Universities can be leaders in sustainability by building food sovereign campuses and communities. Instead, universities across Canada are contributing to unsustainable and unjust food practices by hiring multinational corporations (Aramark, Sodexo, Chartwells-Compass) that externalize social and environmental costs. The intern will continue the research from their Ph.D. dissertation about building food sovereign campuses and work […]

Tel qu’il a émergé dans la Silicon Valley autour du modèle de la « start-up », le monde de l’entrepreneuriat numérique s’est fondé sur des valeurs d’ouverture, d’inclusion et de liberté, laissant imaginer le respect d’une égalité professionnelle. Pourtant, alors que l’écosystème des start-up québécois est en pleine expansion, les femmes ne représentent que 15 […]

Social determinants of health, including factors such as social isolation, food insecurity, and income, play a big part in our health. To account for these important social factors, some healthcare organizations have begun to adopt a strategy called social prescribing which involves regularly asking people if they need help with social determinant of health issues […]

Ce projet de recherche, mandaté par le Groupe Multisports (GMS) St-Léonard, en collaboration avec l’arrondissement de Saint-Léonard, vise à comprendre les déterminants de participation aux loisirs, au sport organisé et à la gestion bénévole des organisations sportives. Une attention particulière sera portée aux facteurs facilitant la participation, aux contraintes, ainsi qu’à la motivation. Le projet […]

PSR Canada is a grassroots volunteer professional organization that provides education to practitioners in the field of mental health and addiction. Using its Competencies of Practice for Canadian Recovery-Oriented Psychosocial Rehabilitation Practitioners, a document compiled through the Scientific Committee of the organization, it offers a national certification program for people who want to demonstrate their […]

Designing a P2P Money Exchange platform application that creates a social network based on mutual trust will help individuals trust each other and participate in deals for Peer-to-Peer money exchange. This idea focuses on eliminating the need to use escrow mechanisms and the complexities of handling extra electronic payment and money transfer transactions and mandatory […]

The Social Innovation Academy will be working with a network of Mitacs interns to develop national-scale backend infrastructure resources for incubation and acceleration organizations across Canada. These resources may include (but are not limited to): initiatives for advancing equity, diversity, and inclusion; impact measurement frameworks; In addition, interns will provide marketing, research, and financial analysis […]

While much of how we interact with the world is grounded in the body, embodied forms of knowledge have received little attention in research and practice. The inherent difficulty in communicating embodied experiences, and the paucity of tools to do so, poses a significant barrier to sharing it—a problem which is only exacerbated by our […]

This project is in partnership with the Secwepemcúl’ecw Restoration and Stewardship Society, founded by eight Secwépemc First Nations to advance Secwépemc-led restoration and sustainable stewardship of lands and resources throughout Secwepecúl’ecw (the traditional territory of the Secwépemc Nation). Guided by the Secwépemc concept of ‘walking on two legs’, our project advances a novel pathway of […]

Housing First (HF) is an approach that assists people with serious mental illness who are chronically homeless to become housed. Research has shown HF assists people in leaving homelessness and achieving stable housing. However, HF participants do not experience increased participation in the community or improved social networks. In response to these results, the present […]

Blockchain and the metaverse are emerging technologies that are capturing the attention of triple-A game studios, social media giants, and leaders in other tech domains. The metaverse can be described as a virtual 3D world, converging real world perceptions in a digital space with an infinite amount of possibilities. This convergence exactly represents the next […]

This project will assist both West Central Women’s Resource Centre and North End Women’s Centre in identifying community needs as they transition out of the pandemic and towards sustainable and responsive programming through arts-based programming and outreach. The objective of this project will be to plan and implement arts-based programming within the centres an support […]