That the COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound impact on housing is well recognized, however the impacts on students’ housing situations in particular is not well understood. These impacts may differ from those affecting other populations due to students’ housing and employment precarity, and as their housing needs have shifted as a result of the […]

Prominent Canadian philanthropic foundations are instituting significant reforms in grantmaking policy and practice in order to meet the needs of socially and economically marginalized communities. However, the sector has largely ignored the social and economic issues faced by one growing subset of the population: senior citizens. This absence of aging as a lens through which […]

Health and safety are key concerns during the current public health crisis to individuals who rely on public transit. To lessen the risk of those individuals, the research aims to develop an information-based control strategy using real-time travel information as a meaningful non-pharmaceutical intervention strategy in the public transportation sector. To achieve this goal, the […]

The purpose of this project is to analyze the role of Argentine rural social movements in facing the advancement of right-wing conservative forces and ‘regressive populism,’ and in the establishment of a new hegemonic formation that can deepen democracy instead. It aims to analyze these movements’ socioeconomic, political, and cultural practices and their strategies for […]

Le vaste mouvement de massification des universités et d’internationalisation du recrutement de leurs publics fait, de nos jours, des mondes étudiants des communautés marquées par le pluralisme ethnoculturel. Cette recomposition interne s’établit, en outre, dans un contexte marqué par une polarisation des sociétés fondée sur l’identité culturelle. Cette configuration historique particulière favorise potentiellement chez les […]

Mon projet de stage de recherche à l’étranger en collaboration avec l’Université Jean-Moulin Lyon 3 sera l’occasion d’approfondir les enjeux éthiques qui concernent la philanthropie et l’engagement social dans les sociétés démocratiques et de prendre part à un projet d’envergure sur la démocratie. En plus d’assister à des cours et des séminaires sur place, je […]

The Climate, Land, Energy and Water systems (CLEWs) model allows for representation of the Nexus interactions between different sectors. Applied in Sustainable Development contexts, the CLEWs model enhances policy coherence and supports effective decision making. This project will enhance and build on the existing CLEWs tools to make them more robust, enhance the ability of […]

Dans nos sociétés hautement connectées, les données personnelles des citoyens peuvent être utilisées par diffèrent types d’acteurs politiques aux motivations diverses. Ces données peuvent être utilisées par les partis politiques pour profiler les citoyens et leur transmettre des messages personnalisés lors des campagnes électorales. Elles peuvent aussi être utilisées par les gouvernements afin de contrôler […]

The research proposes to gauge into the lives of the transgender persons in Canada, primarily in one province and applying the law and principles of victimization assess their present situation. In an endeavor to analyze the legal lacunae, the governmental ignorance and inefficient welfare mechanisms, the research expects to conduct an empirical research to be […]

This project learns from the experience of participants in an eight-week Mind-Body Medicine program (MBM). Mind-Body Medicine (MBM) teaches people how to help themselves by uncovering and engaging their inner resources and building resilience, broadly understood. The eight-week MBM program will be delivered through the Iris Centre for Mindfulness, Peace and Healing in Fredericton. The […]

The overarching objective of the RC project is to generate evidence to support the successful development, implementation, and evaluation of the Recovery College model in the Vancouver Coastal Health region of British Columbia. Research conducted by interns on this project will include incorporating lessons learned from current and previous Recovery Colleges in other areas of […]

The project will focus on how covid affected homework services provided by NEEDS Inc. Working with clients in-person versus remotely is different. Transitioning to using remote resources made everyone adjust to what they were used to, adjusting to a different way of life. The Intern will focus on the remote homework club and the technical […]