NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

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: 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: 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: 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: Power, Ellen
Licensed Year(s): 2018
Summary: The research goal is to document community stories of Cosmos 954 and radiation risk in Fort Resolution and Lutselk’e, NT. In gathering these stories, the Principal Investigator (PI) will compile a community-based oral history of Cosmos 954 and Operation Morning Light in these northern communities. This research seeks to answer the following questions: How did community residents experience and rem...

Principal Investigator: Fresque-Baxter, Jennifer
Licensed Year(s): 2018
Summary: The Aurora Research Institute (ARI) and Government of the Northwest Territories Department of Environment and Natural Resources (ENR) have joined with research partners in communities, Canadian universities, and throughout the NWT, including the Northwest Territories Métis Nation (NWTMN), to conduct research on the state of country food systems in the Northwest Territories (NWT). Jennifer Fresque-...

Principal Investigator: Pruys, Sarah
Licensed Year(s): 2018
Summary: The first objective of this research is to explore established and emerging research on how Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) and Traditional Knowledge (TK) interact in Canada and across the world, and examine what solutions have been proposed thus far. The Principal Investigator (PI) will build on this research by working in collaboration with local Indigenous communities using a community-based...

Principal Investigator: Pickett, William
Licensed Year(s): 2018 2005 2002
Summary: The study titled, Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC), is a cross-national research project conducted by the Social Program Evaluation Group (SPEG) at Queen’s University in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO Europe) and the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC). The HBSC study aims to gain insight into, and increase understanding of, the health behaviours and attitud...

Principal Investigator: Fresque-Baxter, Jennifer
Licensed Year(s): 2019 2018
Summary: The Aurora Research Institute (ARI) and Government of the Northwest Territories Department of Environment and Natural Resources (ENR) have joined with research partners in communities, Canadian universities, and throughout the Northwest Territories (NWT), including Akaitcho Territory Government, to conduct research on the state of country food systems in the NWT. Jessica Dutton and Jennifer Fresqu...

Principal Investigator: Newhouse, David
Licensed Year(s): 2018
Summary: The centrepiece of the National Collaborative Centre of Indigenous Education (NCCIE) is a website that educators, practitioners, policy makers, and others will be able to access to learn about examples of best practices in Indigenous education found across the country. The website’s primary goal is to serve as an on-line library and resource centre whereby educators/practitioners can connect in a ...