NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Jardine, Cindy G.
Licensed Year(s): 2010
Summary: The overall research question is “Did the information provided to stakeholders (and other interested and affected parties) about the Giant Mine Remediation Plan allow them to equally and fairly participate in the consultation process?” Specific objectives of this research are: 1. To review available documents on the Giant Mine Remediation Plan, and assess these in terms of accessibility, content...

Principal Investigator: SARIKAYA, SULEYMAN
Licensed Year(s): 2010
Summary: The objective of this research is to learn different English as a Second Language (ESL) teaching techniques by observation of ESL classes. The researcher will produce a formal written report that will include all observational data, curriculum comparisons, a summary of student work comparisons and all new ESL teaching techniques. The final formal report will be presented to the Yellowknife/Nort...

Principal Investigator: Giles, Audrey R.
Licensed Year(s): 2010
Summary: This research project engages with the GNWT and the NWT Recreation and Parks Association, and thus members of the NWT public. The researchers will be conducting archival research of publically-available documents held by each organization. The goal of the research project is to better understand the ways in which sport and recreation programming can better meet northerners' (and especially Aborig...

Principal Investigator: Graham, John R.
Licensed Year(s): 2010 2008 2008 2007
Summary: This research follows a 2006–2009 Social Science and Humainities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Standard Research Grant (SRG) and a 2006-2007 SSHRC Northern Development Grant, in which the researchers piloted a quantitative instrument to measure Subjective Well Being (SWB) of practicing social workers in Alberta, Northwest Territories, and northwestern Ontario. This current research project bu...

Principal Investigator: Aubet, Natalie
Licensed Year(s): 2011 2010
Summary: The research purpose is intended to better resolve the climatic and oceanic chemical conditions that ultimately led to the origins of animal life and the Cambrian explosion by focusing on the exceptionally well-preserved ancient banded iron formations from the Rapitan Group (NWT, Canada) and the overlying carbonate units. Specifically, detailed analyses of these rocks will help in the understandin...

Principal Investigator: Arberry, Saundra
Licensed Year(s): 2010
Summary: To conduct a survey to help plan French programs in the upcoming 2010-2011 school year; to create marketing plan for the Canadian Parents for French (CPF) to encourage new volunteers to sit on the Board and help out with these activities throughout the year. Personal discussions with teachers, CPF Board members and parents with children enrolled in French Language programs. Results will take...

Principal Investigator: Pontin, David
Licensed Year(s): 2010
Summary: The intent of the study is to determine if Dene and Inuit ethnicity is a factor in receiving analgesia for long bone fracture in a rural Emergency Department. This study is a retrospective chart review that will examine patients between the ages of 18 and 75 who presented to Stanton Territorial Hospital in Yellowknife between January 2005 and January 2008 with isolated long bone fractures iden...

Principal Investigator: Speevak-Sladowski, Paula C
Licensed Year(s): 2010
Summary: The primary focus of the research is to better understand the volunteering experience and the needs and wishes of Canadian volunteers and potential volunteers. The researchers will begin by exploring what volunteers and potential volunteer are looking for; what their experiences have been; and what they believe they can offer. Hearing directly from volunteers themselves, the researchers will gain ...

Principal Investigator: Rose, Louise
Licensed Year(s): 2010
Summary: The goal is to survey critical care nurses across Canada to obtain a comprehensive description of nurses’ current knowledge and practice of pain assessment and management in critically ill adults. The researchers hypothesize that considerable variation exists for pain assessment, documentation, and management as well as the education received regarding pain assessment and management priorities for...

Principal Investigator: Brennan, Jodi N
Licensed Year(s): 2010 2005
Summary: The overall aim of this research is to evaluate the effectiveness of concept mapping as a teaching/learning tool in clinical practice courses in years one, two and three of the nursing program. The objectives include the following: evaluate one concept map per student weekly during the clinical course, and obtain student and faculty input on utilizing concept mapping as a teaching tool. ...