NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Linden, Brooke
Licensed Year(s): 2020
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4799. The purpose of the current project is to conduct a cross-Canada, multi-site release of the Post-Secondary Student Stressors Index (PSSI). This study will take the form of a longitudinal, cross-Canada, multi-site release of the PSSI. This will allow us to further evaluate the tool in a larger sample with broad regional...

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: Sharma, Sangita
Licensed Year(s): 2020 2019 2018
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4695. The research team aim to learn about the health status of older adults, access to, and use of health services in Inuvik and Yellowknife to inform culturally-relevant, community-led programs for caregivers and older adults in NWT. The objectives include: 1) Hearing from Indigenous older adults (aged 50+) about expe...

Principal Investigator: Hoover, Carie
Licensed Year(s): 2020
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4601. The study conducted by the Canadian Ocean Literacy Coalition (COLC) researchers (at multiple universities across Canada) will contribute new knowledge to emerging regional, national, and international research and practices related to Ocean Literacy (OL) by developing uniquely Canadian interpretations and approaches t...

Principal Investigator: Bagnall, Desiree
Licensed Year(s): 2020
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4598. The purpose of this case study is to bridge the knowledge gap between western ways of knowing and Inuvialuit ways of knowing of climate change, mitigation, vulnerability, adaptation, and resiliency and how this correlates with community tourism development as a strategy for economic diversification. The research quest...

Principal Investigator: McHugh, Tara-Leigh
Licensed Year(s): 2019
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4607. The objective of this community-based participatory research (CBPR) is to examine the emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual (i.e., holistic) benefits of participating in northern games for Indigenous youth. To address the research objective, two exploratory research questions will be addressed: 1) How does partic...

Principal Investigator: Tod-Tims, Cahley
Licensed Year(s): 2019
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4504. The primary goal of this research is to examine the following research questions using qualitative methods: 1) between whom, involving the transfer of which resources (food, money, equipment), and under what circumstances is country food currently exchanged? and, 2) what are the local desires for and concerns towards ...

Principal Investigator: Collings, Peter F
Licensed Year(s): 2019
Summary: The objective of this project is to develop a research proposal to the National Science Foundation's Arctic Social Science Program in which the communities will be Co-Investigators on the project and the research will be managed and coordinated by community members themselves. This research proposal will investigate issues of health and wellness important to community members and work to develop l...

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...