Licences in: Inuvialuit Settlement Region

Implications of Environmental Securitization on Sustainable Development of the Beaufort Sea Coastline

Principal Investigator: Barnes, Justin
Licensed Year(s): 2018
Summary: This research project will attempt to determine if one of the Canadian federal government’s primary policy approaches to exert its authority over its Arctic territories and territorial waters has been to ‘securitize’ environmental issues that it perceives as vulnerabilities or risks to the state. Ultimately, the purpose of this research project is to determine the degree at which environmental sec...

Supporting Food Security in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region: Working with Communities to Integrate Participatory Methods, Tools and Knowledge

Principal Investigator: Wesche, Sonia D
Licensed Year(s): 2018 2017 2016 2015
Summary: Building on the long-standing research collaboration, the research team will: 1) work with community Research Assistants to conduct a public engagement process in the six Inuvialuit Settlement Region (ISR) communities; 2) identify and prioritize existing and desired community-based initiatives to support food security in terms of country food, market food and locally-produced food, recognizing the...

Challenging Norms: Exploring the materiality of gender in the Western Canadian Arctic

Principal Investigator: Goodwin, Rebecca L
Licensed Year(s): 2018
Summary: This project will use ethnographic methods to document the relationships that descendant communities and heritage professionals have with gendered objects, both archaeological and modern. Historically, archaeologists have created and maintained a simplistic and binary understanding of gender in their documentation of Inuvialuit cultural history, without considering their own role in the creation o...

Integrating Gwich’in and Inuvialuit perspectives into a community school in the Northwest Territories: a case study

Principal Investigator: Debassige, Brent
Licensed Year(s): 2018
Summary: The goal of this study is to investigate how teachers, staff, and community members are integrating Inuvialuit and Gwich’in issues, perspectives, and languages in one school in the Northwest Territories. The information gathered from this case study will help to inform and improve professional development opportunities offered in the school. In this basic qualitative study, the research support st...

HBSC - Health Behaviour in School-aged Children

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...

Sustainable Water Governance and Indigenous Law Project

Principal Investigator: Bakker, Karen
Licensed Year(s): 2018 2017
Summary: The goal is to enhance effective, equitable Indigenous co-governance of water resources through pursuing five objectives: 1)Critically conceptualize the potential for reciprocal coordination of, and complementarity between, evolving common ("Western") and Indigenous water law and governance frameworks; 2)Develop innovative methods for co-researching Indigenous Water Governance, based on collabor...

Exploring Indigenous Digital Literacy with Gwich'in Tribal Council Department of Heritage

Principal Investigator: McMahon, Rob
Licensed Year(s): 2018 2017
Summary: This project builds on a successful pilot held in Summer 2017 to support an emerging research partnership between the University of Alberta and the Gwich'in Tribal Council (GTC) that focuses on Digital Content and Connectivity in the North. The project partners are jointly developing free two-day workshops on this topic to be held in the Gwich'in communities (Fort McPherson/Tsiigehtchic, Aklavik a...

Breaking Trail: Developing community-engaged curriculum with former residential schools students in the NWT

Principal Investigator: Porter, Dave M
Licensed Year(s): 2018 2017
Summary: The objectives of this project are: 1) to document the community engagement and curriculum development process and provide a visual representation of the process; 2) to explore the experiences of community stakeholders who participated in the process; 3) to share the strengths and weaknesses of this curriculum development approach from the perspective of community participants and government; a...

Government of Northwest Territories - Inuvik Wind Design Basis and Performance Specification: Traditional Knowledge and Traditional Land Use Workshop

Principal Investigator: Higginson, Deanna
Licensed Year(s): 2018
Summary: The purpose of conducting the one-day traditional knowledge and land use workshop is to learn more about traditional land use in the project area, and to better understand through the traditional knowledge of Indigenous people in the Inuvik area about the potential effects that the project may have on the land and resources (including plants, wildlife, birds, etc.). More specifically, the obje...

Human-Beluga Relations and Subsistence Hunting in Aklavik, NT

Principal Investigator: Worden, Elizabeth G
Licensed Year(s): 2018 2017
Summary: The aim of the proposed research is to improve understanding of human-beluga whale relations over time and the implications of change for subsistence livelihoods in Aklavik. The aim will be achieved through three objectives: 1) to document and describe the role and importance of subsistence hunting in the community of Aklavik, with a specific focus on human-beluga relations; 2) to examine local ...