Ce stage de recherche vise le développement et le transfert de connaissances dans les domaines de la gestion de la diversité et l’inclusivité dans les organisations. Plus spécifiquement, le stage permettra d’appuyer une société d’État québécoise dans la mise en place de deux nouvelles initiatives ayant pour but de valoriser la diversité et l’inclusivité. Les […]

Le domaine des accords de libre-échange subit des chocs majeurs depuis quelques mois. Alors qu’on arrivait à peine à comprendre les implications juridiques du nouveau phénomène de prolifération des accords de libre-échanges et de redéfinition de ceux-ci, la donne change à nouveau. Par exemple, en juin 2016, les Britanniques se sont exprimés en faveur d’une […]

Teachers are being challenged to integrate Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM) across the curriculum more frequently and effectively. Many teachers are challenged with these aspects for several reasons. In particular, subject areas are still isolated in British Columbia (BC), and only a few schools truly have STEM/STEAM programs. Secondly, STEM is more often […]

PRISM-ACCESS Open Minds is a health services research project that leverages online technologies. “PRISM” stands for: Pathway for Rapid, Internet-based, Self-referral to Mental health services for youth. The objective of PRISM-AOM is to develop, implement, and evaluate an online self-referral pathway to facilitate rapid and direct access to mental health services for youth. The pathway […]

The goal of the project is to gain insight into individuals’ reactions to an artificial intelligence (AI) product currently in development at Kiite. The product is designed to fulfill some of the role responsibilities typically occupied by a manager. Trust is an important factor in both leader-employee relationships and in user experiences with AI-based systems. […]

Journalism in Canada and elsewhere has been disrupted by changes in technology, in markets, and in people’s habits of news consumption. This disruption has been bad for business, and over one-third of journalists have in Canada lost their jobs in the last decade. It’s also been bad for public knowledge, as seen by the rise […]

An organization’s greatest strength are employees who live their values, who feel valued, and whose ideas are valuable to the continued success of their workplace. On an individual level, the alignment of personal values with the work undertaken is essential to achieve personal and professional potential as well as job satisfaction and general well-being. In […]

Le projet de recherche a pour objectif d’identifier les composants des jeux numériques (les mécaniques de jeux et d’apprentissage) et les mettre en lien avec les stratégies d’apprentissage les plus efficaces pour faire apprendre la grammaire et l’orthographe du français langue d’enseignement aux apprenants du primaire et secondaire dans les écoles québécoises. Tout ceci dans […]

Youths spend over $141 billion annually. Yet, these same youth often demonstrate extremely poor understanding of healthy financial habits such as emergency funds and budgeting. The proposed project seeks to tackle two main questions through the Dojo financial literacy learning application. First, what principles/techniques have been shown to positively impact financial literacy (e.g., interactive games, […]

Studies on the personality-performance relationship have traditionally focused on relating stable individual differences in behaviour, thought, and emotion (i.e., personality traits) to stable individual differences in performance. Whereas this approach has undoubtedly advanced our understanding of the relationship between personality and performance, it is at odds with a recent call in the literature to conceptualize […]

Recent immigrants and refugees to Canada bring knowledge and skills that strengthen the economies, sociocultural aspects, and food systems of their new communities. However, challenges associated with being a newcomer, including access to culturally preferred foods compounds food insecurity – inadequate or insecure access to food due to financial constraints – experienced by new immigrants. […]

The intent of this project is to demonstrate the GHG and electricity use savings of a range of low carbon heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) technologies in the multi-unit residential building (MURB) sector. Technologies to be studied include: • ductless mini-split air source heat pumps (ASHP) • gas absorption heat pumps • smart thermostats […]