NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Bott, Gloria
Licensed Year(s): 2023 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5680. The main objective of this research project is to provide insight into Aurora College nursing students’ experiences in northern Norway. The research question is: What is the lived educational experience of Canadian nursing students in northern Norway? To answer the research question, photovoice - a qualitative pa...

Principal Investigator: Mossmann, Bouchra Emilia
Licensed Year(s): 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5694. The main objective of this research project is to clarify how Muslims who live around the Arctic Circle make sense of Islam. In the Arctic Circle, Muslim religious traditions seem more challenged than elsewhere. For example, because of the extreme light conditions. Thus, the research team would like to explore: 1...

Principal Investigator: Rosabal, Maikel
Licensed Year(s): 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 55584. Considering the results obtained in our previous studies on fish and invertebrates, our main goal is to generate a specific knowledge about the implications of metals bioaccumulated observed in the population of northern pike and invertebrates (H. azteca) inhabiting ecosystems located in this mining region. Our spec...

Principal Investigator: Gibson, Ryan
Licensed Year(s): 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5683. The study aims to fill in a literature gap describing government land policy, legislation and regulations in the Northwest Territories historically, and further aims to answer the following questions: - What has been the impact of government land legislation, regulation and policy on housing in the NWT? - How has g...

Principal Investigator: Jacobs, Philip
Licensed Year(s): 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5692. The purpose of this research project is to develop an economic model to estimate the costs and benefits of the nurse residency program. The model will incorporate the duration of employment for newly hired registered nurses, before and during their residency. The research team will obtain anonymous data from par...

Principal Investigator: Kirby, Sophie Aurélie
Licensed Year(s): 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5528. This project will explore the research question: would integration of trust-based philanthropy principles be a feasible way of preventing and alleviating power imbalances between funders and grantees in the Northwest Territories, and if so, how? In particular, the researchers are interested in how a trust-based phila...

Principal Investigator: McGeer, Jim
Licensed Year(s): 2023 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5681. The objectives of this research project are to: 1) develop data on the aquatic toxicology of rare earth elements in northern ecosystems; 2) to contribute to water quality criteria for these metals. Three types of sample collections are proposed. These would be done at selected sites along the Ingraham Trail (hi...

Principal Investigator: Dahlvik, Julia
Licensed Year(s): 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5497. This research project pursues a dual perspective: it is interested in both the experiences of citizens and the practices and strategies of public ombuds institutions, that is, what measures they take to ensure equal access to justice for all in the context of increasingly digitalized public services, and with what ef...

Principal Investigator: Malik, Hunaifa
Licensed Year(s): 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5633. This research project is intended to produce a list of existing data characteristics or analysis methods that can be modified to address the unique barriers and opportunities for data-based policymaking in the NWT. This list is intended to identify best practices for conducting evidence-based policymaking in data-sca...

Principal Investigator: Henderson, Rita
Licensed Year(s): 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5629. Research Question: What unexpected or unusual changes in wildlife populations have researchers, community members, and professionals from various sectors observed while living or working in the Arctic? The main objectives are to: - Identify any potential, previously unknown unusual wildlife events (e.g. altered b...