This study will explore how the centralization of social services and those who use them impact the environment of Downtown Windsor. The goal of the project is to understand how the location of social services effects the movement of people who are using these services. Stakeholders, businesses, and residents will be surveyed in order to […]

Lorsque les activités d’intervention se terminent suite à un sinistre, la période de rétablissement pose des défis importants pour les individus et les organisations. Le « retour à la normale » soulève des questions de reconstruction, de soutien prolongé aux sinistrés, de compensations, d’assurances, etc. Il engendre aussi des activités d’apprentissage dans et entre les […]

Ce projet de recherche porte sur la littératie financière (LF) des jeunes Néobrunswickois, concept que l’Agence de la consommation en matière financière du Canada définit comme: «[…] le fait de disposer des connaissances, des compétences et de la confiance en soi nécessaires pour prendre des décisions financières responsables.» Or plusieurs études nous indiquent que bon […]

Slave labour continues to be used in business settings around the world and is often linked to society through the supply chains for consumer goods. Yet, the issue of slavery in modern society (“modern slavery”), despite its ties to business settings, has received very little attention in societies around the around. While countries such as […]

This project uses social cartography as its main methodological and collaborative tool to map practices that enable or hinder successful collaborations in spaces of socially engaged art between members of various communities in historic dissonance. These include artists from Indigenous and other racialized communities. More specifically, this project explores the potentials of post-representational uses of […]

This project aims to operationalize innovative methods for developing cost effective wetland inventories across Alberta by use of numerous sources of remote sensing data, namely light detection and ranging (LiDAR), synthetic aperture Radar (SAR), and optical imagery. The project will formalize a mapping specification, develop training and validation datasets (available in-kind from the academic supervisor […]

Canada has committed to combatting climate change. To do this, Canada must find ways to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the country’s most polluting sectors. Transportation accounts for roughly a quarter of the country’s total GHG emissions, and though electric vehicles have been identified as a promising strategy for passenger vehicles, a viable alternative […]

In the current functional and structural neuroimaging project, we aim to identify functional and structural changes that correlate with disease presence and its severity (staging) and that can serve as a basis for future development of PD neuroimaging biomarkers. To achieve this objective we will use our expertise in functional neuroimaging of the cervical spinal […]

Le projet vise à identifier les secteurs porteurs pour l’économie estrienne. Ainsi, maximiser les retombées économiques d’investissements futurs dans la région sera facilité par la réalisation de ce projet. De plus, des composantes additionnelles permettront, d’abord, de quantifier les besoins de main-d’oeuvre régionaux ainsi que l’offre de main-d’oeuvre, ce qui permettra aux entreprises d’élaborer des […]

En 2017, pour la première fois au Canada, les citoyens âgés de plus de 65 ans sont plus nombreux que les enfants. Il est prévu que, d’ici quinze ans, un canadien sur quatre aura plus de 65 ans. Ces statistiques sont plutôt éloquentes, et elles viennent confirmer ce qui est véhiculé dans les différents médias […]

Pacific northwestern southern resident killer whale population only encompasses 74 individuals and is considered endangered. Chinook salmon, the main food source of resident killer whales, is today disappearing from the North American western coast. Yet, it remains unclear to which extent food deprivation is affecting recovery of resident killer populations. The main aim of this […]

Vibrant coral reefs are amongst the world’s most diverse and economically important marine ecosystems, but are also imminently threatened by climate change and local threats, including fishing and pollution. Understanding how these threats impact coral reefs, and the capacity for reefs to recover after bleaching events is critically important. This project will focus on Kiritimati […]