NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Duchscher, Judy
Licensed Year(s): 2024
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5715. The research team will evaluate the following anticipated results of implementing the Nurse Residency Program (NRP): a) Newly graduated nurses from a Baccalaureate nursing degree (referred to as Nurse Residents) in the Program will experience less stress, and greater comfort with their nursing responsibilities and...

Principal Investigator: Singer, Claire L
Licensed Year(s): 2024 2023 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5732. In the context of the above (see Rationale), our overarching goal is to complete a territory-wide Indigenous knowledge study to determine what we know about berries, describe any changes that are being seen in berries, identify potential causes of these changes, and outline what further information needs to be collec...

Principal Investigator: Barnes, Justin
Licensed Year(s): 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5523. The objective of this research project is to understand the influence Indigenous Peoples have had as Permanent Participants at the Arctic Council. The Arctic Council is an international forum consisting of the eight Arctic countries and six Permanent Participant organizations representing Arctic Indigenous Peoples. ...

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...