Champions Hockey is finding challenges in managing the smooth coordination of program setup, registration, and scheduling while addressing potential conflicts in ice bookings and maintaining seamless operations. Leading on-ice hockey sessions and facilitating activities for participants of varying skill levels require adaptability and strong leadership skills. Balancing administrative tasks, such as email communications, scheduling, and […]

In continuation of the last Mitacs project, Boosting Performing Artists’ Careers for Recovery Post COVID, this proposal looks further at strategies of sustaining creative work long term for emerging performing artists in Regina in challenging economic times. Expected benefits to the non-profit partner organization include the ability to build administrative infrastructure to support creatives in […]

Avalanche Canada and Park Canada publish avalanche bulletins daily to provide backcountry users with information on avalanche hazard. Since 2010, Canadian bulletins follow the recently developed conceptual model of avalanche hazard (CMAH), which describes the key components of avalanche hazard and how to combine them into an overall assessment. However, the CMAH does not provide […]

In professional sports, sustained performance largely depends on having the best players healthy and free of injury. Player testing and monitoring has become a key area of development for many professional teams in order to track players’ health and performance. The purpose of this project is to build on the partner organization’s player monitoring program […]

L’objectif principal de ce projet consiste à mieux connaître le rôle du style de vie de la main-d’oeuvre dans l’attractivité des individus qui choisissent ce type d’emploi. Les entreprises de tourisme d’aventure et d’écotourisme située hors des grands centres urbains ayant de plus en plus de difficulté à attirer de la main-d’oeuvre, il apparaît pertinent […]

Internationally, physical activity levels among children and youth are declining, while sedentary behaviours are increasing, leading to the global rise in non-communicable disease. This project aims to contribute to childhood physical activity promotion in Canada and worldwide, and to the international diffusion of scientific knowledge concerning childhood physical activity though three actions: 1. the evaluation […]

Ecomuseums are primarily community-based endeavors that respond to local needs while concentrating on sustainability. They help guide and develop democratic projects that focus on connections to local history and heritage, which include local physical geographic features, natural resources, natural habitats and agricultural practices. This research concentrates on creating an educational program to be delivered on […]

This series of projects will provide coaches and sport scientists with a greater understanding of the relationship between training and performance. While there are several methods for monitoring how much and how hard athletes train, how these can be best used to predict future performance is still in question. The sports of rowing and middle-distance […]

Heritage information plays an essential role in the adequate planning and monitoring of conservation strategies. Digital tools have revolutionized the speed and the accuracy in recording heritage places. This pilot project addresses how to integrate information gathered through digital technology into coherent graphic record (floor plans, section, and elevations) and how to understand the relationship […]

Depuis quelques années, chercheurs et praticiens de l’enseignement musical ont démontré un intérêt grandissant pour ce que nous nommerons les «?approches pédagogiques innovantes?» en musique. Ces approches offrent une alternative à la pratique pédagogique traditionnelle en misant, notamment, sur le développement de la créativité musicale, le travail «?à l’oreille?», le développement d’une communauté de pratique, […]

The Galiano Conservation Association aims to educate the public about Rockfish Conservation areas, and monitor fisher compliance and rockfish populations, to enhance rockfish recovery around Galiano Island. Rockfish are a threatened and overfished group of fishes native to BC’s coast. Given that the underwater realm is toxic to humans, subtidal monitoring data is limited. However […]

Ce projet de recherche a pour but d’apporter une vision claire et des solutions sur les problématiques liées à la simulation de présence et télé présence de plusieurs acteurs dans un univers de réalité virtuelle (VR) afin d’augmenter le sentiment de présence physique et du fait, l’immersion virtuelle. De manière succincte, cette proposition permettra l’étude […]