Research
Read how they describe their research on their Lakehead University profile.
Latest funding
- $25,000
Tracking change: global knowledge symposium mobilizing local and traditional knowledge on fishing livelihoods
SSHRC · 2016 · Co-investigator
- $74,000
What’s Bred in the Bone: Developing a Historical Understanding of Past Resource and Sustainable Community Development
SSHRC · 2015 · Co-investigator
- $199,972
Toxic legacies: community perspectives on arsenic pollution at Yellowknife's giant mine
SSHRC · 2012 · Co-investigator
No publications available.
Tracking change: global knowledge symposium mobilizing local and traditional knowledge on fishing livelihoods
Principal investigators: Parlee, Brenda L.
Keywords: traditional knowledge; indigenous; watershed; monitoring; indicators; livelihoods; impacts; climate; development; policies; governance
What’s Bred in the Bone: Developing a Historical Understanding of Past Resource and Sustainable Community Development
Principal investigators: Beaulieu, Michel
Keywords: (1) northern communities; (2) forestry; (3) natural resources; (4) single-industry towns; (5) community development; (6) declining economies; (7) shifting economies; (8) developing world; (9) industrial development; (10) community resilience
Toxic legacies: community perspectives on arsenic pollution at Yellowknife's giant mine
Principal investigators: Sandlos, John K.
Keywords: mine remediation; mining impacts on First Nations; giant mine remediation project; Yellowknife; NWT; arsenic impacts; perpetual care of hazardous waste; communicating hazardous sites to future generations; public dissemination
Resources and sustainable development in Arctic
Principal investigators: Southcott, Chris J.
Keywords: community development; resource development; Arctic societies
Pulp friction: the intersection of globalization and community
Principal investigators: Harpelle, Ronald
Keywords: documentary film; website; publications
Hard work conquers all: mobilizing knowledge about the Finnish experience in Canada
Principal investigators: Beaulieu, Michel S.
Keywords: Finnish-Canadians; Northern Ontario; immigration; labour; ethnic studies; Canadian history; community groups; virtual museum; culture
FinnForum IX - An International Conference
Principal investigators: Harpelle, Ronald
Keywords: international conference; Finnish studies; history; Finland; Canada; diaspora; immigration; globalization
Northern communities in a changing world: towards a better understanding of global competition
Principal investigators: Harpelle, Ronald
Keywords: northern development; globalization; competition; resource industries; social development; economics; history; sociology
Adaptation and resistance to the information age in natural resource dependent regions in Canada and Norway
Principal investigators: Dunk, Thomas W.
Keywords: regional development; environment; globalization; resistance; adaptation; Norway; Canada (Northern Ontario)
Protestant churches, missionaries and imperialists on the Central American Frontier
Principal investigators: Harpelle, Ronald N.
Keywords: Central America; Protestant; church; Anglican; Church of England; missions; banana industry; enclave; Costa Rica; Panama; Panama Canal; Panama Canal zone; Nicaragua; Guatemala; Honduras; Belize; Britain; United States; religion
From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.
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Profile data last refreshed on September 29, 2026 from the university directory, publication records and public research funding records.