to: 1) learn from local Elders and knowledge keepers’ culturally appropriate ways of stewarding and protecting Indigenous knowledge; 2) explore critical issues including policies and guidelines for repatriation, building archives, and ensuring Indigenous data sovereignty; and 3) knowl...

Principal Investigator: Chugh, Pawan K
Licensed Year(s): 2021
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4930. The intention of this research is to capture and explore Indigenous people views on regulatory responses to cannabis and alcohol in Canada, with specific focus on cannabis prohibition versus the new Canadian cannabis legalization and different regulatory responses to alcohol that have been tried over time (free market...

Principal Investigator: Bowen, Jennifer Elizabeth
Licensed Year(s): 2021
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4855. This research project will explore where and how the daggers are exhibited in museums and cultural centres in the Yukon and the Northwest Territories. From the present understanding, there are no daggers in Northern Athapaskan cultural centres or community exhibits in the North. In local museums and emerging cultural ...

Principal Investigator: Penney, Neil P
Licensed Year(s): 2021
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4901. The students along with the Principal Investigator (PI) started a film-making program to enter a local film festival. The PI wishes to explore the experiences of young Indigenous students, grade 6-9, while they learn to make, create and share films. The film- making program has always been student driven, and I have d...

Principal Investigator: Labron, Meg
Licensed Year(s): 2021
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4850. The purpose of this research is to address the gap in social work knowledge and literature regarding how environmental social work practice is done (re: a clearly defined practice model), by speaking to social workers in the Northwest Territories who are doing this type of work. This thesis research has 4 objectiv...

Principal Investigator: Napier, Kyle William
Licensed Year(s): 2020
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4797. The goal of this project is to addresses the need for Dene leading their own Dene education through collaborative community work. The Principal Investigator (PI) will conduct an interview with participants to discuss Dëné Dédliné Yati?´, and Dëné ways of living and learning. Interviews will be held with Dëné in the...

Principal Investigator: Jaker, Alessandro M
Licensed Year(s): 2020
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4602. The ultimate goal of this study is to provide evidence for "metrical structure". That is, the idea that syllables in the language are organized into small groups called "feet", specifically what are called "iambic feet", which have the form (weak-strong)(weak-strong). There is evidence from looking at verb paradigms, ...

Principal Investigator: Moffitt, Pertice M
Licensed Year(s): 2019
Summary: The objectives of this research are to engage community partners in co-creation of best practices to prevent family violence, to share findings of a scoping review on best practices to prevent /end family violence, and to hear priorities from these implications from youth and elders in the communities. Demographic data (age, ethnicity, gender and exposure to violence) will be collected to desc...

Principal Investigator: Holton, Gary
Licensed Year(s): 2019 2018
Summary: The research objective is to document Sahtú Dene and Yellowknives Dene astronomy and sky-related knowledge as well as other supporting linguistic and cultural knowledge that may help contextualize the study. Results will appear in the researcher’s Ph.D. dissertation on Northern Dene astronomy and may be published in a book on the same topic at a later date. The research team will also produce educ...