Principal Investigator:Mulders, Annemieke Licensed Year(s):
2018
Summary:
The objectives of this project are to: 1) reduce the stigma associated with addressing the issue of violence against women and girls in the NWT; and, 2) study possible improvements in the service offered to women and girls who experience Intimate Partner Violence.
Interviews will take place in the shelters in a private area will be used.
Posters will be used to let women in the shelters know...
Principal Investigator:Cooke, Lani Licensed Year(s):
2015
2014 Summary:
The objectives of this two year project are to understand the needs of Northwest Territories (NWT) women who have experienced sexual assaults; to develop a protocol among NWT service providers to better respond to sexual violence against women; and, to develop an NWT pilot project that provides services, possibly located at two shelters, incorporating the knowledge of northern women, service provi...
Principal Investigator:Lys, Candice L Licensed Year(s):201620152014
2013
Summary:
The objective of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of the Fostering Open eXpression among Youth (F.O.X.Y.) intervention for empowering young NWT women and facilitating dialogue about sexual health issues in the North.
The principal investigator intends to offer the 8-hour workshops to participants in junior high/high schools and youth centers across the NWT. The researcher will collec...
Principal Investigator:Gauthier, Brenda Licensed Year(s):
2012
Summary:
The objectives of this research project are:
1. to understand how the women who are participating in this research learned their crafts,
2. to explore how this knowledge is/was transferred to them,
3. to discuss how artisans of a traditional craft impact the community, and
4. to reconnect with the traditional crafts I grew up with and learn from their experiences as artisans.
Focus Group.
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Principal Investigator:Edge, Lois E. Licensed Year(s):2009
2008
2007 Summary:
This licence is issued for the scientific research application #898.
The objectives of this research include 1) to study a pair of moccasins made by Mrs. Joanne Edge, purchased at Fort Smith by the Hudsons Bay Company in 1942; 2) facilitate a beading circle with urban Aboriginal women in Edmonton, Alberta to document the contribution of beadwork to Aboriginal women's health status; and, 3) cond...
Principal Investigator:Little, Lois M. Licensed Year(s):
2006
Summary:
The NWT is on the cusp of unprecedented change as the global capital machine in the form of the Mackenzie Gas (pipeline) Project (MGP), a massive hydrocarbon development, mobilizes to roll through the territory. The unparalleled scale and size of the MGP and the industrial activity that it will ignite will likely stress every element of the northern ecosystem. Women and the social and cultural spa...
Principal Investigator:Delisi, Joanne C. Licensed Year(s):1994
1993
1992 Summary:
In Phase Two of this project, follow-up interviews will be conducted with women artists that were interviewed in 1992. Additional interviews will be held with women artists at the craft and arts festivals held in Inuvik. During these video-taped sessions, women will tell of how they developed as artists. This information will comprise the researcher's Ph.D. thesis and a book may eventually be p...
Principal Investigator:Christophers, Sandy Licensed Year(s):
1993
Summary:
The NWT Council for Disabled Persons will contact NWT Women's Groups and community representatives to develop contact lists for women with disabilities. In addition, the Council will develop and distribute a survey that helps to identify issues and concerns for women with disabilities. These issues will be summarized and recommendations will be made in light of these issues....
Principal Investigator:Zellerer, Evelyn Licensed Year(s):
1992
Summary:
The researcher and her team will hold discussions with authorities in Yellowknife which will help guide the research. Data will be collected from government documents, archival material, court records, and interviews. Pre-sentence reports will be examined and women who are being held at the Fort Smith Correctional Centre for Women will be interviewed. Correctional authorities and service provid...
Principal Investigator:MacLean, Lynne Licensed Year(s):
1988
Summary:
Lynne MacLean will be interviewing women and mental health workers about depression and how to overcome it. All interviews will be confidential. She wants to know whether the experience and effects of depression are different between Chipewyan and white women. She also will ask mental health workers what types of difficulties they experience when dealing with depression in native versus non-nat...