NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Giles, Audrey R.
Licensed Year(s): 2016 2015
Summary: There are three objectives for this research project: I) Understand Northwest Territories (NWT) resident male boaters’ behaviours and attitudes towards water safety. Given that rates of drowning are higher in the NWT, it would be dangerous to assume that male NWT residents have the same attitudes and behaviours concerning boat safety as their female and non-NWT resident counterparts. In particula...

Principal Investigator: Hampton, Mary
Licensed Year(s): 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011
Summary: This study will: 1. Integrate several sources of data to create an action plan that maps the socio-spatial problem of intimate partner Violence; 2. Create narratives describing community response in rural and northern areas of the Prairie Provinces and the NWT; and 3. Generate a grounded theory as a practical tool to create and sustain non-violent communities in these regions of Canada. The...

Principal Investigator: Povey, Andrew
Licensed Year(s): 2003 2002
Summary: This project is a continuation of socio-economic and traditional knowledge studies in the Sahtu Settlement Area, which were initiated in 2002 as part of the baseline studies and assessment for the Mackenzie Gas Project. The primary focus of the socio-ec...

Principal Investigator: Grieve, Anne Jane
Licensed Year(s): 2002
Summary: This research has been developed in full collaboration with the Deline Land Corporation which is sponsoring the research. The purpose of this research is to explore how the Deline Land Corporation can build leadership capacity for the long-term managemen...

Principal Investigator: Snortland, Judy
Licensed Year(s): 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1998
Summary: The Harvest Study is a 5 year, 5 community study being conducted in the Sahtu Settlement. Each month, in each community, a local interviewer recommended by the local Renewable Resource Council collects harvest information in their community using a brief face-to-face interview. All adult Sahtu Dene-Metis (16yrs +) and a select group of adult non-beneficiaries who provide for their Dene-Metis famil...

Principal Investigator: Scott, Ray
Licensed Year(s): 1998
Summary: The research project will be carried out in four phases. Phase I will be a review of current literature regarding indicators of successful teams, stages of development in SECT and means by which organizations can support SECTs. Phase II will be to devise a questionnaire for participants to complete. The questionnaire will be given to groups of people and will rate present quality of work life. The...