Student Support for Youth Employment Services

Youth Employment Services (YES) is an organization that delivers inclusive, low-barrier employment and training services to Manitoba youth between the ages of 16 to 29.YES provides one-on-one appointments for resume and cover letter writing, job searching, practicing interview skills, and more, in addition to offering free training and certification opportunities. YES is also heavily involved […]

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Littératies plurielles, valeurs et diversité culturelle : optimisation de l’expérience nouveaux médias d’albums interactifs de littérature jeunesse à l’intention des tout-petits

Les enfants francophones et non francophones d’âge préscolaire disposent de peu d’outils interactifs stimulants les prédisposant avec bienveillance à des littératies physique et langagière. Si en réponse à ce besoin bien réel, le site Muzikiddy a spontanément vu le jour en 2020, un cadre d’éducation-intervention-apprentissage dressé à la lumière des connaissances scientifiques probantes à ce […]

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Simulating policies to achieve 100% zero-emissions vehicle sales in Canada

The overall objective for this project is to support the research of two Master’s students to advance and apply methods for modelling climate policies in transport, a field in which START in the School of Resource and Environmental Management at SFU is one of the leading research teams in the country and in which Navius […]

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Bridging the gap: understanding relationships between art, “intangible” community assets, and climate actions and outcomes

A sense that arts practices have a critical role to play in supporting sustainability is long-standing; but, how arts can contribute to addressing these challenges is a question that is becoming more urgent due to climate change. Where science has lacked effective communication about climate change impacts, there is a hope that arts can create […]

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City of Toronto Heritage Census Project

The City of Toronto wishes to assemble a comprehensive set of available historical neighbourhood-scale Census data. While a wealth of historical Canadian Census data exist in the public domain, it is largely inaccessible to users who lack specialized training and skills due fragmentation of data holdings and their storage in different formats. Making use of […]

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Building an Evidence Base for an Innovative Harm Reduction Program

Grenfell Ministries is a peer-led, Unitarian Universalist faith-based non-for-profit that addresses the needs of people pushed to the margins of our society. A pioneering harm-reduction organization based in Hamilton, Ontario, Grenfell is built and led entirely by people who have experienced substance use disorder and associated struggles with poverty, homelessness, incarceration, and mental health challenges. […]

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Toronto Seed Strategy – Pilot Orchard Documentation

In the spring and summer of 2022, the Toronto Seed Strategy Working Group (TSSWG – a group of landscaping business owners, commercial plant growers, and plant researchers, convened by Jonas Spring of Ecoman Landscaping and Gardening) is initiating a Pilot Seed Orchard where locally-sourced, native plants will be grown to produce seeds for native plant […]

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La pratique du sport chez les adolescents en Mauricie

On remarque habituellement une baisse dans la pratique de l’activité physique chez les étudiants au secondaire comparativement au primaire, phénomène plus marqué chez les filles. Toutefois, en Mauricie, on constate un engouement particulier et grandissant pour la pratique du volleyball chez les adolescentes. En premier lieu, notre étude cherche à éclaircir les raisons qui font […]

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Transnational Alliances: Staging Hemispheric Performance Festivals in a Post-Pandemic World

“Transnational Alliances: Staging Hemispheric Performance Festivals in a Post-Pandemic World” examines the potential of co-creation and collaboration among artists, activists, and researchers from across the Americas in the context of re-emerging festivals—a context in which scholars and artists are grappling with the impact of the COVID crisis on performance as well as the environmental impact […]

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Correlating Manager Interpersonal Skills with Team Psychological Safety

Psychological safety has been consistently linked to positive workplace outcomes, including increased team learning and task performance (Edmondson, 1999; Newman et al., 2017). Previous research focusing on the development of psychological safety has identified several of its antecedents (Frazier et al., 2017). For instance, leaders have been found to play a critical role in shaping […]

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Community Based Participatory Research Strategies for Combining Creativity with Sustainability in the Arts and Beyond

The proposed Creativity and Sustainability post-doctoral fellowship will be situated at Mass Culture (MC), and executed in cooperation with University of Toronto Scarborough’s (UTSC) Urban Just Transitions (UJT). Over the years, MC and the scholars involved in UJT have experimented with various forms of community-engaged methods in order to generate impactful research that will inform […]

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