Exploring the Impacts of Music Therapy with People Receiving Palliative Care in Rural NS

Music Therapy (MT) has the potential to support health and well-being of people with incurable diseases and limited life expectancy. Yet, it is a relatively underused service in Canada. There is a need for non-invasive and non-pharmacological treatment options in Palliative Care because such treatments can sometimes further exacerbate illness (e.g., drug interactions). Research has […]

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Black Swan Theory and Applications

This research is aimed at contributing to a larger research initiative, entitled “Rethinking the Foundations of Economics and Finance” that is principally being undertaken by Professor Robert F. Owen at the University of Toronto. The scientific context of the project lies within the intersection of economics, behavioral science, and complexity theory. It aims to integrate […]

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Show and Tell: The effects of seeing, hearing and perceiving central bank messages

The proposed project aims to examine how the non-verbal communication of central bank policymakers, as well as how the media interprets and disseminates this communication, impact financial markets and public opinion. Focusing on communications from the Federal Reserve and Bank of Canada, the research will explore how various groups, including traders and journalists, interpret and […]

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Negotiating Childhood and Neighbourhood Environments in Kunming, China: A multi-generational study

This project will examine how the ways in which children perceive, experience, and relate to their neighbourhood environments have changed over three generations in Kunming, China. This project represents part of a larger study: the Negotiating Childhood Around the Pacific-Rim Project. The researchers will recruit intergenerational families to participate in the research together, with at […]

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Political ecology of mining: the linkage between resource governance and environmental injustice

With the increasing global demand for minerals and metals, environmental and social harms caused by extractive industries will worsen unless the sector is paid careful attention to. Resource-use decisions are shaped by political economy forces that often lead to degradation of the local environment. The sector has also threatened the survival of marginalised communities and […]

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Toronto Centre of Learning and Development Business Strategy Internship

This project, through the development of designs for the Toronto Centre of Learning and Development, aims to create products as well as educational tools. The specific product designs developed during this period can act as a launch point for social enterprise that could be taken direct to market, or used as a foundation to further […]

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Haida Tides: Expanding Indigenous-led cultural knowledge sharing through ecotourism

Haida Tide Cultural Tours is an Indigenous-owned and operated ecotourism company based in Masset, BC, Canada. This project aims to upgrade operations and strengthen the overall business infrastructure of Haida Tide through a two pronged approach of first upscaling business operations Haida Tide and second providing training opportunities for both our own staff and other […]

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Processus d’implantation d’AToM

Nous effectuerons l’implantation d’une plateforme de description archivistique en ligne nommée AToM . Ce projet enclenchera une transition qui obligera l’organisme à développer de nouvelles procédures de traitement de l’information, allant de l’acquisition de documents jusqu’à leur diffusion. Le projet nous offrira l’occasion d’élaborer et d’instaurer des stratégies visant à traiter l’information de manière conforme […]

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L’accès à la nationalité au Canada, en France et en Allemagne

Le projet à trait à la réalisation d’une étude comparative des droits canadien, français et allemand au sujet de l’accès à la nationalité. Elle examinera les conditions matérielles d’accès à la nationalité et les questions d’ordre formel tels que les procédures de naturalisation, le pouvoir d’appréciation de l’administration dans l’octroi de la nationalisation et les […]

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Illégalismes et production urbaine aux Philippines

Le projet de doctorat porte sur les liens entre illégalité et développement urbain aux Philippines. De manière à mener le terrain adéquatement aux Philippines (à l’hiver 2025), une session de recherche à Turin en Italie sera entreprise durant l’automne 2024. Cette session a pour but de me former aux sujets reliant illégalité et ville que […]

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