L’inclusion en emploi des personnes en situation de handicap invisible:une recherche-intervention

Au Québec, les personnes en situation de handicap invisible (PSHI) sont fortement sous-représentées dans les milieux de travail. Pourtant, les recherches confirment qu’elles pourraient offrir une solution novatrice au plein-emploi en plus de démontrer l’importance du travail comme vecteur d’intégration sociale pour ces personnes. Afin d’aborder cette problématique, plusieurs stratégies visant à inclure ces personnes […]

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Galileo Partners

Galileo Partners est un cabinet dédié à l’accompagnement de société clientes en matière de mobilité internationale. Galileo, détenant une expertise dans la mobilité internationale des talents, a choisi d’étendre sa gamme de services pour accompagner les entreprises canadiennes avec l’attraction, l’acquisition, l’intégration et la rétention des talents. Et ce, avec la proposition unique d’une stratégie […]

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Creating and testing effective teacher curriculum guides for the educational versions of Ubisoft’s Assassins Creed games

The Assassin’s Creed series is viewed by the public and educators as a promising educational tool rife with historical settings, characters, and events (e.g., Chapman, 2013). Yet, its use in formal education has lagged (Gilbert, 2017) because educators’ lack understanding (i.e., knowing how to teach with a technology, Mishra & Koehler, 2008) and acceptance (i.e., […]

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Investigation of supportive policy for Active School Travel: Evidence-based recommendations for policies to promote active transportation for school journeys

Walking and wheeling to/from school represents an important source of physical activity for children. As policy decisions about how we build our neighbourhoods, schools, and transportation systems have changed, we have seen a worrisome decrease in the number of children who use active modes of travel to get to/from school. We have limited research mapping […]

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Empowerment et disempowerment dans les organisations de travail alternatives

L’objectif de ce projet de recherche est de mettre en pratique le concept central du mémoire de recherche de Samuel Dupuis : le « disempowerment », afin d’en comprendre les différentes utilisations pratiques et lacunes potentielles dans la réalité. Il s’agira d’observer en quoi le processus de responsabilisation et de développement, aussi personnel que collectif, […]

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Mouvement des accélérateurs d’innovation du Québec

Le Mouvement des accélérateurs d’innovation du Québec (MAIN) a été créé en 2015 afin de renforcer l’écosystème québécois d’accompagnement des entreprises à fort potentiel de croissance en permettant aux accélérateurs et incubateurs d’entreprises (AIE) de mettre leurs réseaux, ressources et pratiques en commun afin d’augmenter leur impact sur les jeunes entreprises innovantes du Québec.Le projet […]

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Waterloo Affordable Housing Living Lab (WAHLL)

Waterloo Region is facing an acute housing crisis across the housing continuum. Waterloo Affordable Housing Living Lab (WAHLL) is an applied research collaborative aimed at understanding the local housing system to better enable investment in sustainable solutions. WAHLL is comprised of the Kitchener Waterloo Community Foundation (KWCF), Union: Sustainable Development Co-operative (Union Co-operative), and University […]

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Putting the science of literacy into the hands of Canadians

Ensuring high levels of literacy for all children is now more important than ever. However, the Canadian landscape of literacy is quickly changing. For instance, Canadian families come from increasingly multilingual and multicultural backgrounds and the use of technology and digital media in literacy is growing rapidly. In this Mitacs project, we have partnered with […]

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Feasibility of the Get A-Head® App for Clinical Psychology Research and Training in Emotion Focused Family Therapy

Due to COVID-19, adoption of and investment in technological solutions for remote mental health services (teletherapy) is rapidly increasing. While the evidence-base for teletherapy for individuals is robust, teletherapy research with families has been limited. Further, uptake of teletherapy by clinical training programs has been slow and knowledge about the feasibility of using these interfaces […]

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Setup for Success: Improving pathways for talent retention

There is a perceived talent supply and demand gap in Nova Scotia’s ICT and digital tech sector and recruitment is at top of mind for employers. Hiring new employees can be time consuming and costly, however a well-planned onboarding program can increase the proficiency of a new hire and increase retention rates. The objective of […]

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Maternal Augmentation and Digital Empowerment Initiative in Tanzania (MADE-IT)

Shortages of skilled healthcare professionals and unequal distribution of healthcare professionals throughout the country are two key challenges causing unexpectedly high number of preventable maternal deaths in Tanzania. Hence, developing innovative solutions that take fewer resources but have a wider impact on Tanzanian midwifery education system is crucial to avert these deaths. Canadian Network for […]

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