NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Carter, Blair
Licensed Year(s): 2013
Summary: Four objectives guide this research: 1) to gain an understanding of the current water resource conditions (e.g., quality and quantity) and contextual circumstances (e.g., community culture, history, traditions) impacting local water use in the Deh Cho Region of the NWT; 2) to use a social well-being lens to unpack values that people associate with water resources in the Region; 3) to translate the...

Principal Investigator: Collignon, Beatrice M.
Licensed Year(s): 2013
Summary: The main goal of this project is to gather data about how much Ulukhaktuurmiut do travel outside of their area and to understand how they feel about travelling to other lands and places, in order to: 1- Acknowledge the fact that travelling is as important today as it was in the past. People still travel a lot on the land, to familiar places, but also travel to other lands and places. One outcom...

Principal Investigator: Collignon, Beatrice M.
Licensed Year(s): 1998 1992 1991
Summary: The Researcher will conduct a study to investigate Inuit geography, their geographical thoughts about the land and their perception of space and the way they organize their knowledge of the land into an general explanation of the world around them. A place name survey will be carried out with the elders of each community. Younger adults will be asked to give the names they know to understand how ...

Principal Investigator: Barton, Sheila
Licensed Year(s): 1991
Summary: The Researcher will make an assessment of the quality of life in Iqaluit. Analyses of formal and informal education will be conducted using surveys and interviews. The objectives of the research are to find a relationship between education and the quality of life and to assess how education levels influence the perceived quality of life....

Principal Investigator: Randa, Vladimir
Licensed Year(s): 1985
Summary: To study the perception, knowledge and the representation of the animal world by Inuit people....

Principal Investigator: Cole, Sally
Licensed Year(s): 1980
Summary: To undertake a study of how Inuit teenagers see themselves in the modern world and how it affects their lives. Interviews will be conducted by Ms. Cole....