NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Walsh, David
Licensed Year(s): 2013
Summary: To examine Tlicho relationships with the environment, specifically with food-animals, through the lens of foodways - the beliefs, practices, rituals, and culture around food. The hypothesis is that an ethnographic study of foodways will reveal a dynamic social relationship with animals and other beings in the environment. This research will involve the Rae-Edzo Friendship Center and local harveste...

Principal Investigator: Martin, Jim L
Licensed Year(s): 2013
Summary: The focus of this inquiry is to study the epistemological problems of understanding emerging from unexamined assumptions and values that frame the belief systems of government professional practices, and indigenous ways of knowing in the Tlicho communities of the NWT. The inquiry asks the question, “How can differences in ways of knowing between northern Canadian communities, and government be...

Principal Investigator: Gordon, Dylan
Licensed Year(s): 2012
Summary: This research has two goals: 1) to determine how harvesters of wild mushrooms operating in the Northwest Territories find, harvest, process and sell them; and, 2) to determine how this process impacts the social, environmental and economic interests of local communities and the land. The method is called ethnographic participant observation. This means to observe the actions of the study partic...

Principal Investigator: Todd, Zoe SC
Licensed Year(s): 2012 2011
Summary: The researcher will study how people fish in Paulatuk today, how people talk about fishing and how fishing was practiced and characterised in the past. The researcher’s intent is to gain insight into contemporary relationships between people and the environment and inform anthropological discourse on women’s harvesting activity in arctic Canada. This project involves anthropological fieldwork,...

Principal Investigator: Denning, Bryany
Licensed Year(s): 2011
Summary: The objectives of this research project are: - to consult with the target population and appropriate agencies using a variety of means; and - to receive feedback on how best to target this population and incorporate harm reduction into a cost-effective street outreach program. Phase 1 (prior to research phase) goals are to: - Identify stakeholders - Examine best practice models from other j...

Principal Investigator: Edge, Lois E.
Licensed Year(s): 2009 2008 2007
Summary: Objectives of this research include (a) share experience as Visiting Researcher to the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, to study a pair of moccasins made by the researcher’s grandmother, Mrs. Joanne Edge, at her home in Fort Smith, Northwest Territories in 1942 (completed); (b) facilitate a beading circle with urban Aboriginal women in Edmonton, Alberta to document the contribution of bea...

Principal Investigator: Bell, Lindsay A
Licensed Year(s): 2015 2009 2008
Summary: This licence is being issued for the scientific research application No. 1006. Rapid economic change is influencing how we think of who we are and our ways of belonging to communities and regions. This research project aims to understand these changes through the eyes of two francophone Canada groups: 1) those involved in economic planning and development; and 2) those who are directly involved...

Principal Investigator: Shuwera, Brittany B
Licensed Year(s): 2008
Summary: The research will examine how long-standing residents (people living in Yellowknife over 20 years) give meaning to places in the area and how that meaning has changed over the past twenty years. The research will involve a sample of about twenty Yellowknife residents (chosen using a snowball sample) who will participate in an interview. These interviews will be recorder using: an audio recorder,...

Principal Investigator: Rankin, Janet
Licensed Year(s): 2007
Summary: The activities to determine student mastery of tasks to meet established standards of professional competence have not been well described and are poorly understood. This research is intended to illuminate the activities that contribute to decisions about a student’s progress, to understand how professional beliefs and practices are embedded into evaluation efforts, and to explicate some of the te...

Principal Investigator: Davison, Colleen
Licensed Year(s): 2005
Summary: This is a qualitative ethographic study, meaning that the researcher learns by observing and analysing a system or setting while living and working within that system or setting. The researcher will be working at Chief Jimmy Bruneau School in Rae-Edzo,...