Au Québec, seulement 64% des adolescents obtiennent leur diplôme d’études secondaires. Le décrochage scolaire entraîne des conséquences importantes chez le jeune et la société. Puisque ce phénomène est le résultat de difficultés personnelles, mais aussi familiales, scolaires et sociales, y répondre nécessite une approche coordonnée. Ce projet de recherche permettra de mesurer l’impact d’une intervention […]

The research proposed here will explore core issues, risks, and limitations to direct the design and development of a ‘youth operating system’ (YOS) centred on providing a safe, secure, privacy-preserving, and inclusive multi-featured online environment for youth. Any project that engages youth requires substantive policies, terms and conditions, and platform functionality that ensure its Users […]

British Columbia (BC) supports world-renowned recreational fisheries for steelhead, which are prized by national and international anglers. In recent decades, the prosperity of these fisheries has been challenged by widespread declines in many of the stocks in southern BC, many of which are of conservation concern. While there is no commercial fishery for this species, […]

MHRC is conducting ongoing polling of Canadians to assess the short- and long-term effect of COVID-19 on mental health. We require additional support to expand our capacity to analyze the datasets we are creating. Our poll is extensive including a number of markers of mental health along with an array of demographic controls. While we […]

Canada’s Private Sponsorship of Refugees (PSR) program has gained a lot of international attention from countries around the world. Since the program’s inception, emerging literature has appropriately captured the increasing shift from the ‘welcoming the stranger’ model to ‘kin-linked’ based sponsorships. Today, linked-sponsorships make up the majority or private sponsorships. Further, in the Fall of […]

Création d’un indice socio-économique pour la région des Laurentides afin de soutenir les décideurs et les entreprises dans leur choix d’affaires. Pour projet Indice économique-Innovation : L’indicateur économique/innovation des Laurentides qui sera créé, s’appuiera notamment sur des travaux du Conseil de l’Innovation, et vise à mesurer certains paramètres des entreprises des Laurentides afin de mieux […]

The current internship is an extension of an ongoing project (application ref. IT24703) which implies the advanced deep learning-based approaches to diagnose the simultaneous power transformers’ faults based on a time-series dataset. The power transformers were selected as the candidate assets in the previous project. They are pieces of essential equipment for electricity transmission and […]

This project extends my internship with the organization that began in May (another 4 month internship). My internship mandate from the start has been to support SeeChange in developing a DEI strategy based on the “best” practices in the literature. However, I have learned that there is mounting evidence proving that many DEI initiatives being […]

Non-profit organizations play an increasingly important role in rural regions. Yet, these organizations are chronically lacking in capacity, including being both understaffed and underfinanced, as well as having high turnover rates and loss of institutional memory as a result. This research project aims to explore how non-profit organizations and charities in rural communities deliver their […]

This program will investigate the role disease plays in salmon declines and the risks posed by open-net salmon farming to wild Pacific salmon. First, our ongoing partnership with the Broughton Archipelago Transition Initiative (BATI) will monitor salmon-farm impacts, serving as a testing ground for monitoring technologies to support Indigenous self-determination. Second, we will expand our […]

University student-athletes are susceptible to anxiety, depression and suicidal ideation. Academic institutions need to support athletes by promoting positive mental health, reducing stigma and providing resources. This project will explore if integrating the Talk Today program positively effects student-athletes’ attitudes towards help-seeking and help-seeking behaviours. Originally launched by CMHA Ontario Division in partnership with the […]

Au Canada, la majorité des femmes déclare ressentir de l’insécurité dans l’espace public (Perreault, 2017). Leurs peurs découlent notamment des violences couramment appelées « harcèlement de rue » (Lieber, 2008). En effet, on estime qu’une femme sur trois en moyenne a fait l’expérience de violences commises dans l’espace public dans la dernière année (Cotter et […]