NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

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: Coad, Abigale
Licensed Year(s): 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5662. The purpose of this research is to work with Housing Northwest Territories (HNWT/ Housing NWT) to identify and reduce institutional barriers to self-determination of housing, and to workshop, in partnership with K’asho Got’ine Housing Society (KGHS) and Yellowknives Dene First Nation (YKDFN), a northern housing model...

Principal Investigator: Havelka, Susane M.
Licensed Year(s): 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5041. The research objectives, and associated outcomes, of the project are to: 1) Understand the links between self-building housing and well-being in Fort Good Hope, a community where several examples of the self-built Housing Assistant Payment (HAP) housing are located and how culturally appropriate housing design and pla...

Principal Investigator: McCartney, Shelagh
Licensed Year(s): 2022 2021 2020
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5202. Yellowknives Dene First Nation (YKDFN) has identified the availability of adequate, affordable, and appropriate housing for their membership as a critical priority. The research team are looking towards the creation and implementation of a community-based solution. The unique climatic, geographic, and cultural factors...

Principal Investigator: Madsen, Veronica
Licensed Year(s): 2021
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4861. In this project, the principal aim is to support the work of K'asho Got'ine Housing Society (KGHS) by advancing an understanding of how transitional hosing programs can be adapted and implemented in a way that promotes community strengths and promotes a sense of home through contextually- and culturally appropriate su...

Principal Investigator: Pugsley, Aimee Louise
Licensed Year(s): 2021
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4867. The purpose of this research is to meet the research needs of the community of Fort Good Hope as the Principal Investigator (PI) explore in collaboration with the K’asho Got’ine Housing Society (KGHS) how their community-led social housing program can become sustainable. The complex geographies of the housing crisis i...

Principal Investigator: Christensen, Julia B
Licensed Year(s): 2021
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4839. The purpose of this project is to document, assess and evaluate changes to participants' intake of alcohol and cannabis over the duration of the COVID-19 Isolation Shelter Harm Reduction program. In particular, the research team are interested in how a transitional housing program offered in conjunction with a Managed...

Principal Investigator: Young, Michael G
Licensed Year(s): 2014 2012
Summary: The overall aim of this project is to assess the effectiveness of the Emergency Warming Centre (EWC) in terms of improvements in the lives of homeless persons with concurrent disorders. Not only will the EWC provide shelter and food, it will offer onsite counseling and other services related to the improvement in the lives of its clients. Examples include, access to health services, referrals for ...

Principal Investigator: Mackin, Nancy P
Licensed Year(s): 2014
Summary: The objectives of this research project are to: 1) Learn how northern peoples can continue to adapt to changing climates by applying Elders’ knowledge e.g. healthy seasonal harvests and moss-insulated shelters. 2) Engage First Nations young people in traditional practices such as moss houses reconstruction so the practices shared by Elders can foster climate adaptation well into the future. 3) Bui...

Principal Investigator: Poole, Nancy
Licensed Year(s): 2012
Summary: The aim of this research is to involve decision makers in the mental health, housing and social sectors in improving the systemic response to northern women with mental health concerns who have unstable housing/are homeless, informed by research with women and service providers. The objectives are: 1) to gather the perspectives of northern women regarding the trajectory of their unstable housing/h...