L’Université de Moncton, seule université francophone du Nouveau-Brunswick, est située dans un milieu à forte majorité anglophone. L’état des connaissances sur les déterminants de la réussite universitaire chez cette population n’est que parcellaire et peu discriminant. Comme le souligne Landry (2014), les différents groupes populationnels du Nouveau-Brunswick constituent un microcosme du pays et sont en […]

The current wellbeing crisis in Canada is magnified in rural areas. Also, rural economies are negatively affected by lack of suitable youth lifeskill training. Rural communities lack financial capital to address these issues on their own. 4-H has been building rural youth skill for over 100 years, offering a variety of options, including physical activities […]

Ottawa has a ten-year goal to end homelessness. Many people feel this is possible using Housing First strategies which help people access housing immediately, then address problems of addiction, poverty and mental illness which compromised past housing. However, youth homelessness is different than adult homelessness. It has youth-specific causes and higher stakes; the less time […]

An oral history of the St. George-Grosvenor-Piccadilly neighbourhood will be conducted. Research themes include an understanding of how institutions and notable structures shaped the neighbourhood, and the role played by sites of social interaction, and the role played by the neighbourhood’s rural character It is hoped that conducting oral interviews will elicit memories of buildings, […]

Little attention has been paid to the ways in which standardized indices on youth wellbeing capture the multifaceted and complex environments of youth. Thus, the proposed project seeks to fill existing gaps by gathering information on all existing youth wellbeing indices. This project will identify how measures of wellbeing are derived from factors that make […]

L’équipe de recherche de l’institut universitaire de première ligne en santé et services sociaux travaille en partenariat avec divers milieux de pratique afin de favoriser les innovations sociales et d’améliorer la qualité des services prodigués par le système de santé et des services sociaux. Dans cet intérêt, nous avons développé un outil d’intervention et d’évaluation […]

This project will create a timeline that traces the development of Canada though moments that are significant in Indigenous peoples’ relationship with non-Indigenous Canadians. From information available through historical archives and sources, the intern will identify key moments in Canada’s history that have shaped relations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people such as the establishment of […]

En France, le protestantisme historique s’est toujours placé en figure de proue sur les questions de laïcité et de séparation entre l’Église et l’État et sa pensée rationnelle est en harmonie avec les principes de sécularisation, d’école laïque et de médecine laïque. Une paroisse fait toutefois exception en offrant des soins de santé et de […]

In this project, we will use computerized games to teach second language material to adults. We will use neuroimaging and eye-tracking (a measurement of a person’s eye movements, which can provide information about reading and the processing of language). Adult learners will complete a 5-day game-based second language-training program. Their brain activity and eye movements […]

This project involves the evaluation of existing youth media programs designed and delivered by the Access to Media Education Socieity. The intern will identify gaps and areas for growth within these programs, as well as development of a range of new outreach workshops and materials. The data generated by this project will direct and guide […]

The central goal of this research project is to broaden measurement of school performance across Canada by developing, collecting, and measuring data on six performance indicators as follows: academic achievement, physical health, social-emotional development, creativity, citizenship, and school climate. Having developed competencies in these areas during phase one of the project, the current phase aims […]

Hundreds of thousands of endemically poor children are in need of quality prostheses. Current manual processes of prosthetic production are labour-intensive and slow. Moreover, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates a shortfall of 40,000 trained prosthetic technicians in low/middle income countries. Without the enhanced mobility provided by prosthetics, these children suffer from a dramatically reduced […]