Missing Links 2024: Identifying Gaps in Active Transportation Infrastructure in Edmonton

In 2019, Paths for People conducted the Missing Links Campaign. This project sought to call attention to missing pieces of active transportation infrastructure. Having a thoroughly-connected active transportation network is crucial to getting users to walk, roll, or cycle more often, as people generally choose forms of transportation that are safe and easy to navigate. […]

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Artificial Intelligence and Cinematographic Collaboration

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has permeated various sectors, including the creative industry, moving traditional workflows, offering economic potentials, and introducing novel social problems (or upscaling previous ones). In the film industry, AI technologies are increasingly employed for tasks ranging from screenwriting to VFX, in situations ranging from the management of major investments in film production for […]

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Les partenariats publics privés en sécurité au Québec : un état de la situation

Ce projet a pour objectif de dresser un panorama des partenariats public privé en sécurité (PPPS) au Québec. Alors que la gouvernance partenariale en sécurité se profile comme un moyen de plus en plus privilégié pour produire, distribuer et contrôler la sécurité dans nos sociétés contemporaines, peu d’études empiriques ont cherché à en évaluer le […]

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Community Gardens Mapping Project

From May 2023 to August 2023, our project aims to address the identified need for a centralized mapping resource for Community Gardens and Pop-Up Community Gardens. The project will deliver a comprehensive map informing future placements of both types of gardens, including historical information, geographical positioning, and demographic data. Tasks involve researching and compiling historical […]

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Santé mentale et qualité des services prodigués par la brigade des feux : mieux comprendre les leviers potentiels d’intervention au travail

Ce projet de recherche en collaboration avec le service d’incendie de Moncton vise à mieux comprendre les difficultés vécues par les pompier(ière)s et les leviers potentiels d’intervention au travail face à ces problématiques. Ainsi, le présent projet vise à examiner le lien entre des exigences du travail (charge de travail et demandes émotionnelles), les ressources […]

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Development of Strategic Market Assessment Tools for Materials R&D

Chemia Discovery is a company that specializes in the research and development of new materials that can enhance the performance and sustainability of various technologies and enable emergent technologies. Chief among the materials explored at Chemia are those with applications for waste heat recovery and carbon capture. Chemia evaluates potential material R&D projects based on […]

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EPCOR / NAIT for a Summer COOP Student

This proposal is for the development of an exercise for catastrophic event that could significantly impact EPCOR’s operations and its ability to provide electricity, water or wastewater treatment services to over three million customers in Alberta. The findings from this project will significantly enhance EPCOR’s ability to plan for, respond to, continue operations and recover […]

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Saskatoon Food Bank and Learning Centre Project

A long-standing community-based organization, the Saskatoon Food Bank & Learning Centre (SFBLC) started as a temporary project in the summer of 1983. A year later, it was incorporated as a non-profit entity and remains “committed to ensuring a food-secure community where all people have access to safe, affordable, and nutritious food.” The SFBLC currently offers […]

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La Brigade d’entraide : vecteur d’un chez-soi stable, sécuritaire et sain.

Même si une personne a accès à un logement social, il peut arriver que celle-ci a de la difficulté à prendre soin de son logement. Des troubles cognitifs par exemple peuvent l’empêcher de constater que son logement est devenu insalubre faute d’entretien de sa part. La Brigade d’entraide, un organisme communautaire de la ville de […]

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Designing Service Transitions

Traditional approaches to healthcare in Canada are being transformed by new care models that address key challenges including a shifting tax base, changing consumer expectations, and the disruptive impacts of new technologies. These new care models offer an opportunity to rethink how health care services are designed and delivered. Our partners in the proposed research […]

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