NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Dressler, Wolfram
Licensed Year(s): 1998
Summary: The objective of the study is to identify both the current and future positive and negative impacts of nature-based tourism within the Delta. The study will be carried out through the Inuvik Research Centre. Tourists will be canvassed at drop-off points and surveys will be mailed out according to visitor listings. Visitor surveys will be left at camp grounds and hotels. The same procedure will occ...

Principal Investigator: Chipeniuk, Raymond
Licensed Year(s): 1992
Summary: The researcher will test the usefulness of the repertory- grid technique for gaining an understanding of how people of different cultures think about natural and semi-natural landscapes, and will gather data to make cross-cultural comparisons of how people of different cultures think about natural and semi-natural landscapes. He will also study the initiation and pursuance of a proposal to have I...

Principal Investigator: Knotsch, Cathleen
Licensed Year(s): 1993 1992
Summary: The research will determine the processes that were involved in changing Inuit land use patterns in the Cumberland Sound region from the 1880's to present. Ms. Knotsch will investigate the way Inuit see their history during these years and will discuss opinions concerning the past and present use of various settlements....

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: Rowley, Susan D.M.
Licensed Year(s): 1991
Summary: The Researcher will investigate how Inuit perceptions of outsiders have changed through time from Sir Martin Frobisher to the American military....

Principal Investigator: Thompson, Caroline
Licensed Year(s): 1991 1990
Summary: Ms. Thompson will use a questionnaire translated into English and Inuktitut, which asks youths 13-15 and 18-20 to identify their three most pressing problems, coping strategies and the characteristics of adults they would turn to for help....

Principal Investigator: Urschel, John
Licensed Year(s): 1987
Summary: To obtain information on the prevalence of suicide for the year 1985 by reviewing charts located in the NWT Chief Coroner's Office; examine some of teh social and psychological factors related to suicide by interviewing and making contact with native organizations and other interested agencies, in order to integrate this information with the demographic material....

Principal Investigator: Walker, Marilyn
Licensed Year(s): 1987
Summary: To examine the role of food among the Inuit, and in interaction with Euro-Canadians by observation of select families and their contacts with kabloona and indigenous foods. Profiles on areas related to foods will be written, select households will be interviewed, and a food survey will be completed....

Principal Investigator: Saxon, Leslie A.
Licensed Year(s): 1987
Summary: To investigate the pronouns and questions in the Dogrib language as part of research into overall patterns of sentence structure in Dogrib; provide a description of Dogrib sentence structure potentially useful for other applications; compare Dogrib with related languages and to aid the understanding of language structure generally....

Principal Investigator: Prattis, Iain
Licensed Year(s): 1985
Summary: Comparative analysis of bilingualism policy in Northern Canada (Inuktitut - English) and the Western Isles of Scotland (Gaelic - English)....