The aim of the study is to examine the opportunities for adaptation to climate change in rural fisheries communities. Rural Indigenous fisher populations in particular have been identified as being uniquely sensitive to the effects of climate change, reflecting their often-close relationship to the environment and their dependence on natural resources for their livelihoods, culture, […]

This research involves observing and evaluating sustainability experiments in the small business community, which will contribute to a database that will integrate knowledge from previous research created at the university. The web-based repository will highlight case studies of transformative sustainability entrepreneurship endeavors and supporting legal, political and governance arrangements. The research will focus on the […]

This project consists of archival work on the lecture notes taken by Winthrop Pickard Bell at Universität Göttingen in the beginning of the twentieth-century. Bell was a Canadian philosopher who taught at Harvard University in the 1920’s after completing his doctorate with Edmund Husserl, a prominent German philosopher, at Universität Göttingen. Bell took meticulous notes […]

Canada has an unique model called the private-sponsorship model where private citizens and organizations can come together and apply to sponsor a refugee. Canada has been quietly exporting this model to countries around the world who are adopting the private sponsorship model to address refugee issues in their countries such as Germany and the United […]

This project will use ethnographic and community-based participatory research methods to develop a cross-cultural, community-driven ethical model for caribou research, management, and conservation in and around La Ronge, SK. The project will contribute to caribou work already underway between the partner organization, Prince Albert Model Forest (PAMF), and Lac La Ronge Indian Band (LLRIB), e.g. […]

With some of the least affordable spaces in the country, Vancouver, parts of the Lower Mainland, Sea to Sky and the Victoria area are at risk of losing or compromising their non-profit and social enterprise organizations. This Internship, offered by the Social Purpose Real Estate Collaborative (SPRE) and Vancity Community Foundation, is intended to bolster […]

Depression is a debilitating mental disorder that affects people across many cultures. However, people from different cultures may display their depressive symptoms in different ways. For example, depressed people from one culture may display their symptoms through the inability to think or concentrate. People from another culture may show their depression through poor physical health […]

L’allongement de l’espérance de vie au Québec pose d’importants défis à la société. Au-delà des enjeux économiques que posent le financement des retraites, le coût de la dépendance augmente considérablement. L’une des causes de la perte d’autonomie des aînés est liée au déclin des facultés intellectuelles. Si les maladies neurodégénératives sont, en grande partie, responsables […]

North American Indigenous and Chinese/Taiwanese Indigenous peoples have long shared an intimate relationship with water. For them, water is not only a commodity or substance for physical survival, it is closely and deeply related with their spiritual lives as well. This research project aims to explore the subtle affinities between East Asian (specifically Sinophone) and […]

Members of Canada’s Muslim communities face unique mental health care needs as their racial and religious background informs identify and experience. Researchers, advocates and service providers are starting to understand the unique mental health needs of Muslim communities, but we are still learning about how the mental health care system can provide the most appropriate […]

Comme de nombreux outils numériques utilisant des techniques d’analyse de données et d’apprentissage automatique (machine learning), les agents conversationnels (chatbots) collectent et traitent une grande quantité de données sur leurs utilisateurs. Quand le type de conversation suscitée par le chatbot porte sur des enjeux de santé mentale, ces données sont d’autant plus personnelles et confidentielles. […]

Despite the existence of pockets of deep expertise, there is not broad R&D capacity and talent in the social impact sector. Contributing factors include program based funding mechanisms, limited talent influx and partnerships with other sectors, among others. The goal of this project is to explore different models to increase R&D capacity and supports for […]