Recently PLS has signed a contract with the Ministry of Education in Manitoba. The province has been experiencing declining math scores across the province in both international tests such as PISA and in their provincial standardized tests. Manitoba is deeply committed to improving students mathematical achievement and as a result has hired PLS to develop […]

This research project will be conducted through internship research by students in the Master in Northern Governance and Development (MNGD). The MNGD is a project-based, interdisciplinary program meant to build capacity among northerners in northern Saskatchewan through a blended delivery model including face-to-face, videoconferencing, online and international field school instruction. The 2013-2014 internship research project […]

Many of St.Amant’s services are shifting to provide the most inclusive, supportive, community-based services with the intention of enhancing health, accessing to healthcare, and improving the quality of life of persons supported and that of their families and caregivers. As part of its vision statement, St.Amant is supporting a number of persons with intellectual and […]

Hospital readmission from in-patient psychiatry is increasingly problematic for patients and care administrators, as they often are associated with poor clinical outcomes and higher care costs. An understanding of factors that predispose in-patient psychiatry patients to hospital readmission would be critical in improving patient care and reducing healthcare-related costs. My research proposes to use machine […]

Le présent projet a pour objectif d’évaluer les impacts de l’implantation d’une brigade débarcadère aux abords d’écoles primaire sur la sécurité routière des élèves qui les fréquentent. Par l’utilisation d’observations sur le terrain à l’aide de grilles d’évaluation, l’équipe de recherche pourra mesurer les effets de telles brigades sur les comportements routiers aux abords des […]

Lors de mon séjour en Espagne, j’exploiterai les données récoltées par le chercheur David Sanchez-Carracedo lors d’une étude qu’il a réalisée en contexte prépandémique. Par le biais d’analyses et en me basant sur la littérature existante au Canada ainsi qu’en Espagne, je comparerai ces données avec celles que me procure ma directrice de recherche actuelle […]

Pénurie de main-d’œuvre, transformation numérique, concurrence étrangère; le rythme de travail s’accélère, s’intensifie et la charge des travailleurs augmente, plus particulièrement depuis la pandémie de la COVID-19. L’autonomisation du travail a permis d’éliminer certaines tâches routinières et de gagner en efficacité, mais elle contribue également à complexifier la tâche et à augmenter les ressources cognitives […]

Face à la nécessité de décarboner et réduire l’impact environnemental de l’économie québécoise, le Front commun pour la transition énergétique (FCTÉ) développe un scénario de transition dont la ligne directrice est une réduction de moitié de la consommation en énergie. Une telle réduction de la consommation d’énergie, combinée à un mix adéquat de politiques publiques, […]

Like most Canadian municipalities, the City of Ottawa is struggling to reign in urban sprawl and encourage sustainable residential development. According to my doctoral research, few residential developers in Ottawa are heeding the call to build green. Profits and markets are larger for single detached houses in the suburbs, and housing consumers choose green construction […]

This study will survey health care and social service providers, as well as parents, in a Northern Ontario community to determine how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted availability of and access to services for postnatal mood and anxiety disorders (PMADs).

In this project, the goal is to manipulate the temporal variability of rhytmic auditory cues to test its effect on gait in young adults. Young adults will walk alone without any auditory cues and then will walk to the sounds of rhythmic sequences. The rythmic sequences will either be isochronous, random (non-biological variability) or fractal […]

This project looks at the drivers, impact and actor-groups that lead to successful Social Innovations. Social Innovation has prominence in both the public and private sectors, as a way to reform societal relations and create system level change, in the structure of relationships with the goal of empowering community actors to lead the development of […]