NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Lambiv Dzemua, Gideon
Licensed Year(s): 2024 2023 2022 2021
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5793. The aim of the project is to locate areas with high potential for critical minerals mineralization. The results, will, hopefully, incentivize exploration for critical minerals and technology metals in the territory. This is particularly important now given the high demand for these commodities and the imminent closur...

Principal Investigator: Brisson-Boivin, Kara
Licensed Year(s): 2021
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4849. The information MediaSmarts will gather through this new Young Canadians in a Wireless World (YCWW) research will help the research team better determine how well youth in Canada are maximizing the potential of digital technology for participation in our digital society and for protecting and advancing their interests...

Principal Investigator: Wang, Rosalie
Licensed Year(s): 2017
Summary: The focus of the Aging, Disability, and Technology (ADT) project is the ethical concern of equity in the availability and adoption of new technology -- the issue of fairness of access and distribution. ADT addresses the need for the implementation of the human rights of persons with technology needs in Canada, including people who are aging well, and people who are acquiring disability as they age...

Principal Investigator: Fontaine, Trish
Licensed Year(s): 2017
Summary: The Principal Investigator (PI) will interview participants of the digital panel forum and members of community organizations in the north to get a sense of how and why digital connectivity is important. The PI would like to make available the results such as what next steps are needed, what part of the process went well what did not and how communities can now benefit from this infrastructure. Wi...

Principal Investigator: Conrad, Diane H
Licensed Year(s): 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013
Summary: The aim of the study is to initiate a creative exchange amongst youth in 4 Aboriginal communities (Fort Good Hope, NWT; Pangnirtung, Nunavut; Kainai Reserve, Southern Alberta, amiskwaciy Academy, Edmonton, Alberta) through performing arts, storytelling and technology. Through consultation with the communities regarding the study's design and objectives, and collaboration between Aboriginal and non...

Principal Investigator: Joordens, Steve
Licensed Year(s): 2015
Summary: The objective is to assess the impact of real-time, interactive, video conferencing in the classroom on teachers and students. Specifically, the research team hope to assess the impact of its implementation for student-to-student, student-to-expert, and teacher-to-teacher interactions. At the beginning of the project, teachers will be given surveys that will ask them about their engagement and...

Principal Investigator: O'Donnell, Susan
Licensed Year(s): 2014 2013
Summary: This collaborative research project aims to study and document the development of the K’atl’odeeche First Nation (KFN) Community Network. It will introduce the history of technology development and use in KFN, including broader social, political, cultural, and economic contexts. The project focuses on KFN's community technology development initiatives, and specifically the KFN Community Network. I...

Principal Investigator: Hawkins, Tyler
Licensed Year(s): 2002
Summary: The research project that will tract the Gates-MacGinite Reading Test scores of approximately 75 Harry Camsell students from between the 1999 to 2001 academic school period. The study will attempt to correlate the literacy score results between those stu...

Principal Investigator: Branch, Jennifer
Licensed Year(s): 1999
Summary: The researcher will meet with community members, parents, students, teachers and school administrators to learn about the information seeking processes of junior high students. The equipment used on site will include a computer with CD-ROM capabilities, audio cassette recorder and video cassette recorder. The methods of data collection will include interviews, observations and verbal protocol anal...

Principal Investigator: Kuntz, Patricia A.
Licensed Year(s): 1996
Summary: The population that will be used for this study is nurses working in a hospital setting in the NWT. Participants will be asked to complete a self-administered questionnaire (1-1/2 pages) and return the completed questionnaire to the researcher. A letter will accompany the questionnaire, explaining the purpose of the study and nature of research to each participant....