Recent campaigns by anti-abortion activists in the United States have centered on the claim that medication abortion with mifepristone, a highly effective regimen for early pregnancy termination, can be “reversed”. Despite the fact that this is not supported by medical evidence, multiple states have incorporated this information into state mandated counselling materials for abortion patients. […]

This research project will analyze different funding options for watershed co-governance in the Nicola River watershed in British Columbia. There are ongoing efforts in the Nicola River watershed to develop and implement a co-governance structure involving the Province of BC and five Nicola First Nations. These efforts are made possible by short-term funding that is […]

Le projet de recherche proposé s’intéresse aux éléments caractérisant la reconversion architecturale de bâtiments industriels à Montréal ainsi qu’à Birmingham. À cette fin, je réaliserai une étude de cas comparative me permettant de comparer le recyclage du Centre Phi à un cas brummi qu’il me faut encore sélectionner. Je me pencherai, d’une part, sur le […]

Je m’intéresse aux stratégies de communication sur les médias socionumériques du groupe d’intérêts environnement Greenpeace Canada et Greenpeace France. Je porte mon attention, plus particulièrement, sur leurs campagnes liées aux changements climatiques dans ces deux pays. Je désire comprendre comment ils plaident et sensibilisent à la cause des bouleversements climatiques. Pour ce faire, j’étudie les […]

The proposed project is for the postdoctoral fellow to access healthcare data for individual adults in the province of Manitoba in order to: 1) determine the rates of metabolic acidosis in Manitoba along with associated outcomes and risk factor profiles and 2) identify patients in Manitoba who are at high risk of Fabry disease but […]

The International Olympic Committee (ICO) has been conducting sex tests since 1968, with a hiatus from 1990 to 2009, to determine the biological sex of self-identified female athletes. There have been three iterations of these tests: visual examinations, chromosomal tests, and hormonal tests. This research seeks to understand the justifications used in favor a particular […]

Ma recherche de maîtrise effectuée dans le Massif Central (France) avec le dialecte nord-occitan auvergnat, s’est appuyée sur un terrain en terres marginales de l’Occitanie (extrémité nord) et sous l’influence d’une politique française unilinguiste. J’aimerais ici réaliser une analyse comparative avec d’autres régions marginales d’Occitanie. En cela, les vallées occitanophones situées en Piémont (Italie) forment […]

Climate change demands that governing institutions at every level of society define targets for ecological transition. The UN 2030 Sustainable Development Goals are one such agenda. Actually meeting those targets takes more than planning, however — it requires the stimulation, development, and implementation of citizen-led solutions. With innovation labs and research institutes providing platforms to […]

This thesis deals with how Indian students of business/management schools adapt themselves with neo-managerial and entrepreneurial discourses presented in such schools. More specifically, I study the ways by which the aforementioned students adapt their socio-cultural background with the discourses of justification presented to them during their MBA program. In other words, I analyze how Indian […]

This project will investigate how the Global Compact on Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (the Compact), the first inter-governmentally negotiated agreement to cover all dimensions of international migration in a holistic and comprehensive manner, is impacting how the United Kingdom specifically, and EU Member States in general, are drafting new laws, rules or practice guidance […]

Incivility is prevalent across various organizations and occupations and has harmful effects on both employees and their organization. Incivility has been found to have negative consequences not only for the victims and perpetrators of incivility, but also for the observers of incivility. This project aims to investigate whether taking the perspective of the instigator rather […]

This project seeks to understand the role different European Union (EU) institutions play in the global competition for highly-skilled migrant professionals. While EU member states still retain sovereignty over the long-term admission of third country nationals, the EU Commission, Council and Parliament have started to propose and push policy initiatives related to high-skilled migration. Triggered […]