NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Zarowny, Sister Mary
Licensed Year(s): 1995
Summary: Local church personnel or volunteers will invite those who wish to participate in evening or weekend sessions to discuss their realities and answer a number of open ended questions. Local followup may result from these sessions. Summaries of sessions will be forwarded to the coordinator and used for development of further reflection processes and pastoral strategies....

Principal Investigator: Gouttenoire, Veronique
Licensed Year(s): 1994
Summary: I will collect data on the relationship between the names and physical likeness. I will interview elders and young people about their names, names of their relatives, and if physical resemblances links one of their family members to another. This follows a theory about the relationship between names and physical likeness in members on the same family group....

Principal Investigator: Adkins, Gary
Licensed Year(s): 1994
Summary: The Territorial Government has stated that it would like to see zero tolerance towards violence in the family and that there should be more input from youth in regards to their feelings on what affects them. Teens in Sir John Franklin and St. Patrick High Schools will be asked to participate in a questionnaire on abuse. This information will be used to assess the issues that teens face. This st...

Principal Investigator: Oakes, Jill
Licensed Year(s): 1993
Summary: This study is community-based: the researchers will work with the Baffin communities in order that the study meets the needs of each community as well as the region. The work will identify the formal and informal economic contributions Inuit women make. It will also help interested women establish sewing centres and develop marketing strategies. Both Elders and young women will be interviewed t...

Principal Investigator: McElroy, Ann P.
Licensed Year(s): 1994 1992
Summary: The Researcher will conduct a four-week pilot project to assess the feasibility of a follow-up study of the impact of change and modernization over the last 26 years on Inuit families in Iqaluit. A comparison of Iqaluit in the 1990s with Iqaluit of the 1960s will be conducted utilizing participant-observation as well as formal and informal interviews....

Principal Investigator: Hergovich, Eva
Licensed Year(s): 1991
Summary: The Researcher working with the classroom teacher will present two questionnaires to all Grade 7, 8 and 9 students at Atanaarjuat School. The questionnaires will investigate changes in family attitudes which might be attibutable to education and the television media. The first questionnaire will deal with family relationships and the classroom, the second with the influence of television on family...

Principal Investigator: Webster, Andrew
Licensed Year(s): 1990
Summary: Mr. Webster will conduct directed and indirected interviews with representatives of concerned interest groups in Snowdrift. His data sampling will be limited to groups and organizations. He will also review social policy procedure manuals. This is the first year of a two year research project....

Principal Investigator: Driedger, Linda C.
Licensed Year(s): 1988
Summary: Linda Driedger will be interviewing residents to see how kinship (family relations) and the community social organization are interwoven....

Principal Investigator: Hill, Steven G.
Licensed Year(s): 1987
Summary: To provide a ethnographic profile of the changes in Inuit family structure and patterning concomitant with an increase ib the number of aged family members; evaluate current patterns of behaviour, practices and attitudes of and toward Inuit elderly with emphasis on identifying the ways in which Inuit elderly are integrated into the current family setting....

Principal Investigator: D'Anglure, Bernard Saladin
Licensed Year(s): 1987
Summary: To continue research on Inuit social history and culture, especially adoption, identity and kinship among the Igloolik Inuit....