The “local turn” of migration policies has been more pronounced since the “refugee crisis” of 2015. Its accompanying camps, emergency shelters, and buildings occupation have put cities under the microscope, underlying the multiple interactions between homelessness and forced migration, including precarious housing and hidden forms of homelessness. Several types of networks are engaged in tackling […]

CoDES est un projet de recherche mené dans la ville de Québec qui vise à mieux comprendre les quartiers dans lesquels grandissent les jeunes enfants. Nous nous intéressons aux caractéristiques de ces quartiers qui aident ou nuisent au développement de la naissance à 5 ans. Pour obtenir un meilleur portrait global de la situation, nous […]

Many skilled women workers are going through unemployment phase after Covid-19. There few are under employment. These skilled, and educated professionals are facing domestic work pressure, and economic challenges, where the secauses unhappiness in their life. This Covid-19have impacted badly to the life of IndoCanadians, particularly women as a vulnerable group. However, this research addresses […]

Tiresias is a client private solution to malware protection and threat intelligence. Tiresias allows a user to put all their incoming files in a cryptographically secure Data Chest locally. After sending the Data Chest to our cloud environment, our AI scans and infers if it is malicious without seeing the actual file content from the […]

The proposed doctoral research aims to use Igbo Hometown Associations in Nigeria as a context to explore identity-based associational groups that operate locally but with ties to transnational migration dynamics and their diaspora. Specifically, it will examine how these ties enable their acting as non-state governance actors that self-organize to provide public goods, despite weakness […]

Being physically active is associated with many health benefits. To help guide people on how much activity they need for optimal health, the Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology developed new Canadian Physical Activity Guidelines for all age groups. Specifically, this work will look at assessment, awareness, and uptake of the new guidelines as it relates […]

Social impact bonds (SIB) have the potential to fund proven social innovation projects that governments have to date, for a variety of reasons, been reticent to fund. Through a SIB, private investors fund innovative social intervention work that is carried out by a non-profit. If the non-profit achieves certain social outcomes previously agreed upon by […]

Dans un contexte d’essoufflement des démocraties représentatives, les institutions de participations (IP) citoyennes apparaissent comme des moyens concrets de revitaliser le lien entre citoyens et pouvoirs publics. Le programme de budgets participatifs (BP) est l’une des IP les plus diffusées au monde, implantée aujourd’hui dans plus de 40 pays et présente sur tous les continents. […]

En 2001, t‘Hart, Boin et Heyse anticipaient déjà la pluralisation des crises que vivent les firmes. À l‘heure actuelle, le public est plus que jamais sensible aux messages qu‘envoient les organisations à leurs commettants et la gestion des épisodes de crise est maintenant un enjeu permanent dans la stratégie d‘entreprise. À l‘ère de mondialisation, les […]

The proposed research project will study the past and present oral health care knowledge and experiences of Ukrainians who have arrived in Nova Scotia, Canada since February 2022, due to the ongoing war in Ukraine. This will include an exploration of perceptions and knowledge of oral health, experience navigating oral health care services in Ukraine […]

Between 1975 and 2018, 30% of rebel organizations active in civil wars kidnapped hostages. There is also significant variation in attacks across time and space, within and across civil wars. My project seeks to explain this variation and examines the logic, lethality, and efficacy of its usage in civil war. It is divided into three […]

Over the past decades, civil war onset has been a primary scholarly focus. Yet, most studies consider civil war onset to generally take the form of peripheral insurgencies. Based on recent advances in the literature (e.g., McLauchlin 2022; Siberdt 2022), we identify a distinct pathway to civil war, which takes the form of state disintegration […]