NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Chappell, Hayley
Licensed Year(s): 1999
Summary: The overall goal of the project is to examine the various factors which motivate tourists to select locations Canadian Arctic, such as Inuvik, as a travel destination. The researcher will be interviewing tourists traveling to Inuvik. A questionnaire form and/or a personal interview will be used to ask questions about their visit to the Northwest Territories. All participants will have the objectiv...

Principal Investigator: Cayen, Liz
Licensed Year(s): 1997
Summary: The purpose of the study is to determine the current status of distance education in the Gwich'in Settlement Area, to analyse the existing education/training needs and to make recommendations about the use of distance education methods and strategies to meet those needs. This will involve surveying people who are presently or have recently pursued education through this delivery method. Data coll...

Principal Investigator: Crowell, James W.
Licensed Year(s): 1997 1996
Summary: School Principals will be contacted during the 1995/96 school year to collect data on the number of students involved in home schooling in each community. In the towns of Fort Smith, Hay River, and Yellowknife, parents of home schooling children will be contacted through principals to participate in tape recorded interviews. Data collection will be limited to mail, phone, FAX, and personal conta...

Principal Investigator: Pin, Gino
Licensed Year(s): 1996
Summary: Will conduct community consultation workshops in the 4 case study communities: Rae-Edzo, Snare Lake, Ft. Resolution and Kakisa. The workshops will open to the entire community. Data collection will be by open meeting discussion, individual interviews and interactive activity stations. The study is an evaluation of the level of success of existing planning and housing practice for native communi...

Principal Investigator: Nadji, Kayhan
Licensed Year(s): 1992 1991
Summary: This research will investigate the relationship between the architectural and technical aspects of buildings and severe northern climate....

Principal Investigator: Boyko, Vladimir
Licensed Year(s): 1991
Summary: These researchers will carry out a part of the program of cooperation between Canada and the USSR on the economic and socio-cultural development of the native peoples of the North. They will conduct a cross-cultural and cross-societal analysis using questionnaires, observation, interviews, participation and discussion....

Principal Investigator: Gisgaard, Inngi
Licensed Year(s): 1990
Summary: The Researcher will interview individual architects, engineers, and government department employees concerning housing design and construction in the eastern and western arctic....

Principal Investigator: Jacobson, Roy
Licensed Year(s): 1980
Summary: To undertake a study of how the land and its resources (wildlife principally) are utilized in the day to day life of the residents of the communities....

Principal Investigator: Wenzel, George W.
Licensed Year(s): 1978
Summary: To study the effect of a one-time sudden increase in spending on the native economy. To determine what the money was spent on and who derived benefit from it....

Principal Investigator: Hrudey, S.E.
Licensed Year(s): 1977
Summary: Evaluation of greywater (liquid sewage) treatment alternatives for isolated northern communities....