NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Hall, Rebecca J
Licensed Year(s): 2024 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5517. Grounded in community experience with and responses to extraction in northern Canada and coal mining communities in South Africa, our transnational approach is guided by following objectives: 1) to generate and share knowledge horizontally across mining-affected communities and through community/university partner...

Principal Investigator: Mulders, Annemieke
Licensed Year(s): 2018
Summary: The objectives of this project are to: 1) reduce the stigma associated with addressing the issue of violence against women and girls in the NWT; and, 2) study possible improvements in the service offered to women and girls who experience Intimate Partner Violence. Interviews will take place in the shelters in a private area will be used. Posters will be used to let women in the shelters know...

Principal Investigator: Piper, Liza
Licensed Year(s): 2016 2015
Summary: This research seeks to understand whether concerns about environmental contamination or potentially hazardous food products (included imported foods) influenced women’s decisions about how to feed newborn infants after 1970. More broadly, the research team seeks to understand what factors (social, cultural, economic, environmental) influenced choices about feeding infants in the Mackenzie Delta r...

Principal Investigator: Kuntz, Janelle
Licensed Year(s): 2016
Summary: The objective of this research is to explore the value of Tlicho women's traditional knowledge (TK) in the environmental assessment of the NICO project proposed by Fortune Minerals Limited. Primary research questions include: •What types of traditional knowledge were Tlicho women sharing in the context of the TK study interviews and public hearings? •How did the process of the TK study influenc...

Principal Investigator: Cooke, Lani
Licensed Year(s): 2015 2014
Summary: The objectives of this two year project are to understand the needs of Northwest Territories (NWT) women who have experienced sexual assaults; to develop a protocol among NWT service providers to better respond to sexual violence against women; and, to develop an NWT pilot project that provides services, possibly located at two shelters, incorporating the knowledge of northern women, service provi...

Principal Investigator: Hache, Arlene J
Licensed Year(s): 2015
Summary: The change goal of the Centre for Northern Families is to create an organizational culture that attracts qualified staff and builds their capacity to offer a quality, consistent service for shelter residents. This Organizational Leadership Project (OLP) and action inquiry process examines the question: How can the Centre for Northern Families effectively support women to transition from the emerge...

Principal Investigator: Hall, Rebecca J
Licensed Year(s): 2014
Summary: The objective of this research is to analyze the way women's labor in Yellowknife (both paid and unpaid labor, including care for children and family members) has changed as a result of diamond mining. Related, it will explore the way relations within families may or may not have shifted, and the ways the nature of violence against women in Yellowknife may or may not have shifted as a result of th...

Principal Investigator: Lys, Candice L
Licensed Year(s): 2016 2015 2014 2013
Summary: The objective of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of the Fostering Open eXpression among Youth (F.O.X.Y.) intervention for empowering young NWT women and facilitating dialogue about sexual health issues in the North. The principal investigator intends to offer the 8-hour workshops to participants in junior high/high schools and youth centers across the NWT. The researcher will collec...

Principal Investigator: Vittrekwa, Elizabeth H.L.C
Licensed Year(s): 2013
Summary: The objectives of this research project are to complete a review of the local/regional economic factors for single mothers including documenting employment/economic choices; to complete a summary report of what employment, barriers and services are currently available for the target group of this program and what can be done with local programs/services to help single mothers such as counselling, ...

Principal Investigator: Gauthier, Brenda
Licensed Year(s): 2012
Summary: The objectives of this research project are: 1. to understand how the women who are participating in this research learned their crafts, 2. to explore how this knowledge is/was transferred to them, 3. to discuss how artisans of a traditional craft impact the community, and 4. to reconnect with the traditional crafts I grew up with and learn from their experiences as artisans. Focus Group. ...