The meaningful issues that are deeply-rooted in the Downtown East Toronto include poverty, homelessness, housing, community safety, mental health, substance use and the drug poisoning crisis. Challenges accessing formal systems for support and resources results from experiences with overlapping systems of exclusion and intersecting points of oppressions like stigma, racism or gender. The main question […]

Vancouver non-profit 221A is interested in using decentralized ledger technology (DLT) to offer secure, reliable, context preserving, cost-efficient, and carbon-neutral permanent storage services for digital cultural work. This research project will identify a storage solution for 221A that will preserve digital assets in the long term. Final outputs include a whitepaper and presentation deck featuring […]

Book subscription box strategic plan for BC publishers. Developing a comprehensive strategy for Books BC (The Association of Book Publishers of British Columbia) to launch a book subscription box for their members. This plan will include: Surveying key stakeholders; Conducting a competitive landscape analysis of other book subscription boxes or like-minded programs; Developing a curation […]

??Judge and Associates currently face challenges in managing contracts efficiently within their real estate operations. The manual process of contract management using paper documents and spreadsheets is labor-intensive and prone to errors. There is a need for automation to streamline the contract lifecycle from creation to renewal while ensuring compliance and accuracy. This project aims […]

This research project centers on developing the Functional Impairment Rating Scale (FIRS), a new tool to better assess how people with neurological and mental health disorders can complete everyday tasks. Traditional assessment methods often rely on patients’ descriptions of their abilities or clinicians observations, which can miss important details. The FIRS aims to address this […]

The current project aims to look at Indigenous women’s experiences seeking help for intimate partner violence (IPV) in crisis and second-stage women’s shelters. Resolve’s previous study demonstrates that rural women, including rural Indigenous women, experience a lack and a shortage of IPV-related services (Kardashevskaya et al., 2022). In addition, services may not be culturally safe […]

Jusqu’à 75% des femmes victimes de violence conjugale (VVC) de nature physique auraient subi un traumatisme cérébral (TCC). La plupart d’entre elles ne sont ni diagnostiquées ni traitées, mais doivent pourtant vivre avec les effets de ces blessures au cerveau, qui peuvent affecter leur autonomie, leur capacité à maintenir un emploi ou s’occuper de leurs […]

This project will support Propel Impact in engaging and building relationships with organizations advancing impact investing and impact measurement in Newfoundland and Labrador.

This project focuses on identifying and developing methods of estimating the Green house Gas (GHG)- emissions related benefits of bicycle infrastructure (such as, painted bike lanes, protected bike lanes, multi-use trails). GHG-emissions estimation methods that consider both the “benefits” and “costs” related to active transportation infrastructure is extremely rare, and as a result, there is […]

This project has two main goals: 1- to create SCI’s Strategic and Business plans, and Operational policies, and white papers to distribute widely, establishing “best practices” to foster EDIARD at our foundations and in the music industry more broadly. 2 – to research and produce music and cultural knowledge documenting and celebrating diverse communities, while […]

La consommation d’énergie résidentielle est responsable d’une part considérable des émissions de gaz à effet de serre (GES) des ménages. La majeure partie de cette consommation provient de sources d’énergies fossiles. Une transition rapide et profonde de la consommation des énergies fossiles vers des énergies renouvelables et de l’adoption des technologies facilitatrices peut contribuer de […]

My doctoral research aims to understand the emerging contentions on common good and citizenship in Turkey as an implication of Turkey’s adoption of free market mechanisms in energy production. In my research, I analyze the different legal (courts), material (public participation meetings) and conceptual (posing livelihoods as an alternative to private property) sites these contentions […]