Le projet s’intéresse à l’urbanisation des petites et moyennes villes et le rôle potentiel qu’elles pourraient jouer dans le développement régional au Vietnam. La zone d’étude se trouve dans la province de Lào Cai dans les montagnes du nord-est, sur la frontière avec la Chine, où habitent des centaines de milliers de personnes dont 60 […]

In Hanoi (popn. 6.5 million), the capital city of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, the majority of vendors are rural to urban migrants, often women, who lack access to more durable livelihoods due to limited formal education, financial capital or social networks, who are now being pushed off their household land by the state’s development […]

For the purpose of this research, I will be going Northern India to the Punjab state in order to study the way in which water is and the perceptions by local communities to these strategies. The rationale for Northern India is based on the dynamic changes to how water is accessed in the region. Water […]

During my 12-week stay in Mexico City I aim to obtain and analyze archival material pertinent to the exhibition Cuba: Imagen y Posibilidad, a large Cuban photographic exhibition viewed by three million visitors to Mexico City’s Galerias Abiertas de las Rejas de Chapultepec during 2009. This exhibition is central to my doctoral research, as it […]

The objective of this project is to review the program structure, program delivery and client satisfaction for 10 Head Start early childhood education centres operating in Ottawa, ON. Through a mixed-methods approach that combines interviews, surveys, and drawing activities with children we will gain insights on the strengths and challenges experienced by families, children and […]

Agricultural production and trade are central to Chinese economic development and the livelihoods of millions of people throughout the country. In China’s southwest Yunnan province, cardamom is an important cash crop that many rural communities cultivate and trade to make an income. This research project will focus on the current cardamom cultivation practices and trade […]

Agricultural production is a primary contributor to some of the key environmental issues of our time: climate change, biodiversity loss, and the degradation of land and water. At the same time, agriculture is remains inextricably linked to the livelihoods of millions of smallholder farmers. To address these interconnected social and environmental issues, the Brazilian government’s […]

Sikkim has preserved quite unique cultural artifacts of Tibetan Buddhism, and among those the most renowned is the thangka paintings. Through this project I would attempt to understand the cultural phenomenon of thangka paintings, how it has transformed in recent times. Thangka paintings portray the cosmology of Tibetan Buddhism, and it has captured the popular […]

The question of post-secularism – that is, the status of the religious experience within modern inviduals and modern society – is a prevalent one in contemporary philosophical discussion. In this project, I consider the insight of 20th century French philosopher Michel Foucault on this subject, in “L’Herméneutique du Sujet”, a recently published manuscript of Foucault’s […]

network of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs). My research will include case studies on two Mexican MPAs to examine what forms of impact assessment, monitoring, and management are taking place, as well as to investigate the perceived effectiveness of these methods by relevant community stakeholders. Using two MPA sites will allow me to compare how social […]

Le territoire du delta du fleuve Rouge est constamment façonné par l’eau; on y construit des digues pour se protéger en cas d’inondations depuis plus d’un millénaire. À Hanoï, on creuse plus profondément les lacs existants et on les remblaye afin qu’ils puissent recueillir les eaux pluviales lors de forts orages. Le paysage des lacs […]

Le but du projet sera de documenter de façon empirique les effets du jeu Classcraft sur le climat de classe. Nous adhérons à l’idée que ce jeu puisse être intégré en classe en tant que TIC pour favoriser un climat de classe positif et une ambiance propice aux apprentissages, en raison des caractéristiques spécifiques de […]