Building a ‘youth operating system’: Security, safety, inclusivity, and digital platform possibilities for youth-centred social innovation

The research proposed here will explore core issues, risks, and limitations to direct the design and development of a ‘youth operating system’ (YOS) centred on providing a safe, secure, privacy-preserving, and inclusive multi-featured online environment for youth. Any project that engages youth requires substantive policies, terms and conditions, and platform functionality that ensure its Users […]

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Wartime Policy Making and Governance: Ukraine and Canada Higher Education Alliance

Involving some of the smartest students in Ukraine, the research project and partnership will enrich the Master of Global Affairs and Master of Public Policy programs at the Munk School. KSE students will provide Munk community a window into the Ukrainian policymaking process as well as a more general understanding of governance during conflict, Simultaneously, […]

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Deneschuk Homes: Software installation and implementation

The intern will work with Deneschuk Homes and the academic supervisor to Implement new software for the business. This software will improve the work flow process in the contruction of custom build ready-to-move houses for customers and for the organization. The intern will also develop staff training and evaluation modules in the use of the […]

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Co-creation of a roadmap for data and information infrastructure for youth homelessness prevention

The research project aims to co-create a roadmap for data and knowledge infrastructure that contributes to youth homeless prevention in Canada. A roadmap will be created through collaboration between researchers, policymakers, service providers, and people with lived experience of youth homelessness. Based on the stakeholders’ concerns, priorities and needs identified in the initial phase, the […]

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Non(Sleep)Social: Reclaiming the silent night

The project focuses on the benefits of wakefulness at night through listening, and listening collectively, in the context of public programs for exhibitions. (NON)SLEEP SOCIAL challenges ideas around sleep and sleep ‘disorders’ such as insomnia as unwanted wakefulness during the night. The project focuses on the potential of all night cultural events within the context […]

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Peer to Peer (P2P): Speaking Up About Vaccine Safety

The proposed project will evaluate the Peer-to-Peer (P2P) project co-lead by NorWest Community Health Centres (NWCHC) and Dilico Anishinabek Family Care (Dilico). The project evaluation will explore if the interventions utilized by the P2P project have increased vaccination uptake in the identified vulnerable populations in Thunder Bay and District. The project’s efforts in increasing COVID-19 […]

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Indigenous Foodlands Conservation Areas

The Indigenous Foodlands Conservation Areas Project will conduct participatory action research with Elders, Indigenous knowledge holders and Indigenous law/governance experts to support the BC Working Group on Indigenous Food Sovereignty and the IISAK OLAM Foundation in the process of mapping out and advocating for Indigenous Foodland Conservation Areas in Neskonlith Secwepemc territory. In the Neskonlith […]

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SSE_ADNANEBELOUT-IUSMM-SARAHBÉGINTREMBLAY – Projet innovateur en optimisation du processus de dotation des cadres à l’hôpital de l’Institut universitaire en santé mentale de Montréal (IUSMM)

Projet innovateur en optimisation du processus de dotation des cadres à l’Institut universitaire en santé mentale de Montréal (IUSMM). Au Québec, le marché du travail traverse une importante pénurie de main-d’œuvre depuis la pandémie de la COVID-19. Cette dernière touche également les cadres. Il s’agit donc d’un défi de taille pour la dotation des cadres […]

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Le pont Kintai et l’architecture des ponts au Japon à l’angle des crises environnementales (16 – 18e siècle)

La période s’étalant du 16e au 18e siècle au Japon fût marquée par des épisodes successifs de guerre et de paix, de crises environnementales et de vagues de construction pour marquer la fin des conflits. De nouveaux bâtiments, routes et infrastructures marquent en ce sens l’époque Edo, qualifiée largement pour sa prospérité relative. Or, ce […]

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Assessing the Impact of the Program Integrity Framework: Engaging Family-Links in the Private Sponsorship of Refugees (PSR) Program in the Context of Program Assurance

Canada’s Private Sponsorship of Refugees (PSR) program has gained a lot of international attention from countries around the world. Since the program’s inception, emerging literature has appropriately captured the increasing shift from the ‘welcoming the stranger’ model to ‘kin-linked’ based sponsorships. Today, linked-sponsorships make up the majority or private sponsorships. Further, in the Fall of […]

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MNL Municipalities Fiscal Framework Benchmarking Project

Designing the most effective and efficient source of revenue is one of the leading policy challenges in the municipal sector today. Generally speaking, municipalities own and operate 60% of the built public infrastructure in the country, but are limited to approximately 8% of the aggregate tax revenue generated in the country by all three orders […]

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Développement d’outils numériques afin de prévenir et réduire les risques psychosociaux au travail : Une approche collaborative par un regroupement en santé durable au travail

Les milieux de travail comportent souvent des risques qui peuvent nuire à la santé des travailleurs tels que les risques chimiques ou biologiques et les risques psychosociaux (RPS). Ces derniers correspondent à des mauvaises conditions de travail (ex. : grande charge de travail, manque de reconnaissance, conflits, etc.) et peuvent amener au développement d’atteintes à […]

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