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A Dialouge for Designing a Sustainable Future for the Great Slave Lake Fishery
Principal Investigator: Palsson, Solmundur Karl
Licensed Year(s): 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5329. Our objectives on Great Slave Lake are to understand the current governance framework around the fishery in Great Slave Lake (GSL), its benefits, its distribution, and the historical trends; and, to identify commonalities and differences among rights holders, actors and organizations involved in the fishery. Togeth...


Climate Change and Food Security in Whatì and Wekweètì
Principal Investigator: Latta, Alex
Licensed Year(s): 2024 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5410. The overall objective of the project is to work with the Indigenous partners, the Tli?cho Government, to identify, develop and implement initiatives to enhance capacity to plan for and address food security issues in the face of climate change and other related stressors in the communities of Whatì and Wekweètì. Th...


Inuvialuit Voices: cultural heritage preservation and access through digital storytelling in digital libraries
Principal Investigator: Shiri, Ali
Licensed Year(s): 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5406. The overarching objective of this study is to investigate, develop, and evaluate a real-time, audio-recording digital storytelling and commenting user interface for the Inuvialuit Digital Library in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region (ISR) in order to facilitate live capturing of Inuit community input and stories while ...


Factors that Influenced Students to Discontinue in Music Education Courses
Principal Investigator: Lavoy, Shelley Dalene Joyce
Licensed Year(s): 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5344. The purpose of this qualitative research is to explore the factors that influenced five high school students in a northern community to discontinue participation in upper-level high school music courses. The Principal Investigator (PI) will use a qualitative approach to the research project. The data will be collec...


Middle Years Development Instrument (MDI) in NWT Schools
Principal Investigator: Oberle, Eva
Licensed Year(s): 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5405. The Middle Years Development Instrument (MDI) is a self-report questionnaire that gives students a voice by answering questions about their feelings and experiences both inside and outside of school. The MDI uses a holistic, strengths-based approach to measure five dimensions of child development strongly linked to so...


Inclusive Early Childhood Service System Project
Principal Investigator: Underwood, Kathryn
Licensed Year(s): 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5396. The project adopts an Institutional Ethnography approach through annual interviews with families over a 6-year period. This study of institutional practices will draw on more than 800 interviews with families. The research team then consider how the construction of children and families in these services intersects wi...


Dene Béré (Country Foods) Campaign
Principal Investigator: Andrew, Leon
Licensed Year(s): 2024 2023 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5402. The aim of this project is to support adaptation of Dene be´re´ (Dene be´re´) systems to climate change through a harvesting and sharing program that includes hunters, women and youth. To do so, the research team propose to increase the communication of knowledge on Dene be´re´ and to build a community harvesting pilo...


Inuvialuit Living History Project: How are Inuvialuit engaging with Cultural Heritage?
Principal Investigator: Hodgetts, Lisa M
Licensed Year(s): 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5285. The Inuvialuit Living History (ILH) Project is a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada-funded community-based research project. It aims to present and celebrate Inuvialuit culture through events and the project website: http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/. The research team want to explore h...


Healing Cultural Soul Wounds within the Settler-Indigenous Relationship: Learning from Indigenous Knowledge Holders
Principal Investigator: McPhail, Danielle Sarah
Licensed Year(s): 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5195. The specific gap within the current settler-Indigenous relationship is that if non-Indigenous people continue to fear the discomfort that a decolonizing approach can bring, the effects of colonization will stay the same, albeit creating even more racial tensions within the settler-Indigenous relationship. It is also t...


Advancing impact assessment for Canada’s Socio-ecological systems: Mining in Northern Indigenous Lands.
Principal Investigator: Davidson, Debra
Licensed Year(s): 2022
Summary: TThis licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5378. The objective is to build positive relations between university researchers and the Tli?cho communities; co-create knowledge that is of equal value to the Tli?cho people and to scholarship. This project will enhance the capacity of the Tli?cho people to pursue a sustainable future in accordance with Tli?cho values ba...


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