NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Stenton, Douglas R.
Licensed Year(s): 1992 1991
Summary: The researchers will engage in field training for northern post-secondary students enrolled in Arctic College's Environmental Technology Program. This will provide northern students and other interested individuals opportunities to become actively involved in the investigation of eastern Arctic Inuit culture through a community-based project....

Principal Investigator: Chun, Zarah
Licensed Year(s): 1992
Summary: The researcher will identify and analyze the cultural factors of both the Inuit producer and the non-Inuit consumer which influence the production and design of Broughton Island products. Information collected will possibly be used by Inuit to create a successful product line....

Principal Investigator: D'Anglure, Bernard Saladin
Licensed Year(s): 1992
Summary: The research will involve the study of Inuit leaders and political development. How one became a leader among the Inuit, traditionally and in the present time using factors such as kinship, leadership, personal performance, authority and religious power will be be investigated....

Principal Investigator: Stairs, Arlene
Licensed Year(s): 1992 1991 1990 1988
Summary: The research will continue to study processes of learning in an Inuit community today. The focus is on various learning settings such as land, settlement and school, and groups of learners such as adults learning new skills and school students....

Principal Investigator: Orozco, Maria Eugenia
Licensed Year(s): 1992 1991 1991
Summary: In liaison with the Baffin Regional Agvvik Society, the researcher will investigate the context of violence and the meanings and interpretations that women and men attach to these events. Additional research as to the historical rate of incidence of this phenomenon will also be examined....

Principal Investigator: Collignon, Beatrice M.
Licensed Year(s): 1998 1992 1991
Summary: Ms. Collignon will continue to investigate Inuit geography, geographical thoughts about the land and perception of space and the way Inuit organize their knowledge of the land into a general explanation of the world around them....

Principal Investigator: Cressey, Jason
Licensed Year(s): 1992
Summary: The research project concentrates on the non-verbal aspects of communication (facial expression, gestures, etc.) and aims to identify what role these factors may play in the friendship process using children from three different age groups and three different cultures....

Principal Investigator: Leroux, Odette
Licensed Year(s): 1992 1991
Summary: The Researcher will continue work begun in 1991 and will complete interviews with six women artists in Cape Dorset. This work will finalize research for the publication and exhibition the Cape Dorset Women Artists....

Principal Investigator: Whittles, Martin J.
Licensed Year(s): 1992
Summary: The Researcher will continue an ethnographic study of the people and history of Sachs Harbour. An investigation of the local economic systems and land use patterns will be undertaken, the hamlet political system and its interaction with other levels of government will be documented and Inuit history on Banksland will be explored. The focus will be on the locals interpretations of themselves and t...

Principal Investigator: Segalou, Patrice
Licensed Year(s): 1992
Summary: The Researcher will conduct an anthropological study and will observe Inuit behavior, specifically, non-verbal communication. Observation and analysis will be conducted during traditional and cultural events as well as current events during a six month residence in the Town of Iqaluit....