L’agriculture conventionnelle présente plusieurs problèmes. Pour arriver à la transformer, il faut expérimenter des modalités alternatives. Un motel agricole est l’une de ces modalités. Elle permet de louer des terres sur petites parcelles à différents agriculteurs qui bénéficient également d’équipements et de bâtiments mis en commun. Dans le village de Saint-Camille, l’idée intéresse certains leaders […]

The Mapping our Common Ground Mitacs- supported Internships will support the Evaluation and Communications functions for the UVIC Community Mapping Collaboratory. Supported by lead Academics from UVIC and UBC, key staff working at the Collaboratory and key advisors from the Community Mapping Collaboratory Steering Ctte (including Wendy Brawer from the global Green Map system and […]

This project will provide an estimate of the direct and indirect costs of ADHD in Canada. The peer-reviewed report will be used by the partner organization to appeal to the different levels of government to publicly fund ADHD treatment in Canada. An existing model, developed by Takeda Pharmaceuticals, will be adjusted to the Canadian context. […]

We want to create an artificial intelligent assistant for businesses. It uses state-of-art Natural Language Processing models to understand what people say and seamlessly converting it into computer executable orders. For example, if someone asks, “How much did we spend on training?” it can turn that it into a meticulously structured SQL query such as […]

Ce projet de stage propose d’élaborer, en collaboration avec l’organisme partenaire, une nouvelle stratégie de financement permettant de s’affranchir du financement public. Il s’agit donc de mettre en place des activités et des relations permettant à l’organisme partenaire de se positionner dans le monde philanthropique et d’y trouver de nouvelles sources de financement. Ce projet […]

Providing compassionate care is essential to the delivery of high quality health care and services, and supports positive health outcomes. Providing compassionate care is an important goal for health care organizations, and to evaluate continuous quality improvement activities we require questionnaires to measure compassionate care. In the long-term care environment, some residents may experience severe […]

La Fibrose Kystique (FK) est une maladie génétique mortelle qui touche environ 1 canadien sur 3600. L’accumulation constante de mucus dans leurs poumons bloque les voies respiratoires et doit être expulsé de façon quotidienne, lors d’une série d’exercices thérapeutiques, afin de prévenir les infections pulmonaires. Cependant, la coopération demandée aux enfants peut mener à des […]

This project aims to provide much needed evidence to community organizations who want to use evaluation findings to better understand how to support vulnerable children and their families in schools. The All in for Youth initiative and its collaborative partners offer integrated, wraparound supports to improve academic outcomes and resiliency of vulnerable children, support family […]

This project seeks to enhance the impact of leadership training and development by evaluating the effectiveness of a digital program tailored for early-career leaders. Despite the vital role of leadership training, its success often remains uncertain. This research program, spanning two years, aims to bridge this gap by conducting three studies. Study 1 will validate […]

Around the world, tourism is having important and often drastic effects on the environment, minority cultures and livelihoods. This study focuses on the impacts that tourism is having on the culture and livelihoods of an ethnic minority group in southwest China—the Bai, whose population was 1.9 million in 2010. I will complete fieldwork in Dali, […]

The Rural Development Institute (RDI) and The Winnipeg Foundation (WpgFdn) want to collaborate with Manitoban community foundations (CF) to integrate a wellbeing framework in their operations. The project uses a community-based research approach employing focus groups to investigate the CF’s understanding of the Canadian Index of Wellbeing (CIW) and to reflect on their past and […]

Despite the contribution to food security, employment, poverty eradication, and community well-being, small-scale fisheries are neglected and remain vulnerable to a range of direct challenges, for example, conflicts with large-scale industrial fisheries and lack of government attention. Small-scale fisheries? transition from vulnerability to viability is complex and non-linear as the processes related to transition involve […]