NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Parlee, Brenda L
Licensed Year(s): 2013
Summary: The research is aimed at learning more about the experiences of new Canadians (e.g., landed immigrants, temporary workers), who have moved to Inuvik and Yellowknife for employment. Specifically the researcher will ask questions about: a) perceptions of "a good life" in Inuvik and Yellowknife; b) perceptions of the benefits and challenges of the local economy; and c) the level of support and sha...

Principal Investigator: Pearce, Tristan D
Licensed Year(s): 2010
Summary: The researcher will work in collaboration with community members, local stakeholders, scientists and policy makers to develop adaptation plans that address climate change vulnerabilities in the subsistence economies in two communities in the ISR. The project will use participatory methods to develop adaptation plans in the case study communities: • Secondary sources of information: Existin...

Principal Investigator: Rawluk, Andrea
Licensed Year(s): 2011 2009
Summary: The objective of this project is to learn more about how different generations in Aklavik respond to changes both in the community and on the land with an idea that is called “intergenerational resilience”. In particular, the project looks to learn what “resilience” means to Gwich’in community members in Aklavik, understand how individuals, households, and communities work with and adapt to chang...

Principal Investigator: Salokangas, Raila M
Licensed Year(s): 2007
Summary: The goal of this research is to investigate the meaning of education for Inuvialuit youth and their families in the community of Tuktoyaktuk, specifically; how has the meaning of education changed for the Inuvialuit families? Further, how has education contributed to social change and how does social change contribute to changes in education? Also, is the meaning for education different for local ...

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...

Principal Investigator: Wenzel, George W.
Licensed Year(s): 1984
Summary: (1) Anthropologically define the various dimensional contexts in which ringed seal hunting contributes to the functioning of Inuit society. (2) Evaluate the effects in the limiting or ideological grounding of the anti-sealing protest movement has done. (3) Analysis of Inuit responses to this conflict situation....

Principal Investigator: Grant, Shelagh
Licensed Year(s): 1981
Summary: To conduct a survey of local peoples' opinion on the effects of World War Ii and their perceptions of the effects of WW II and how it changed such things as health care, education and government policy. This is the background to an M.A. history thesis....