Disability arts is a field of artistic practice and cultural production that is revolutionizing approaches to accessibility and inclusion and providing a critical intervention into Canada’s arts and culture sector. I position this field as an ecology made up of different participants, resources, processes, materials, and networks. My research recognizes an urgent need for disability […]

Vision is the most important sense to execute sport skills. Research have shown that good visual performance is related to good batting performance in baseball and, that training protocols representing baseball game settings help with the improvement of batting skills. This study purposes to understand the relation between visual and batting performance and investigate the […]

Quantitative performance analysis of boxing bouts is presently limited by the time it takes to manually process video footage, as well as the expertise that is required. We propose to develop an automatic performance analysis and action classification system for boxing sparring and competition bouts that is based on a computer vision action recognition pipeline. […]

Snowshoers and winter hikers have received little attention from academic research. As a growing community of backcountry users, it is not well understood to what extent they travel in avalanche terrain, what level of avalanche safety training they possess, and where they get their information for undertaking winter backcountry trips. This study addresses these concerns […]

The Fluvarium is a public environmental education center which works with communities in Newfoundland and Labrador to create awareness, educate, and facilitate innovation with regards to the natural environment. The organisation was established in 1985 with a focus on the protection and conservation of water resources, and since then, it has been engaged with local […]

Une étude transversale et une étude longitudinale seront réalisées pour créer des profils de performance chez les meilleurs athlètes de baseball de la province. Ces profils basés sur des données anthropométriques, physiques et psycho-physiques permettront de distinguer les athlètes les plus talentueux et d’aider à leur sélection dans le programme d’excellence de l’Académie de Baseball […]

The Hope on the Horizon Tour is set to launch in the spring of 2023, and events/work focused on the True Sport initiative are continuing. Thus, the internship focuses on understanding and evaluating the depth of the knowledge transfer taking place throughout these initiatives – especially the Hope on the Horizon Tour. This research aims […]

This internship follows a four-year collaboration of a group of Inuit artists with settler Canadian artist and Ph.D. candidate Micky Renders, who are raising awareness about the historical, present and imagined future of ‘wastes’ in Panniqtuuq, Nunavut. This internship will support the critical curation of socially-engaged visual art and stories on the theme of Arctic […]

The intern will be working with Project Watershed to understand the use of the three sites along the Courtenay River by juvenile salmonids, and whether one site appears to be better used by the juvenile salmonids or not. This work will help inform the partner organization whether their previous salmon habitat restoration activities along the […]

In 2007, ParticipACTION was relaunched in Canada with the goal of inspiring and supporting active living and sport participation for Canadians. The focus of ParticipACTION is on social marketing initiatives The objective of the proposed internship is to take advantage of data collected through internal evaluations commissioned by ParticipACTION of two national campaigns – Teen […]

The Halifax Memory Maps Project creates large scale digital maps of Halifax, Nova Scotia, for the purpose of exploring and better managing built heritage assets. Halifax, as one of Canada’s oldest cities, has one of the most extensive and significant collections of old buildings in the country. However, no inventory of these buildings exists. The […]

The proposed research project will assess the efficacy and effectiveness of a generalized Sports Vision Training (SVT) program on varsity athletes through comparing the effects of a 10-week program to a 5-week program. The SVT program consists of training methods aimed at improving visual perception and efficiency of visual processing. Varsity athletes of hockey, basketball, […]