Social connections, especially satisfying romantic relationships, are vital for health and well-being. Yet, couples are spending increasingly more time apart, limiting opportunities for connection and intimacy. However, engaging in shared novel activities (i.e. self-expanding activities) can help couples connect and maintain their relationship over time. Indeed, couples who experience more self-expanding opportunities in relationships feel […]

Social connections, especially satisfying romantic relationships, are vital for health and well-being. Yet, couples are spending increasingly more time apart, limiting opportunities for connection and intimacy. However, engaging in shared novel activities (i.e. self-expanding activities) can help couples connect and maintain their relationship over time. Indeed, couples who experience more self-expanding opportunities in relationships feel […]

La recherche que je mène dans le cadre de mes études doctorales en études urbaines a pour objectif principal de comprendre et analyser les actions entreprises par les femmes résidentes de favelas de Rio de Janeiro pour contrecarrer la violence urbaine ou en diminuer les effets. Celle-ci porte spécifiquement sur les femmes, puisque, de par […]

Public libraries have the potential to support communities in mitigating the challenges and capitalizing on the opportunities associated with population aging. In order to support public libraries in meeting the needs of Canada and Australia’s older adult population, this qualitative comparative study will investigate best practices and barriers to participation with regard to older adult […]

Natalie’s Mitacs Globalink research program contributes to a climate change challenge prioritized by two UN organizations: (1) the UN World Tourism Organization’s Tourism for Sustainable Development Goals and (2) UN COP24 Sports for Climate Action Framework. With it’s direct dependence on climate, the multi-billion dollar global ski industry is considered a climate change “canary in […]

This project aims to support the data collection of a mix-method study to be implemented by a team of 6 undergraduate students. The study investigates the epidemiology and the lived experience of sexually transmitted infections of socially vulnerable English, Spanish and French speakers, immigrants/refugees. It will be done by uncovering issues of sexual and reproductive […]

This project aims to support the data collection of a mix-method study to be implemented by a team of 6 undergraduate students. The study investigates the epidemiology and the lived experience of sexually transmitted infections of socially vulnerable English, Spanish and French speakers, immigrants/refugees. It will be done by uncovering issues of sexual and reproductive […]

Recent rapid increase in the number of Chinese international students with English as a second language (ESL) attending Canadian schools has led to the exploration of in-service ESL teachers’ teaching strategies towards these students. Working with View-Wide International Education Group and using multiple case studies, this study will articulate the nature and challenges of ESL […]

As a result of human impacts on the natural world, our societies may have to profoundly transform many of the systems that affect our everyday lives – especially our energy, food, and transportation systems. As these systems are complex and interconnected, it is difficult to foresee how they might behave as they change, and how […]

A multiple-systems theory of category learning proposes that an explicit, verbally-mediated system learns rule-defined (RD) categories categorization rules, and a procedural, nonverbal system learns new non-rule-defined (NRD) categories for which there is no easily verbalizable rule. Executive Function (EF) is a broad term that brings together cognitive processes like selective attention, inhibition, and reasoning, plays […]

Over the last few decades, the air transport industry in Sweden has been altered and deregulated in such a way that the industry is now completely fueled by competition. Indeed, airline pilots now face drastically different working conditions that are cause for concern due to the nature of these changes, and their resulting safety risks. […]

How urban residents perceive and value nature within our cities shapes how we manage it for current and future generations. Given the diversity of perspectives and beliefs brought to bear on an urban system, we can expect that not everyone will enjoy nature the same way, or for the same reasons. If democracy is our […]