NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Cockcroft, Toby R.G.
Licensed Year(s): 1994
Summary: The researcher will be collecting information on Inuit folklore and mythology from Iqaluit residents. This information will be used to determine how interpersonal relationships and society are represented in folklore and mythology. This study will result in a comprehensive collection of local Inuit stories which will be provided to the community....

Principal Investigator: Hall, Barbara
Licensed Year(s): 1994 1993 1992
Summary: The resarchers will continue their study, started in 1992, on assessing the health-related knowledge, skills, attitudes and behaviours of children and youth in the NWT. Data will be collected through a survey administered through NWT schools. Teachers will also be surveyed with regard to the implementation of the NWT School Health Program. Researchers from selected communities will be trained t...

Principal Investigator: Bender, Miranda
Licensed Year(s): 1993
Summary: The purpose of this research will be to gather information about how Natives identify with the local, regional and national communities which they now find themselves a part of. Information will be collected on how local people think the proposed Nunavut Territorial government will affect and serve the local community and its members. The researcher will work closely with members of Clyde River ...

Principal Investigator: Kendrick, Anne
Licensed Year(s): 1993
Summary: This research will examine the perceptions of Arviat people as they relate to the management of caribou in the NWT. The researcher will hold informal and conversational interviews with groups of interested members of the community in order to document the effectiveness of caribou management in its present form. Information will also be collected on the community's perceptions of the effectivenes...

Principal Investigator: Satterthwaite, Andrew
Licensed Year(s): 1992
Summary: The researcher will investigate perceptions of northern residents concerning their participation in environmental assessment hearings. This information will be used in a larger project looking at the role of scientific and traditional knowledge in the environmental assessment process....

Principal Investigator: Posynik, Jim
Licensed Year(s): 1990
Summary: The researchers will collect data from federal crown prosecutor's files and N.W.T. court files and will build from these sources of information a document which will give insight to legal professionals, policy makers and members of the public on how sexual assault cases have been viewed and handled....

Principal Investigator: Frei, Rosemary
Licensed Year(s): 1990
Summary: Ms. Frei will spend a period of nine days in the area of Inuvik and Tuktoyaktuk with the objective of gathering material for a series of papular articles and/or radio programs for the Canadian Airlines Inflight magazine and for Canadian Geographic. The articles will mainly deal with research on climate change being carried out in the Arctic....

Principal Investigator: Kary, Alan
Licensed Year(s): 1989
Summary: Mr. Kary will conduct interviews with aboriginal leaders and the Government of the Northwest Territories in order to gather information regarding attitudes toward petroleum resource development....

Principal Investigator: McDowell, Marilyn E.
Licensed Year(s): 1988 1987
Summary: Dr. McDowell is returning to ask people how they like the sausages and other processed meats that are being developed from seal and walrus meat. She is also looking for more sources of meat and will be asking about how to produce these products in the north....

Principal Investigator: Grant, Shelagh
Licensed Year(s): 1981
Summary: To conduct a survey of local peoples' opinion on the effects of World War Ii and their perceptions of the effects of WW II and how it changed such things as health care, education and government policy. This is the background to an M.A. history thesis....