This project aims to develop a climate change adaptation plan for rural communities located in Northwest New Brunswick within the jurisdiction of the Northwest Regional Service Commission following the ICLEI process and informed by engagement with citizens and decision-makers. We will also assess flood-readiness of communities within the jurisdiction and apply inclusive approaches to consultation. […]

Public transit offers both a relatively low GHG-to-passenger ratio and affordable options for local travel in comparison to personal vehicle travel, thusly presenting as a key area for making progress toward climate change mitigation and social justice. Working with stakeholders in the Greater Victoria Area, this project will identify, map, and examine three different new […]

Le biais de négativité désigne la tendance générale à être plus affecté par les informations et les événements négatifs que par ceux positifs. Dans ce projet, je fais l’argument que la culture est un facteur explicatif important mais peu étudié du biais de négativité. J’attends à ce que la culture collectiviste réduise le biais de […]

The goal of this research project is to better understand the dilemma faced by displaced persons needing to prove their identities to aid institutions without the assistance of formal documentation. While there are processes in place for addressing these situations, advances in distributed ledger technologies (DLT) may offer ways to improve efficiency and thereby improve […]

This research project aims to investigate strategies and approaches for designing and implementing sustainable, community-centered programs that effectively empower employed students, address local community needs, and have positive long-lasting effects on both the community and students. As an organization whose community programming relies heavily on student employment, the expected benefit to the Ecology Action Centre […]

The business partner is interested in finding ways to further automate small business lending and annual renewals. In recent years, with the improvement in efficient computing and data storage and movement, the use of deposit data in lending has become more prevalent in the industry. Within industry risk managers, it is widely accepted that deposit […]

The Province of Nova Scotia plans to double its population by 2060, resulting in about one million people living in Halifax. To combat climate change and biodiversity loss, Halifax needs to control its urban sprawl and focus growth in already serviced suburban areas. Since the 1960s, sprawling single-family homes which require a car have become […]

Le séjour de recherche au sein de l’institut Max Planck de Heidelberg doit me permettre de progresser dans la rédaction de ma thèse. Il doit me permettre de rédiger deux chapitres en particulier, et de finaliser la rédaction déjà avancée de deux autres chapitres. Outre l’environnement de travail de l’institut et ses fonds documentaires, je […]

My PhD dissertation is going to be focused on the Kubrawiyya Sufi order, a very influential spiritual community, which despite its massive importance has not received due attention from academics; the available modern scholarship on them has been predominantly concerned with the Kubrawis’ mystical doctrine, and the history of this order with all its crucial […]

Hiring an experienced law student with a background in immigration law can provide valuable knowledge, experience, and resources to a startup that connects newcomers with immigration services providers, which will better serve its clients and grow its business. The student’s knowledge and experience provide accurate and up-to-date information to newcomers, which can help them navigate […]

Alberta School Boards Association (ASBA) is the provincial association for Alberta’s locally-elected public, catholic and francophone school boards. A key component of the Marketing and Communications Intern’s responsibility is to use market research practices to enhance ASBA’s advocacy and communications efforts with various stakeholders including the Government of Alberta, membership and the public. The intern […]

Notre projet entend se concentrer sur une particularité du roman “Renart le Contrefait” (XIVe siècle) qui a jusqu’ici assez peu interpellé la critique : dans un monde inversé où des animaux s’approprient déjà les traits d’humains, des femelles anthropomorphisées renversent à leur tour l’ordre du monde et résistent à l’idéalisation d’un féminin obéissant et tempéré […]