NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Jackson, Mame
Licensed Year(s): 1994
Summary: We plan to speak with hamlet leaders and others about the possibility of working together to organize a university-level course for about 20 students on Inuit culture and art which might be held in Igloolik at a mutually-agreeable time in the next year or two. The course would be jointly sponsored by Carleton University and DePaul University....

Principal Investigator: Griffiths, Curt
Licensed Year(s): 1993 1991 1990
Summary: This study, started in 1990, is designed to examine the patterns of crime and the delivery of justice services to Inuit communities in the Baffin Region. The researchers will be completing their data collection during this field season. Justice personnel from Iqaluit and Yellowknife will be interviewed. In the spring of 1994, the researchers plan to re-visit the Baffin communities in order to p...

Principal Investigator: Webster, Andrew
Licensed Year(s): 1993
Summary: The researcher will collect data from public sources of literature on the development and impacts of social administration on residents of the NWT. This data will be used towards the development of a research topic for the researcher's Ph.D. degree. Agencies that the researcher wishes to approach for literature include the GNWT Department of Social Services, and libraries of the Court House, Den...

Principal Investigator: Vick, Ann
Licensed Year(s): 1992
Summary: The researchers will identify and share exemplary programs and processes in circumpolar education. They will investigate the design and results of the research program established to assess the effectiveness of the Piniaqtavut program (developing instructional programs which use community knowledge). They will also explore how the Baffin Divisional Board may be able to utilize other circumpolar re...

Principal Investigator: Sinclair, Noel
Licensed Year(s): 1990
Summary: Mr. Sinclair will study the Arctic College Guide Development course, interview instructors, administrators and other course participants, to determine the effectiveness of the program....

Principal Investigator: Rees, William
Licensed Year(s): 1987
Summary: To document and evaluate Fort Good Hope's self help housing project. To document what people think about the program, how it might be improved and to suggest ays other communities might learn from Fort Good Hope's experience....

Principal Investigator: Scott, Harvey A.
Licensed Year(s): 1979
Summary: To research and document traditional native physical education and recreation activities. The study purpose is to complete books on the Inuit, Loucheux - Hareskin/Bearlake and Trans-Dene games for use in developing school curriculum material....

Principal Investigator: Denny, J. Peter
Licensed Year(s): 1978
Summary: To study the Inuktitut language specifically related to mathermatics. This will assist in the development of curriculum materials to teach elementary school mathematics in Inuktitut....