Intégration d’une stagiaire étudiante à la maîtrise en muséologie dans la conception de projets au sein de l’équipe de Cadabra. Cadabra est un studio pluridisciplinaire situé à Montréal dont la mission consiste à transformer des récits et des contenus de toute nature en expériences collectives qui stimulent les sens, rassemblent et émerveillent. Cadabra puise dans […]

The Rescue Lake Simcoe Coalition wants to be more effective at engaging both at the individual level and the municipal government level around urban sprawl. The intern will bring capacity and develop tools and insights to do this more effectively via a concentrated project in the lead up to the municipal election.

Advances in healthcare and research are published in peer-reviewed biomedical journals all over the world. Our previous research shows that predatory journals, or fake academic journals, pose a threat to this. Predatory journals claim to publish high-quality research, but they do not follow accepted scientific publishing practices (e.g., peer review, indexing). If health decisions are […]

The Hamlet of Pangnirtung is exploring ways to improve the socio-economic development within the community. In preparation, and with the help of two Mitacs interns, the community would like to research various economic development models, the legal and social requirements for business development, existing local businesses, and explore other northern community socio-economic models, both in […]

In Canada, residents of rural, remote and Northern communities face limitations in access to and availability of Internet connectivity and services. They also generally pay more for slower, less reliable, and more expensive telecommunications services compared to southern and urban residents. Over the last several decades, many public policy and community-led initiatives have attempted to […]

Les lansquenets constituent, au début de l’époque moderne, le plus imposant groupe de mercenaires en Europe. Or, bien peu d’études dans les mondes anglophone et francophone ont comme sujet ces mercenaires allemands. Ainsi, le projet cherche à mettre en lumière cette figure importante de la première modernité. Pour se faire, un travail de recherche dans […]

In response to the current housing crisis, we are studying the effectiveness of tiny homes as a solution to transitional housing for housing insecure persons in the Region of Waterloo. We have completed an earlier phase of this research which produced a Tiny House prototype and propose to continue this research through the following two […]

The popularity of cryptocurrency has continued to increase over the past years and has raised serious policy concerns among Central Banks. Given the Bank of Canada’s role in maintaining financial stability, its 2019 Financial System Review identified the evolution of the cryptoasset market as one of six financial vulnerabilities that need to be monitored closely. […]

Cette étude vise à mieux comprendre dans quelle mesure la fermeture prolongée des salles de spectacle pendant la pandémie de COVID-19 a eu des effets sur les habitudes de consommation culturelle des publics des arts de la scène. Alors que la reprise se fait tranquillement dans ces milieux, comment la période que nous venons de […]

The purpose of this research project is to analyze and understand the relationship between the European Union and the Polish political party Law and Justice (Prawo i Sprawiedliwo??, PiS) in both the party’s present and past, with an emphasis on how the party has formed an identity in opposition to “European values” and creating a […]

Do voters become polarized because parties are polarized (top-down polarization) or do parties become polarized because voters are polarized (bottom-up polarization)? This project proposes that issue type determines whether ideological polarization follows a top-down or bottom-up trajectory. Voters adjust their positions to better match their party (top-down) on pragmatic issues such as economy because they […]

This research award will support two interns to work as part of an international research partnership between Dalhousie University, Harvard University, the University of Oxford, and the University of Pennsylvannia. We aim to investigate: (1) the impacts that expanding civilian rights and ability to use deadly force in self-defense across the United States have had […]