NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Graham, Katherine
Licensed Year(s): 1989 1988
Summary: Ms Graham is part of a group of researchers investigating the transfer of power from federal to territorial governments. She will assess the impact devolution has on local governments, as well as how the policies developed are implemented. The focus will be on local councils and regional/tribal councils....

Principal Investigator: Clancy, Peter
Licensed Year(s): 1988
Summary: Dr. Clancy is part of a group of researchers investigating the process of devolution and its impact upon constitutional development in the North. His case study involves wildlife and fisheries management in the NWT. He is interviewing various members of the relevant management agencies and those involved in aboriginal claims to investigate how the structure of wildlife management may change in t...

Principal Investigator: Dacks, Gurston
Licensed Year(s): 1988
Summary: Dr. Dacks is part of a group of researchers investigating the process of devolution and its impact upon constitutional development in the North. He will be examining a number of questions relating to devolution through two case studies -- the Framework Agreement on Devolution and the Northern Accord. In each, he will look at the parties involved, their interests, and the elements that will make ...

Principal Investigator: Downe, Alan G.
Licensed Year(s): 1988
Summary: Mr. Downe will be comparing interviews of 40 sentenced male offenders to 40 adult men who are placed temporarily (remanded) in a correctional centre while the court is making a decision about their case. He wants to be able to advise the courts whether remanded inmates suffer more emotional stress than those who are finished with the court process and sentenced....

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...

Principal Investigator: Campbell, Gail
Licensed Year(s): 1988
Summary: Ms. Campbell will be interviewing people about town planning in the Northwest Territories. Her research will be used to produce a Master's thesis....

Principal Investigator: Crnkovich, Mary
Licensed Year(s): 1988 1987
Summary: Mary Crnkovitch's assistant, Angela Bernal, is completing the interviews required to produce a book on issues facing northern women. The book will cover topics ranging from giving birth, to women in politics, to special social problems such as family violence. The book should be published in the fall by the Canadian Arctic Resources Committee (CARC) in Ottawa....

Principal Investigator: Potvin, Joseph
Licensed Year(s): 1988
Summary: Mr. Potvin will be discussing the format and content of his handbook on community economic development with various people in each community to make it more useful to everyone. He will also collect information from owners of small community businesses that can be used as examples in his handbook....

Principal Investigator: Currie, Noel Elizabeth
Licensed Year(s): 1988
Summary: Noel Currie will be searching the CBC archives in Yellowknife andinterviewing selected staff for information on Andrew Cowan and his days with the CBC Northern Service....

Principal Investigator: Falck, Hendrik
Licensed Year(s): 1988
Summary: Mr. Falck will be investigating the gold-bearing rock formations around Yellowknife....