Dino Island: Improving Executive Functioning in Very Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Many children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) have problems with attention and executive functions (EF). Cognitive interventions have great potential to improve attention/EF and related skills (e.g., academic learning, social function, behaviour etc.), but few such interventions exist with even fewer that can be delivered at home. In light of COVID-19, parent-delivered interventions are crucial […]

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Feasibility Study for Indigenous Women’s Second-stage Housing in Canada

The partner organization, the National Aboriginal Circle Against Family Violence (NACAFV), is conducting a Feasibility Study for constructing on-reserve second-stage housing. A section of the Study is on the technical aspects of this type of housing which is for women who wish to leave their homes permanently because of domestic violence. The design of the […]

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National Occupancy Standards and Housing Women After Violence Research Project

The research conducted will result in a policy analysis, policy recommendations and knowledge translation materials on the National Occupancy Standards and their unintended barriers to housing for women experience violence. This research will be gathered through stakeholder engagement, an environmental scan, and qualitative data gathering (interviews or focus groups) to determine the key issues, the […]

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Gamifying Shakespeare: Theorizing and Designing Game-Based Digital Media for Stratford Festival Audience Engagement

The post-doctoral fellow will act as an academic liaison between the Stratford Festival and the University of Waterloo’s Games Institute’s joint project on a series of Shakespeare-themed video games and apps. The Festival will benefit from a development of new games. This project also offers numerous scholarly products as output, including a growing partnership between […]

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Design and Dementia with ASBC

In this internship a student will work with the Health Design Lab at Emily Carr University and Alzheimer Society of BC to conduct research and design work related to design and dementia. Alzheimer Society of B.C. works to support and create a more dementia-friendly society, where people affected by dementia are acknowledged, supported and included. […]

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Reducing Debt Sentences: Evaluating the Use of Human Rights Discourse by the Canadian Federation of Students in Support of Universal Higher Education

As affordable post-secondary education is a growing problem in Canada, centralized student advocacy groups like the Canadian Federation of Students – Manitoba (CFS-MB) are working to advocate for universally accessible higher education to ensure every Canadian has the equal opportunity to pursue advanced studies. This research will review universal higher education as a human right […]

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Demystifying Maritime Governance:Analysis of the frameworks and emerging issues for the governance of shipping in Canada

This project will undertake research on the governance of shipping Canada (a) to explain its global and domestic structures, frameworks, actors, interconnections, and processes in the simplest terms possible and (b) to analyse contemporary major drivers of change in the system. Four transformative issue areas will be addressed, namely the interface between shipping and Indigenous […]

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Placemaking and cosmology in Tsimshian rock art

A close relationship with the land is an integral part of the worldview of Tsimshian people, whose territory is on the northern coast of North America. Key places were marked as pictographs and petroglyphs (rock art), many of which are recorded as specific events in Tsimshianic oral tradition. This project seeks to advance the understanding […]

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La prise en compte des enjeux associés à l’eau dans l’élaboration d’un plan d’adaptation aux changements climatiques d’une MRC rurale, étude de cas de la MRC des Sources

L’ampleur et la vitesse des changements climatiques nécessitent une intervention forte en matière de réduction des émissions de GES mais aussi, à court et moyen terme, le déploiement de plans d’adaptation permettant une réduction des impacts environnementaux, sociaux, économiques et de santé humaine. Ces plans d’adaptation ont une forte assise régionale et les organismes régionaux, […]

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A case study exploring the experiences of Black students in Canadian Higher Education studying English or Science

An exploration of undergraduate Black students’ experience of higher education at the Univerisity of Calgary. In order to explore the experiences of Black students who specifically study English or Science at the univeristy, we intend to recruit at least five undergraduate students from each subject, and conduct a group semi-structured interview with each group about […]

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Co-production of an eHealth application to improve the identification and prediction of early life health risk and resilience

The project aims to progress the development of a cloud-based application that will help healthcare professionals to identify and predict exposures in early life that might affect the chances of their patients experiencing ill-health in later life. It will do this by incorporating the views, values and requirements of its intended users (and those who […]

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