L‘objectif de cette recherche qualitative est de comparer et synthétiser les éléments ayant eu une influence sur le recours/parcours à l’aide sociale et sur les facteurs favorisant – ou non – l’accès et l’intégration en emploi des bénéficiaires de l’aide social dit aptes au travail. Le caractère innovant de ce projet réside dans la prise […]

Prostate cancer (PCa) is the most frequently diagnosed cancer in Canadian men and the third deadliest. If the majority of PCa are well treated using first line treatments like surgery, radiation and/or androgen deprivation therapy (ADT), a proportion of cases (10%) progress to metastatic cancer. At cellular level, cancer cells can initiate alternative responses to […]

Irwin’s Industrial Safety is a leading provider of safety consulting, safety training, and safety operations management. Over the last 4 years, Irwin’s Safety has compiled data on project safety and efficiency over a wide scope of projects. Moving forward, Irwin’s Safety seeks research into how this data can best be analyzed, visualized, and used to […]

This project aims to provide evidence and research support to BGCBigs in the implementation of their Building an Evaluation Framework and Capacity for Sustainability project. BGCBigs recognizes that achieving their goal of ‘supporting our children and youth on the path to success’ depends upon an organization committed to evaluative thinking, learning and utilization of evidence […]

Community leadership development and training programs must respond to changing corporate and public perceptions. There has been a lack of research on community leadership within small urban settings, where the impact that training and development programs have may be high. Our objective is to describe how local businesses in a small urban setting understand community […]

The alignment of the dissertation and the CE in terms of preparing students as researchers in today’s environment or for innovative work outside the academy is in question. The purposes and structures of these basic PhD components have not changed significantly since the origin of the modern PhD, which was developed primarily as a vocational […]

Peu d’outils sont présentement disponibles pour éclairer les professionnels du droit au sujet de l’état du marché des services juridiques, les concurrents en place, les tendances, les stratégies de mise en marché et de fixation des prix, les besoins de la population en matière de services juridiques, etc. Ce projet consiste à effectuer une veille […]

La présente demande concerne le chantier de recherche sur les «Les pratiques juridiques controversées» : Une partie des coûts de la justice est attribuable à des pratiques situées aux limites de la déontologie professionnelle : rapport collusoire entre praticiens, multiplication des dépenses douteuses, honoraires abusifs, exploitation de l’ignorance des justiciables, engagement dans des procédures qui […]

The Great Lakes St Lawrence (GLSL) Basin is central to Canada’s economy and culture, and a primary water source. Several stressors are deteriorating these critical ecosystems. This proposed project aims to lay the foundations for efforts to improve coordination related to the restoration of the GLSL region. The proposed project consists of mapping stakeholders, issues, […]

The proposed research will take a look at how Non-profit organizations can use storytelling to affect the outcome of their social media campaigns. The intern will be taking a look at narrative driven social content, which is social media content whether videos, audio, infographics, images, etc., that are created to tell a story and its […]

Capturing the impact of program performance on adolescent outcomes is an important way to understand the ways in which a program has best provided its services for optimal outcome success. However, there is limited literature on valid measurement of program success among arts-based educational programs. The project will undertake an outcome evaluation, which focuses on […]

Canada is amid an opioid epidemic, with regional and federal governments declaring opioid use, overdose, and related harms a public health emergency. Drug-related overdose mortality in British Columbia reached a record high in 2016, with over 900 deaths. In response, novel overdose prevention interventions (OPI) are now being implemented, including: overdose prevention sites in which […]