NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Lantz, Trevor C.
Licensed Year(s): 2022 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4753. The core objective of this research is to work with Inuvialuit and Gwich’in experts to document and share local observations of environmental conditions. Over time this will build a record of observations, against which future changes can be compared. To document local observations this research will employ methods in...

Principal Investigator: Barker, Anne
Licensed Year(s): 2021
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4916. The overall objective of this project is to investigate how Indigenous clothing components could be a part of harsh weather personal protective equipment (PPE), leading to increased personal safety and security in Arctic environments. There are four main tasks for the research project, described briefly here. Fo...

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: McMahon, Rob
Licensed Year(s): 2021 2020 2019
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4885. Along with research outcomes regarding digital technology adoption and use, this project provides a strong foundation for sustainable, appropriate digital literacy training in the NWT, at a time of rapid development of digital infrastructure (through the Mackenzie Valley Fibre Link and other major investments). It inv...

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: Ashthorn, Heather
Licensed Year(s): 2020 2019 2018 2017 2017 2015 2013 2012 2011 2009 2008 2006
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4632. The objective of this project is to document and assess changing environmental conditions in the range of the porcupine caribou herd and adjacent coastal and marine ecosystems and to share information for co-management. Community based monitors are selected by local Renewable Resource Boards (RRCs) or Hunters and T...

Principal Investigator: Logie, Carmen
Licensed Year(s): 2021
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4827. The objectives of this research are to build capacity and leadership in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention and research among Northern and Indigenous youth in the NWT; and, to evaluate the effect of arts-based HIV prevention programs on Northern and Indigenous youth’s HIV and sexually transmitted infection ...

Principal Investigator: Milligan, Crystal
Licensed Year(s): 2020
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4673. The Gwich’in Tribal Council (GTC) has designed a research project related to health and wellness in Gwich’in communities. The information gathered from this project will be used for GTC activities in two areas: youth cultural identity, and medical travel. It will also be used to identify strategic priorities for the G...

Principal Investigator: Jaffe, Peter
Licensed Year(s): 2020 2019 2018 2017
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4661. The purpose of the Canadian Domestic Homicide Prevention Initiative with Vulnerable Populations (CDHPIVP) is to enhance and inform domestic violence risk assessment, risk management and safety planning strategies in order to decrease the risk of lethality for particular vulnerable populations (i.e., Indigenous people;...

Principal Investigator: Parlee, Brenda L
Licensed Year(s): 2019 2019 2019 2017 2016
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4369. Tracking Change: Local and Traditional Knowledge in Watershed Governance is a six-year research program funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and led by the University of Alberta, Mackenzie River Basin Board, and the Government of the Northwest Territories in collaboration with many other value...