NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Asfeldt, Morten
Licensed Year(s): 2024
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 6010. The purpose of this project is to include local Indigenous voices more prominently in a second edition of Pike’s Portage: Stories of a Distinguished Place. The primary research method will be one-on-one semi-structured interviews with members of the Lutsel K'e Dene First Nation and others who have a significant r...

Principal Investigator: Nichols, Claire
Licensed Year(s): 2024
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5997. The team proposes to target the areas near Bell Lake and between Dwyer/Homer Lakes, since these are well-studied, with high resolution geological maps already published in the literature and new U-Pb ages have recently been acquired for many of the rocks here, which will be key for interpreting the age of magnetizati...

Principal Investigator: Hoffmann, Tanja
Licensed Year(s): 2024
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5938. This project aims to engage with the active Pine Point community, the heritage and legacy of the town, and the landscape of Pine Point itself, to explore how a temporary town can have such a lasting impact. The proposed research will use the following methodologies and methods: Archival research: The research t...

Principal Investigator: Pollock, Katy
Licensed Year(s): 2024
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5991. This project sets out to answer the following questions: a. What evaluation approaches, methods, and tools exist for including children’s input in daycare quality evaluation? b. What are the barriers and facilitators to conducting evaluation in daycares in a way that includes children’s input? c. How can daycare...

Principal Investigator: Rourke, Sean B
Licensed Year(s): 2024
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5928. Overall aim: This three-year implementation science program aims to implement and scale up to 100 interactive dispensing systems (IDS) in partnership with community-based agencies across Canada to provide low barrier access to HIV self-test kits, harm reduction and sexual health materials to reach those who are undia...

Principal Investigator: Davidson, Debra
Licensed Year(s): 2024
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5981. The objectives include: Build positive relations between university researchers and the Tli?cho communities; co-create knowledge that is of equal value to the Tli?cho people and to scholarship; enhance the capacity of the Tli?cho people to pursue a sustainable future in accordance with Tli?cho values based on finding...

Principal Investigator: Belita, Emily
Licensed Year(s): 2024
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5950. The objectives of this study are two-fold: 1. To develop and validate national workforce indicators that provide measurable information on the diversity, characteristics, knowledge/skills, and needs of the public health workforce in Canada, and 2. To determine the diversity of the public health workforce in Canada, t...

Principal Investigator: Palmer, Mike
Licensed Year(s): 2024
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5974. The specific research objectives are: 1) to implement a geologically-based classification scheme to group permafrost lake types for the range of biophysical environments encountered across the NWT; and 2) to determine whether these lake types can be distinguished by their physical and water chemistry characteristics....

Principal Investigator: Smith, Alison
Licensed Year(s): 2024
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5976. This project aims to understand the governance of homelessness, including barriers to collaborative governance, in small, mid-sized, and northern communities in Canada. I have a SSHRC funded project to study this, and have started research in small and mid-sized cities in BC, Ontario, and Quebec. This summer, I would...

Principal Investigator: Jones, Sarah
Licensed Year(s): 2024
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5926. The objective of the study is to gather Traditional Knowledge from local community members and land users of the Taltson River Aquatic Environment (Nonacho Lake, Lady Gray Lake, Twin Gorges Forebay, Trudel Creek/Lake, Lower Taltson River and Rutledge Lake). These data will be gathered to document changes to the water...