The Economic Development Task Force is expanding their Investment Attraction Initiatives to ensure continued economic growth in the region. Despite the challenges that COVID-19 has created for Lennox and Addington County, there are many economic growth opportunities. A partnership with the Smith School of Business will enable the County of Lennox and Addington to grow […]

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused major disruptions to the job market. Employment services organisations, including Kingston Economic Development Corporation (our partner organisation), indicate that the growth of businesses and economic activity is seriously hampered by the inability to hire qualified employees. To alleviate the mismatch between demand and supply in the labour market, it is […]

The main objectives of this project will be to multiply the client’s international presence, brand, and revenue. I plan on doing this by developing a distributor strategy focusing on retention, growth, and optimization. If there is capacity, I also aim to help improve the client’s online presence through marketing functions like email campaigns, SEO, and […]

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused major disruptions to the job market. Employment services organisations, including Kingston Economic Development Corporation (our partner organisation), indicate that the growth of businesses and economic activity is seriously hampered by the inability to hire qualified employees. To alleviate the mismatch between demand and supply in the labour market, it is […]

“Etuaptmumk (Two-Eyed Seeing)” is a framework for bringing together different worldviews in search of mutual benefit. In partnership with the Saugeen Ojibway Nation (SON), this project is using an Etuaptmumk (Two-Eyed Seeing) approach to bridge Indigenous Ecological Knowledge (IEK) and Western science to inform locally relevant fisheries governance on Lake Huron. Using both knowledge systems, […]

This project explores the history of bird sound recording in Canada and the USA, with a specific focus on the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology at Cornell University, New York, which holds the world’s largest bird sound archive. I will focus on three case study recordings: Arthur A Allen and Peter Paul Kellogg’s 1935 Ivory-Billed Woodpecker […]

Qubit Systems designs and builds instrumentation for research and teaching in the biological sciences. Founded 25 years ago, the company sells equipment to universities, research institutes and commercial entities worldwide. Products are used across the entire spectrum of the biological sciences including bioreactors to cultivate algae and bacteria; respirometers to monitor the metabolic activity of […]

This research project involves developing strategies and actionable recommendations to support the partner organization in transitioning its client base. As part of its long-term growth strategy, the company aims to work with medium and large enterprises and organizations.

Project involves data gathering and collection, analysis and subsequently using the results to devise an appropriate business model to sustain and scale up a new digital technology-smart phone enabled visual inspection with acetic acid (SEVIA). This technology was developed for the purpose of preventive screening of cervical cancer in women in low resource settings.

Our goal is to create an environment for the robots to participate in a cooperative situation and collaborate with other robots and human on cooperating task. Games like Hanabi and Block Stacking problems are good examples of goal-oriented and cooperation focused problem-solving tasks that will lead us to implement an algorithm that can be applied […]

The proposed research is a study to test the effectiveness of a health promotion campaign to increase physical activity delivered via WhatsApp to Mexican adolescents. We believe that adolescents who receive three weekly PA promotion messages via WhatsApp will increase their physical activity. Youth aged 15-17 will be recruited from three regional high schools. Changes […]

In my project, I aim to shed light on how the construction of modern nation state in Iran resulted in the environmental marginalization of the indigenous population across the country. The modern state in Iran, I contend, is a product of annexation and plundering of the resources and lands of indigenous populations and minority groups […]