We create, share and mobilize knowledge on homelessness and housing insecurity in the Canadian North.
December 8, 2021
Stacey Fritz has a PhD in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and her doctoral thesis traced the legacies of the DEW Line in the western Arctic. She worked in public land management in the Arctic for 10 years, and is now at the National Renewable Energy Lab’s Cold Climate Housing Research Center… Read More
November 12, 2021
Bonnie Krysowaty is involved with numerous programs and initiatives related to housing, homelessness, and harm reduction in Thunder Bay, Ontario. She is the coordinator of the Poverty Reduction Strategy at the Lakehead Social Planning Council and manages the federal funding for homelessness initiatives through Reaching Home. She also manages the Out of the Cold program… Read More
November 2, 2021
On October 26, 2021 At Home in the North (AHIN) held a webinar entitled: Housing and COVID-19 in Thompson, where Colin Bonnycastle gave a presentation offering an update on the pandemic subproject funded by AHIN and led by members of AHIN from the Faculty of Social Work at the University of Manitoba. This research sought to… Read More
October 18, 2021
Travis is a cultural and medical anthropologist by training and is a faculty member in the Division of Population Health Sciences at the University of Alaska Anchorage. He is interested in applied health research, particularly issues of mental and behavioural health, housing and homelessness, fetal alcohol spectrum disorder and other disabilities, and community health. Read… Read More
October 7, 2021
AHIN’s fall newsletter is now available! The newsletter includes updates on the activities of each research direction, an article discussing our ongoing webinar series, and a series of news items and publications of interest to the partnership and anyone concerned by the state of northern housing and homelessness in Canada and beyond. Thank you to… Read More
September 21, 2021
At Home in the North is a research partnership within a Canada-wide collaboration of academics and community partners: The Collaborative Housing Research Network. The network is a joint initiative between the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). Collectively, we seek to fill knowledge gaps concerning northern… Read More
September 15, 2021
Rebecca Alty was born and raised in Yellowknife and has a Bachelor of Communication Studies from the University of Calgary. Rebecca has worked in community relations and communications for the Government of the Northwest Territories, Diavik Diamond Mine, AVENS – A Community for Seniors, and Stanton Territorial Hospital Foundation. In 2012, she began working in… Read More
August 31, 2021
Pertice Moffitt has a PhD in Nursing from the University of Calgary. She has lived in the Northwest Territories for over 30 years where she has practiced nursing as an educator and researcher. She is now a Research Associate with Aurora Research Institute where she focuses her work on women’s health, currently that includes intimate… Read More
August 23, 2021
Travis Hay was born and raised in Thunder Bay where he completed a HBA and MA in History at Lakehead University. He received a PhD in Canadian History from York University before returning to Thunder Bay to teach and conduct research as a Postdoctoral Fellow. He is a historian of Canadian federal Indian policy and… Read More
July 23, 2021
Queer Yukon is looking for an Academic partner and a paid student researcher for a one-year research project looking at LGBTQIA2S+ Yukoner’s experiences with housing across the territory. The project: The research question for this project is: What does LGBTQIA2S+ housing hardship (unsafe housing, housing insecurity and/or homelessness) look like in Yukon, and how is… Read More