 Jack Hicks is a social scientist living in Iqaluit, Nunavut. He is co-ordinator of the Qaujivallianiq inuusirijauvalauqtunik (‘Learning from lives that have been lived’) suicide follow-back study. He is also an external Ph.D. student at Ilisimatusarfik (The University of Greenland), writing a dissertation on the social determinants of elevated rates of Inuit youth suicide.
Jack moved to the Arctic “for a summer” in 1981, and after working in a range of positions across the pre-division Northwest Territories moved to Ottawa in 1991 to become Executive Director of the Inuit Tapirisat of Canada. He returned north to Iqaluit in 1994 to serve as Director of Research for the Nunavut Implementation Commission. From 1999 to 2004 he was the Government of Nunavut’s Director of Evaluation and Statistics.
Recent publications:
Hicks, J. “Education in the Canadian Arctic: What difference has the Nunavut government made?” Indigenous Affairs 2005:2. pp. 8-15.
Hicks, J., and G. White. "Nunavut: Inuit self-determination through a land claim and public government?" in: Nunavut: Inuit regain control of their lands and their lives. (eds. J. Dahl, J. Hicks and P. Jull) Copenhagen: International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs, 2000.
email: jack@jackhicks.com
Link: Website for study |
