Water Rangers uses citizen science to acquire baseline data for water bodies across Canada by giving and selling testkits to volunteers across Canada. This project will explore who is most likely to take part in water testing, what engagement strategies reduce dropout rates, and how testing water increase environmental concern by changing values and people’s […]

Panjiao ??, or “doctrinal classification” is a practice unique to Chinese Buddhism that was established during the early period when Buddhism spread to China. Panjiao allows a Buddhist school to envision its place (usually at the supreme position) in the overall Buddhist tradition. Panjiao represents the broadest look of a philosopher vis-à-vis the entire doctrinal […]

Many of St.Amant’s services are shifting to provide the most inclusive, supportive, community-based services with the intention of enhancing health, accessing to healthcare, and improving the quality of life of persons supported and that of their families and caregivers. As part of its vision statement, St.Amant is supporting a number of persons with intellectual and […]

This research aims to address to knowledge gaps in complex multi-stakeholder planning contexts. First, it involves better understanding engagement methods and value elicitation techniques with the purpose of decision making in multiple urban/rural planning contexts. Second, it will research and develop a participatory monitoring and evaluation (M&E) framework to be applied in a First Nations […]

Early childhood (up to age 5 years) is an important and vulnerable period of development. Cognitive and socio-emotional skills during this period are strong predictors of later life outcomes such as employment status, mental health, and overall well-being. Children are particularly sensitive to external factors in this period, and it is therefore important to understand […]

Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, while coastal ‘Special Economic Zones’ and ‘Open Cities’ flourished in eastern China, western regions still languished in relative poverty. To bridge this gap, Chinese authorities launched an ambitious development campaign in 2000: the “Western Development Program”, aimed at bringing domestic and foreign investment, expertise and capital into the vastness of […]

La transition de l’adolescence à l’âge adulte est une étape charnière qui coïncide avec l’apparition et la chronicisation de problématiques coûteuses pour l’individu et la société (ex. : chômage,sous-scolarisation, pauvreté chronique). Bien que ces problématiques soient plus fréquentes auprès des populations vulnérables, ces dernières sont sous-représentées dans la recherche, qui se centre typiquement sur les […]

ans cette proposition de recherche, une étude connexe est proposée en vue d’investiguer trois questions de recherche clés. Dans l’étude, nous chercherons à determiner si la perte auditive (PA) et l’utilisation d’aides auditives (AA) chez les personnes âgées ayant une perte auditive liée à l’âge (PALA) ont un impact sur la qualité de vie (QV) […]

Malgré la pénurie de main-d’oeuvre, l’intégration des personnes en situation de handicap dans les entreprises reste faible. Plus précisément, 39% des personnes avec incapacité occupent un emploi comparé à 72% des personnes sans incapacité (OPHQ, 2014). Ne pas avoir d’emploi est l’un des principaux facteurs de risques d’exclusion sociale (OPHQ, 2017). Cette recherche examine les […]

This is a program of research activities through which we will create and compile materials about L’nu and broader Indigenous histories and experiences related to military history. Our materials are to guide the Atlantic Memorial Park Society in its development of Indigenous content at their new heritage site in North Sydney. Songs, Stories and Sacred […]

The objective of this proposed research is to examine how multiculturalism is experienced and practised in community by women from different cultural backgrounds. Drawing on everyday life stories created by the study participants, we aim to obtain empirical knowledge about impacting factors that positively influence immigrant integration and resettlement experience. Such knowledge will contribute to […]

Bien qu’il ne semble pas y avoir de consensus en ce qui concerne le concept d’attitude envers l’argent, la plupart des chercheurs s’intéressant au sujet considèrent qu’il « s’agit d’un construit psychologique stable qui est caractérisé par les significations que l’individu attribue à l’argent et qui conduit à des types de comportements à son égard […]