The purpose of this research is to gain a greater understanding of current levels of nature connectedness and barriers to accessing local greenspace within the deprived area of Workington, England. Research Aims The aim of this piece of research would be to work closely with local organisations and community groups to assess existing levels of […]

The severity of future wildfires is expected to increase due to climate change, with societal and ecological consequences. My project aims to understand the drivers of the Sparks Lake fire that burned 95,980 hectares to the north of Kamloops (British Columbia, Canada) in 2021. First, I will quantify burn severity of the Sparks Lake fire […]

À l’ère des changements climatiques, les entreprises d’élevage font face à des défis importants. Afin d’aider ces entreprises à accroître leur résilience et adopter des pratiques agricole écoresponsable, il est essentiel de revoir les modèles agricoles. Le développement d’un sylvopastoral combinant l’implantation de haies agroforestières à une régie de paissance en rotation pourrait favoriser la […]

Agricultural expansion in northern boreal regions presents an opportunity to generate food security and self-sufficiency in the face of climate change. However, little is known about how conversion of boreal forest to agriculture affects soil arthropod communities, despite their essential role in sustaining crop productivity among many other soil functions essential to human well-being. This […]

Le projet demandé vise à accomplir un séjour de recherche en Israël dans l’objectif d’y rencontrer la professeure de linguistique et spécialiste de la polémique, Ruth Amossy. Ce stage permettra d’acquérir une expertise pour l’analyse d’un corpus polémique, par l’apprentissage de la méthode propre à Mme Amossy. Le projet permettra en ourte de nouer des […]

Perhaps the most basic object in the world of representation theory is the symmetric group, the group of all ways of rearranging a set of size n. Despite the simplicity of this object, it is still very rich, and its category of representations is a remarkable mixture of combinatorial accessibility, and exceptionally difficult questions. Famously, […]

In 1845, the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote “I look everywhere for grandmothers and see none”. Working-class women poets of the eighteenth-century have been ignored by scholars for over 200 years. My project aims to reconnect these poets with their ‘granddaughters’ of today. I will be working in an interdisciplinary way, contributing across multiple platforms […]

Detecting changes in a building using remote sensing images has been an essential research topic in Geographic Information System (GIS) and Remote Sensing (RS) and used for characterization and quantification of change detection on footprints of buildings or buildings’ rooftops. The purpose of the research project includes the choosing and testing RS and GIS methods […]

Ergonomic Work Analysis (EAW) includes analysis of demands, observations, and analysis of planned and executed tasks. The EAW requires the measurement of the loads to which workers are exposed through ergonomic tools and the construction of action plans to adapt the working condition in a way that respects the human being. Considering the Canadian Center […]

The placement project will investigate the use of machine learning for modelling and control of an offshore wind powered direct air capture (DAC) system. DAC remove carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere which is injected into deep-sea reservoirs and are a key negative emission technology, which are becoming increasingly vital as a climate change mitigation […]

Micro and minigrids supplied by solar and wind power are an important solution to remote access to electricity. This project is a feasibility study investigating adding a flow battolyser into a microgrid system. When installed in a micro/ minigrid, the flow battolyser supplies metered electricity and hydrogen gas to homes, small businesses, and community buildings […]

When lava enters the ocean, the molten rock spreads out and solidifies, creating a new shelf of land known as a lava delta. There have been a number of significant examples of such events over the last few years, notably at Kilauea, Hawaii in 2018, and Cumbre Vieja, La Palma in 2021. The physics of […]