An examination of post-compulsory education for migrant children in urban China

Migrant workers are an important source of labor, becoming the engine of rapid development in urban areas in China. Despite the fact they have made a significant contribution to China’s economic prosperity, they and their children have limited access to social welfares in the host cities due to their lack of local urban hukou (household […]

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War remote from physical contact: the ideology, form and strategy in Chinese and Japanese visual propaganda during WWII

During WWII, unlike radio programming, electronic visual media were not widely popular in Chinese and Japanese citizens’ personal lives. However, visual print media provided sources from which both government and civilian organizations could develop effective platforms for publicity and propaganda. In this project, I would visit Japan and China to retrieve war period visual media […]

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The Feminist Buddha: Revisiting the Role of Gender within Buddhist Communities in Sichuan Province, China

This project will be researching gender inequality in Buddhist communities within Sichuan province, China. I will be conducting interviews with both monastic and lay practitioners to get firsthand accounts of the role of gender in Buddhist institutions. Previous scholarly work concludes there is significant gender inequality within Buddhist institutions. This project will revisit the issue […]

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Ongoing Development of Energy-Economy Climate Policy Models

The overall objective for this project is to support the research of two master’s students who would help advance the methods for modelling energy-climate policies, a field in which EMRG in the School of Resource and Environmental Management at SFU is one of the leading research units in the country and in which Navius Research […]

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Étude de récits de procès durant la république de Weimar

Le projet de recherche entrepris à l’Université de Leipzig servira à identifier des feuilletons, courts textes de la presse écrite des années 1920-1930 en Europe centrale, traitant de procès. Ces textes connaissaient un vif succès à cette époque particulièrement dû à l’effervescence des quotidiens mais aussi dû à la méthode d’écriture propre à ce genre. […]

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EU Institutions Promoting High-Skilled Migration for Innovation & Growth

This project seeks to understand the role different European Union (EU) institutions play in the global competition for highly-skilled migrant professionals. While EU member states still retain sovereignty over the long-term admission of third country nationals, the EU Commission, Council and Parliament have started to propose and push policy initiatives related to high-skilled migration. Triggered […]

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L’acceptabilité sociale et les instances démocratiques intermédiaires

Le projet portera sur la thématique de l’acceptabilité sociale, c’est à dire, l’opinion qu’a la population d’un projet ou une décision (Gendron, 2014). Il vise à analyser les dynamiques sociales entourant une controverse qui sera débattue devant la Commission Nationale du Débat Public, en France entre les mois de mai et juillet 2019. La CNDP […]

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The Role of Values and Beliefs in Dried Fish Production: A Focus on the Well-Being of Producers in the Indian Sundarbans

Values and beliefs within social-ecological systems (SES) are a fundamental aspect of perception and cognition, which have largely been neglected within the social-ecological systems literature. The purpose of this research is to understand the values and beliefs of dried fish producers and how they contribute to the producers’ well-being in Sundarbans region, West Bengal, India. […]

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Impact of Visiting Rules Changes on Australia’s Immigration Detention Centres

In January 2018 the Australian Department of Home Affairs introduced several changes to the visiting rules for immigration detention centeres on Australia’s mainland. These changes significantly restricted access to refugees detained in such facilities. Throughout 2018 Dr. Nethery from Deakin University in Australia conducted a series of interviews with visitors to such immigration detention centres […]

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Student data and learning analytics: Anonymity, confidentiality, privacy

Feedback from students is considered essential to continuous improvement in teaching at all levels, particularly in learner-centered education. This project looks at universities’ privacy and confidentiality policies and frameworks on the use of student feedback data, to inform decisions on program/curriculum enhancements and resource allocations for student success. Data can be from monitoring what students […]

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Shandong Migrants in Harbin During the 1940s

Manchuria, or Northeast China, was a migrant society in which the majority of the population came from Shandong and Hebei during the late 19th century and the first half of the 20th century. However, Manchuria’s migration history in the period of Manchukuo, a puppet state controlled by Imperial Japan from 1932 to 1945, is a […]

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