How technology relates to Canadian national defence policy, strategy, and planning is not well understood. To date, much of the research on emerging technology in the military focuses on concerns over ethics, privacy, human rights, and governance, largely overshadowing equally important research on the way technology intersects with military strategy and tactics, defence recruitment and […]

Le processus de cyberne?tisation des socie?te?s a modifie? de manie?re pre?gnante les structures communicationnelles, politiques, e?conomiques, culturelles et sociales, alors que le Web 2.0 a profonde?ment bouleverse? la nature et la porte?e des interactions sociales ainsi que les usages sociaux du cyberespace. Les pratiques d’exposition en ligne comportent toutes un risque et un coût social […]

The research project will look at how EndPoverty Edmonton has engaged with the diverse Indigenous population that lives in Edmonton on their interests and perspectives on eliminating poverty. Indigenous peoples and communities continue to experience social and economic inequality as compared to other Canadians. Their social and economic inequality can be linked to the impacts […]

It is well-known that the growth of young firms accounts for a disproportionate share of employment growth and the associated economic welfare. In Canada and Japan, small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) represent around 99.7 percent of each country’s total firms and over 70 percent of each country’s total employment. However, SMEs are known to suffer […]

Ce projet de recherche traite du rôle de la race dans la structuration des espaces verts et des loisirs à Montréal et Détroit des années 1960 aux années 1990. Deux approches seront centrales à cette étude: l’approche des politiques municipales (dynamiques d’implantations des espaces verts, règlements, investissements des espaces verts, équipements, discours municipal de démocratisation […]

Canada and the EU are traditional allies in promoting the UN’s sustainable development goals (SDGs). As many scholars note, the WTO is an indispensable forum for realizing these laudable goals, for instance, the goal 13 fighting against climate change, for the WTO is nearly the only international organisation that has ability to enforce the implementation […]

Ma thèse s’intéresse aux processus au travers desquels les combattants au sein des guerres civiles se radicalisent, au point où ils en viennent à cibler la population civile. Ma recherche repose donc sur deux littératures distinctes, à savoir celle relative à la violence envers les civils dans les conflits intra-étatiques et celle associée aux processus […]

Asian multinational corporations (MNCs) have been a primary driver of the world region’s economic rise. Their emergence brings fresh air and new challenges to the global economic order. Key to their success is a distinct form of business culture and organizational strategy, which the existing scholarship has yet to address. This project aims to develop […]

This project aims to provide much needed evidence to community organizations who want to use evaluation findings to better understand how to work with and support vulnerable children and their families in schools. The All in for Youth initiative and its collaborative partners offer integrated, wraparound supports to improve academic outcomes and resiliency of vulnerable […]

Mon projet de thèse s’intéresse aux impacts d’investissements dans le logement social sur la santé mentale de familles inuites. Il a été développé en partenariat avec plusieurs organisations inuites du Nunavut et du Nunavik qui ont identifié les conditions de logement comme étant un levier majeur pour l’amélioration des conditions de vie et de santé […]

For profit companies can exercise influence over public politics: Advertisers withdraw funds from media programs and media outlets, companies move service centres and offices, companies stop providing services to certain clients. This research will perform a series of comparative case studies, using publicly available commercial communication and interviews with industry professionals to understand how for-profit […]

This project aims at solving the difficult problems faced by indoor positioning and related issues, which are part of the future development direction. For different positioning environments and positioning requests, the project will explore the corresponding positioning schemes, conversion mechanism sand switching strategies. The project will use the geomagnetic-based technology that does not require additional […]