NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Wachowich, Nancy
Licensed Year(s): 1992 1991
Summary: The Researcher will investigate patterns of crime in Arctic communities and the role the Northern Justice system plays in defining and managing these crimes. The research will be focused primarily on incidents involving Inuit women. Methodology will include reading public documents, interviewing people working in the system, tracing current cases in court, conversing with people withi...

Principal Investigator: Fogwill, Lynn
Licensed Year(s): 1988
Summary: Ms. Lynn Fogwill conducted interviews with women in the seven communities, as well as consulted with GNWT Department of Economic Development representatives, crafts co-ops, crafts societies, aborginal women's associations and the NWT Advisory Council on the Status of Women to analyse arts and crafts activities as they affect women. They were asked about their current situation, their problems,and...

Principal Investigator: Phipps, Karen
Licensed Year(s): 1988
Summary: Karen Phipps interviewed women in various community organizations. She wanted to what roles they have in the organizations. She also asked how organizations have responded to social and economic changes that have occurred in the last 30 years. She is using this information for her studies at Trent University....

Principal Investigator: MacLean, Lynne
Licensed Year(s): 1988
Summary: Lynne MacLean will be interviewing women and mental health workers about depression and how to overcome it. All interviews will be confidential. She wants to know whether the experience and effects of depression are different between Chipewyan and white women. She also will ask mental health workers what types of difficulties they experience when dealing with depression in native versus non-nat...

Principal Investigator: Crnkovich, Mary
Licensed Year(s): 1988 1987
Summary: Mary Crnkovitch's assistant, Angela Bernal, is completing the interviews required to produce a book on issues facing northern women. The book will cover topics ranging from giving birth, to women in politics, to special social problems such as family violence. The book should be published in the fall by the Canadian Arctic Resources Committee (CARC) in Ottawa....

Principal Investigator: Egan, Chris
Licensed Year(s): 1988
Summary: Ms. Egan will be interviewing some residents of Coral Harbour to look at the history of the types of employment that have been available in Coral Harbour. She is also interested in knowing how many and what jobs women have in relation to men....

Principal Investigator: Guay, Helene
Licensed Year(s): 1987
Summary: To study the situation of women, both at the family level and at the community level, engaged in the labour force. To trace the life story of individual women from social gender identification to childhood, to marriage and to job experiences....

Principal Investigator: O'Neil, John
Licensed Year(s): 1987
Summary: To carry out a study to evaluate the impact of obstetric evacuation policy on Inuit women and their families in the Keewatin....

Principal Investigator: Godel, John
Licensed Year(s): 1987
Summary: To carry our research in the Inuvik area on northern infant nutrition. To study the vitamin, mineral and nutritional status of women during pregnancy and breast-feeding, to relate these findings to both the vitamin status of their infants at birth and to the immunologic and clinical status of the infants at six weeks of age....

Principal Investigator: Bresnahan, Barb R.
Licensed Year(s): 1987
Summary: To interview women regarding their experiences and perceptions of the participation of women in the political process and leadership roles in the Northwest Territories, with the hope of discovering why so many women become politically active in the north....