Depuis la désignation patrimoniale du Vieux-Montréal en 1964, les stratégies de revitalisation et de relance du quartier ont stimulé le développement d’un quartier mixte, animé et habité. Divers usagers et diverses activités doivent ainsi cohabiter sur un territoire relativement restreint, ce qui n’est pas sans générer des nuisances, des tensions, voire des conflits d’usage. Ce […]

II a precedemment ete demontre qu’un employe desengage a des consequences nefastes pour les organisations, notamment en raison d’une baisse de productivite. Cette constatation a amene un interet grandissant pour !’engagement des employes et pour ce que les organisations peuvent faire pour les engager. Toutefois, afin d’evaluer l’efficacite des interventions mises en place par les […]

Last year, the world’s leading health researchers found toxic pollution to be the greatest cause of disease and premature death in the world today. However, while the findings acknowledge that deaths caused by toxins to be most prevalent among marginalized groups, there is no mention of socio-historical structures in producing these toxic patterns. Through this […]

Le projet vise à dresser un portrait régional et provincial de l’adaptation aux changements climatiques (ACC) au Québec et d’identifier le niveau de mobilisation et les acteurs actifs ou intéressés à l’ACC. L’étude se situe dans le cadre du programme Par notre propre énergie (2017-2020), mené par le Regroupement national des conseils régionaux de l’environnement […]

This innovative investigation into cross-border, online biliteracy curriculum is a timely response to Canada’s two major future challenge areas, namely, how to leverage emerging technologies to benefit Canadians and what knowledge to produce for Canada to thrive in an interconnected, evolving global landscape. Led by experienced researchers in the areas of cross-border literacy curriculum and […]

“Stories Without Borders” is a collaborative educational project between a Canadian and a Mexican research team, with the support of the Canadian NGO Education without Borders (EwB). The research problem addressed is: How can children’s stories written in English and other Indigenous languages for Indigenous children in Canada best be translated into Indigenous Mexican languages […]

Partant des concepts de droit à la ville (Lefebre, 1968) et de justice spatiale (Soja 2010), cette étude considère les espaces publics (Paquot, 2015) comme une ressource urbaine, indispensable à l’utilisation du transport en commun (TC). Les adolescentes sont confrontées à l’exclusion, en particulier dans les villes du Sud: les filles sont responsables des tâches […]

Research has shown that persons with disabilities have difficulty establishing relationships and becoming involved in their communities, which can generate barriers to generating and maintaining social capital. Microboards are small groups of people who have agreed to collaborate with an individual with a disability to form a person-centered ‘board’. Microboards have generated anecdotal attention for […]

I recently received a SSHRC for my MFA in Creative Writing thesis titled “Cold Dark Joy: Learning to Thrive in Winter.” This creative non-fiction book explores the possibility of thriving in cold, dark landscapes, particularly in circumpolar regions. To best research the possibility of cultural happiness and well-being during dark winters, I will study the […]

Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside is undergoing major changes and is the last major place in the downtown peninsula to be redeveloped. How can this change be inclusive of existing residents and community members? This project will look at the role of businesses in the area in creating social benefits for the community and value beyond financial […]

The ability to read carries important implications for overall self-esteem and independence, as reading is necessary to perform many daily tasks (making grocery lists, reading prescriptions, following recipes). Rehabilitation professionals provide training and support to adults and seniors who are born with visual impairments or who acquire it later in life due to age-related conditions. […]

With increasing involvement Artificial Intelligenct (AI) technology in our daily lives, we need to learn about factors that can facilitate people’s trust in and liking of an AI, which can promote better human-AI interactions and eventually help humans to benefit from the service that AI provides. Self-disclosing behaviours, or acts of revealing one’s personal information […]