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Unsettling Colonial Science: Modern Architecture and Indigenous Claims to Land 1954-1998
Principal Investigator: Blanchfield, Caitlin
Licensed Year(s): 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5261. This research project asks how the settler colonial governments of the United States and Canada used federally-funded, cold-war era scientific research infrastructures to appropriate Indigenous lands during the second half of the twentieth century. The aim of the research is on the one hand to show the mechanisms by w...


Examining the application and use of the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative within Rural and Urban health facilities in Canada and Australia among Indigenous Mothers.
Principal Investigator: Neufeld, Hannah
Licensed Year(s): 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5373. The objectives of this research are to gather the firsthand experiences of policymakers, administrators, and health care providers on implementing and supporting access to maternal health services among Indigenous mothers; and to apply and adapt the Interactive Theory of Breastfeeding to explore theoretical concepts i...


Cutting the Trail: Students' Perceptions of Their Distance Learning Experiences in Remote Postsecondary Education
Principal Investigator: Soanes-White, Tammy Lynn
Licensed Year(s): 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5343. The purpose of this study is to better understand students’ perceptions of their distance education experiences in remote postsecondary distance education and to identify which elements of those experiences foster success, with the intention of improving learning environments within these programs. The aim of this res...


Tǫdzı (Boreal Caribou) Range Planning and Atlas
Principal Investigator: Andrew, Leon
Licensed Year(s): 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5053. The Todzi Ne´ne´ Plan will be created through a collaborative planning process, and will focus on developing a way forward for maintaining a healthy, self-sustaining Todzi population. A community level plan will be developed in each of the Sahtú communities with a community conservation planning approach and will be b...


Using Photovoice to Reveal International Circumpolar Nursing Student Experiences
Principal Investigator: Bott, Gloria
Licensed Year(s): 2023 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4996. The aim of this study is to provide insight into Aurora College nursing students’ experiences in northern Norway. The research question is: What is the lived educational experience of Canadian nursing students in northern Norway? In order to answer the research question, photovoice - a qualitative participatory ac...


Assessing One Health competencies and learning outcomes: focus groups of climate change professionals
Principal Investigator: Parmley, Jane
Licensed Year(s): 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5194. The objective of this work is to identify the competencies (knowledge, skills, and attitudes) needed for success in climate change-related employment positions, and in turning climate change mitigation and adaptation knowledge into action. This study is needed to better prepare future One Health professionals to tackl...


Research study on local trustees’ voices in Canadian school boards.
Principal Investigator: Pollock, Katina
Licensed Year(s): 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5319. The objective of this study is to understand how decisions are made in the different school governance systems in NWT, and subsequently, how these systems influence the presence or absence of local voice in school-related decision making. A tertiary objective of this study is to compare the findings from NWT, to findi...


Adult attitudes towards Dene Yatie/Zhatie: a community questionnaire (pilot project)
Principal Investigator: Coates, Alice
Licensed Year(s): 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5360. The main objective of the study is to provide context for a later investigation into the attitudes of adolescent Dene language learners to the language. This ‘context’ takes the form of answers to a short survey, designed to elicit answers about the importance of the language to community members and the reasons for t...


Indigenous Women, Gender Diverse People and Information and Communication Technologies
Principal Investigator: Lupien, Pascal
Licensed Year(s): 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5309. The goal of this project is to conduct research working directly with Indigenous women and gender-diverse people in Latin America and northern Canada/Turtle Island to research, develop and implement digital solutions that will give them more power both within and outside of their communities. The objectives of this pr...


Tłı̨chǫ Highway 2022 Caribou, Dust, and Vegetation Monitoring
Principal Investigator: Steinwand, Tyanna
Licensed Year(s): 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5210. The purpose of this project is to determine changes in todzi harvesting pressure following construction of the road. The research team will determine sustainable levels of harvest for boreal caribou in the North Slave area before the road is built; Monitor harvesting pressure on boreal caribou and moose after the road...


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