Different states’ laws and law enforcement capacities meet in border areas. The legal and regulatory differences, the distinct police and administrative capabilities involved, as well as the degree of commitment of state authorities, create rent potentials that are central to border dynamics and the frequent instability that prevails in border regions. This has been traced […]

Major cities in Canada and across the world are undergoing housing crises that are pushing its vulnerable residents into housing insecurity. Security of tenure is a lesser-known and researched element that contributes to housing insecurity and its negative health and wellbeing impacts. To ensure the positive health and wellbeing outcomes of cities’ families and their […]

Cette thèse a pour objectif d’analyser le poids d’acteurs supranationaux dans la mise à l’agenda de politiques nationales d’éducation, qui demeurent une prérogative étatique. Comment les pratiques d’acteurs supranationaux influencent-elles la mise à l’agenda de politiques nationales?? Afin de répondre à cette question, cette recherche se concentre sur l’influence des pratiques de l’OCDE (Organisation de […]

À l’heure actuelle, les musées se voient contrés à innover avec dans leurs pratiques de médiation avec les technologies numérique. Dans cet élan pour concevoir des alternatives adéquates en lien avec les publics et les objectifs de chacune de ces institutions, des laboratoires d’incubation de projets en médiation numérique destinés à accueillir des initiatives muséales […]

Le quartier de la Petite Bourgogne, à Montréal, connait des problèmes d’accessibilité alimentaire. De nombreux habitants n’ont pas accès à des denrées saines, abordables et en quantité suffisante à proximité de leur logement. Le quartier est considéré comme un désert alimentaire dans lequel les épiceries sont absentes ou à grande distance des résidences. Un accès […]

Dans les pays en voie de développement, des enquêtes sont utilisées pour mesurer le niveau de pauvreté des ménages. Pour étendre cette information à l’ensemble de la population, il est nécessaire de prédire la pauvreté des ménages à partir des enquêtes et d’imputer cette prédiction à chaque ménage du recensement. L’utilisation de ces données permet […]

Participatory plant breeding (PPB), which pairs farmers’ knowledge with the skills of formal plant breeders, is increasingly being recognized as an effective approach to develop better varieties for organic farming systems because it uses the environmental conditions of working organic farms as selection environments and incorporates farmers’ needs and observations in the selection criteria. PPB […]

This project revisits Canadian and imperial history, seeking to understand the relationship between constitutions, settler colonialism, and globalization, which shaped and continues to shape Canada and the world. Understanding them in this era of populism and nationalist governments is particularly urgent. Constitutions remain central to liberal democratic self-understanding and critically reexamining their spread among British […]

My research project will explore how playwrights John Dryden and William Davenant used their 1667 adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest to establish a normative model for socially acceptable masculinity in response to the rapidly changing gender dynamics of the Restoration stage. My project hypothesizes that Dryden and Davenant used the supernatural island setting of Shakespeare’s […]

The proposed research project is a formative evaluation and pilot-test of the implementation of Exercise is Medicine on Campus (EIM-OC)® at the University of Guadalajara (UdeG), Mexico. EIM® is a global initiative that seeks to make physical activity (PA) assessment and PA promotion the standard of care for the prevention, management, and treatment of chronic […]

A growing number of language tests have been designed to assess four skills of language integratively rather than isolatedly. With the guidance of Green’s (2007) washback model on washback direction, variability, and intensity, this study adopts a two-phase embedded concurrent mixed-method design to investigate the influence of TOEFL iBT on students’ learning of integrated English […]

The purpose of this project will be to explore the types of experiences that service parents in England are having when moving and transitioning their adolescent(s) into a new school. This project will explore different factors (e.g., the child, the family, the school, etc.) that can influence the school transition process and experience. Individuals who […]