This project learns from the experience of participants in an eight-week Mind-Body Medicine program (MBM). Mind-Body Medicine (MBM) teaches people how to help themselves by uncovering and engaging their inner resources and building resilience, broadly understood. The eight-week MBM program will be delivered through the Iris Centre for Mindfulness, Peace and Healing in Fredericton. The […]

Since 2010, Kenneth Gordon Maplewood School (KGMS), a private K-12 school on the North shore that serves children with learning differences, has worked in collaboration with design students from Emily Carr University of Art + Design (ECU). Over the last three years graduate interns have engaged with this partnership, working with Anji Dawson, Counselor and […]

Ontario, Canada has an extreme lack of affordable housing. This study intends to encourage holistic planning by understanding the community benefits of affordable housing projects. The goal of the project is to create an assessment framework which can be used by municipalities and housing organizations to value the benefits of affordable housing projects. These benefits […]

Comment rendre compte d’une expérience collective à partir de l’écriture de l’intime ? Telle est la question qui hante la lecture des œuvres de Simone de Beauvoir, de François Bon, d’Annie Ernaux, de Georges Perec et de Mathieu Riboulet. En entrecroisant leur mémoire personnelle à la mémoire collective, ces auteurs et autrices consignent une expérience […]

The City of Vancouver has an aspirational goal to become a zero waste community by 2040, a goal that includes the development of a circular economy of food (CEF). A circular economy is where every material, including food, is used to its full extent and nothing is wasted or treated as garbage. Funding from Mitacs […]

Bicycling has risen in popularity in many cities in recent decades, including Vancouver. However, some potential cyclists face barriers to taking up cycling, including the fact that many older buildings have insufficient bike storage facilities and other issues relating to bike security, building policies, etc. The ‘Cycling Equity and Older Buildings’ project will use interviews, […]

The Art of Working Together: Developing a Sustainable Model for Arts Informed Research as Social Practice aims to strengthen the capacity of Centre[3] for Artistic and Social Practice (Centre[3]) to support community-based arts-informed research as social practice by developing a model for sustainable partnerships. Centre[3] has a long tradition of research collaborations with institutions (university/college/hospital), […]

Le projet a pour objectif de développer une méthodologie qui permette de comparer automatiquement les variations terminologiques et sémantiques entre deux communautés de discours expertes dans le domaine du changement climatique, en s’appuyant sur les outils de Traitement Automatique du Langage (TAL). Il vise à éclairer la problématique de l’expertise dans le domaine du changement […]

In Canada, about 1 in every 3 Canadians has a medical condition, or takes medication, that would be important to know about in an emergency situation. That’s why, since 1961, Medic Alert Foundation Canada (MAFCA) has helped to protect over 1 million Canadians by helping first responders and healthcare providers get access to health information […]

Au Québec, 12% des enfants qui entrent à l’école présentent des vulnérabilités sur les plans social ou affectif. Ces enfants, majoritairement des garçons, sont à risque de vivre des difficultés scolaires persistantes, et ce, même s’ils ont de bonnes habiletés cognitives. La collaboration école-famille fait partie des éléments qui peuvent aider ces enfants à bien […]

LGBTQIA2S+ individuals face barriers and challenges in gaining employment in tech, resulting in their underrepresentation in the industry. Research on this issue is sparse and incomplete. To address this labour-market gap in Canada and improve opportunities, we propose a mixed-methods research study that includes a quantitative survey about LGBTQIA2S+ experiences in tech companies and qualitative […]

L’Institut national de formation et de recherche-action (Infra) est un organisme à but non lucratif dont une partie de sa mission est d’offrir des formations destinées aux OBNL. Dans le but de développer un nouveau créneau de formation et de répondre aux besoins des collectivités, l’Infra souhaite élaborer et évaluer une formation portant sur l’intégration […]