This research project studies Turkish university professors who have spent significant periods of time living in the United States or Canada but have decided to move back to Turkey. I want to understand why these professors choose to move back to Turkey after spending so much time in North America, and what factors cause them […]

This project will fund Emily Diemert, a Wilfrid Laurier University undergraduate student, to collect research on the intersection between safer cities initiatives and social policies in Mexico City. Emily will be an exchange student at the Tecnológico de Monterrey, in Mexico City while also gaining experience as a researcher on data collection, coding and analysis […]

This project focuses on researching and developing an advanced coordination mechanism between our API layers and LLM infrastructure. The goal is to efficiently access and reason across both structured and unstructured data sources to improve customer’s decision-making processes. Success will be measured by the speed in which that data source can be identified, sourced, and […]

This research falls at the intersection of the “data, economy and society” and the “digitalization, security and democracy” core research areas. It aims to tackle the consequences of cross-border data flows on democracy and individual’s security, while underlining the economic potential of this data. The research also exists in continuation of CIGI’s two essay series […]

The current landscape of human resources faces significant challenges in streamlining job documentation and job evaluation processes, which are critical for consistent, efficient, and defensible compensation-related decisions. Laulima Consulting Inc., as the partner organization, aims to overcome this by developing an AI-powered tool that supports the end-to-end creation and evaluation of job descriptions. The core […]

These two internships (one English, one French) will contribute to an academic partnership with People for Education in order to develop a pan-Canadian survey of educational resources and opportunitiesl. The survey will fill a gap in comparable, interprovincial data on the connection between school context and educational resources / policy implementation at the school level, […]

New and emerging technologies – most notably lethal autonomous weapons and the weaponization of outer space – are not only transforming how warfare is or could be conducted in the future, but pose a profound threat to international peace and security. Indeed, the technological arms race has become a defining feature of the growing rivalry […]

The Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada (APF Canada) is seeking two Mitacs interns to support the organization in two of its ongoing research projects that are focused on leading-edge technologies: (1) advancing regional knowledge and cooperation on technology-related policy issues, including artificial intelligence (AI); and (2) investigating ‘emerging issues’ that will help define cooperation between […]

This community based participatory research project will seek to understand the motivational, capability, and opportunity factors that enable SMEs to hire people with disabilities, and to investigate what kinds of messaging strategies are effective in encouraging employers to develop their capacity for disability inclusive hiring. The project will be conducted in collaboration with the Canadian […]

Project Ploughshares internships on Emerging Military Technologies and Space Security Governance

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Existing democratic structures are fragile and insufficient to address the cascading crises of the coming years. Without inclusive opportunities for people to communicate their views in a deliberative way, both communities and policymakers are being held back from co-creating a desirable future for Canada, a need that the Cornerstone Indicator process is aiming to address. […]