Despite the benefits associated with staying physically active and eating a healthy diet, men are less likely than women to engage in these behaviours. Healthy lifestyle programs that are offered in collaboration with professional sport teams have been found to engage men in being more active and eating healthier. HAT TRICK was designed to specifically […]

La qualité des eaux souterraines au Canada se dégrade et impacte la qualité des eaux de surface qui leur sont connectées. Étudier l’eau souterraine est complexe. La recherche universitaire a développé des méthodes efficaces pour comprendre d’où viennent l’eau et les pollutions et quels sont leurs parcours, mais elles ne sont presque jamais appliquées aux […]

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 […]

This project’s overarching goal is to spur cooperative enterprises to move into the collaborative economy. Even though the “collaborative economy” shares many values with cooperative enterprises, too few of them have entered the pace in Quebec and Canada, but also globally. This paradox puzzles Quebec’s cooperation and mutuality council (CQCM). They want to reverse this […]

En 2015, l’Assemblée générale des Nations Unies adoptait 17 Objectifs de développement durable pour l’horizon 2030. L’atteinte de ces objectifs nécessitant une grande collaboration entre tous les acteurs – gouvernements, organisations et société civile – les coopératives ont également été invitées à s’engager en ce sens. En effet, lors du Sommet international des coopératives 2016, […]

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 […]