NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Fraser, Crystal G
Licensed Year(s): 2013
Summary: The researcher is examining the history of education in the Northwest Territories from 1940 to 1996. The objectives of this project are three-fold: 1) developing a historical narrative explaining the changing nature of education during the time frame; 2) interacting with community members to bring Aboriginal voice and perspective to academic research; and 3) reflect on northern history in regional...

Principal Investigator: Fraser, Crystal G
Licensed Year(s): 2013
Summary: The researcher is examining the history of education in the Northwest Territories from 1940 to 1996. The objectives of this project are three-fold: 1) developing a historical narrative explaining the changing nature of education during the time frame 2) interacting with community members to bring Aboriginal voice and perspective to academic research 3) reflect on northern history in regional setti...

Principal Investigator: Douglas, Vasiliki K
Licensed Year(s): 2012 2010
Summary: The purpose of this project is to assist the Inuvialuit in adaptation planning that will meet ongoing environmental and social challenges, while also maintaining their rights under the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The existing knowledge, skills and networks that facilitate such adaptations are important community ‘assets’ that form the basis of capacity-building. The goal ...

Principal Investigator: Lyons, Natasha L.
Licensed Year(s): 2010 2009
Summary: This study will facilitate the interaction of Inuvialuit community members with a museum collection purchased from their forebears on the Anderson River in the mid 19th century, and will document present-day Inuvialuit knowledge about this collection. The project will also generate opportunities to build capacity amongst youth in videography and ethnographic documentation techniques. Finally, proj...

Principal Investigator: Ouellette, Nathalie
Licensed Year(s): 2009
Summary: The goal of this oral history project is to learn about and document the significance of the Roman Catholic Mission House and Notre Dame de Lourdes Grotto in Paulatuk for community members through their experiences and recollections of various events associated with the mission. The Researcher wishes to document all aspects of the mission, related but not limited to subjects such as religious life...

Principal Investigator: Cooper, Elizabeth J
Licensed Year(s): 2009
Summary: The researcher is working on an MA thesis, and this research is part of the thesis work. The thesis is ethno-historic meaning that the researcher is interested to have community stories as well as the stories from information that is already written. Stories of interest are of when the hospitals were open as well as before and after they closed. Semi-structured interviews will be conducted wit...

Principal Investigator: Gowman, Joel A
Licensed Year(s): 2008
Summary: This license has been issued for the scientific research application #889. The goal of this research is to determine the environmental impacts present at the BAR-C – Tununuk site and to develop estimates of the various waste components (hydrocarbon and metal/PCB impacted soils, non-hazardous materials, and hazardous materials). INAC is focused on accelerating the remediation of contaminated si...

Principal Investigator: Fritz, Stacey A.
Licensed Year(s): 2008
Summary: This licence was issued for the application no. 832. The objective of this study is to investigate what people think about the DEW Line radar stations, and write a dissertation that describes how the DEW Line impacted the Arctic socially and environmentally. The researchers will be traveling across the Arctic coast by canoe equipped with sail rigs. They are driving to Fort McPherson from Al...

Principal Investigator: Ayers, Harvard G
Licensed Year(s): 2008 2007
Summary: The researchers plan to interview about 80 people over two years, mostly local community members, and to publish the interviews in book form to bring the voices of these people to the Canadian and American public. The Arctic region of Alaska and western Canada is known for its abundant energy resources and wildlife species, but the area cannot be understood simply as a disembodied collection o...

Principal Investigator: Pearce, Tristan D
Licensed Year(s): 2007
Summary: This project will partner with the community of Ulukhaktok and involve community youth as researchers to develop an understanding of how social change and climate change interact to affect the functioning and well-being of arctic communities, specifically for younger generation community members. The research methods in this study will be applied via an open and evolving process directed in col...