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Managing Talent Migration for Innovation and Growth: Challenges and Opportunities in the U.K.

This project examines how technology firms in both Oxfordshire and London, U.K. attract and retain migrants with skills in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). U.K. technology firms greatly contribute to economic growth and innovation in the country. However, scholars, government officials, and employers are increasingly concerned that these contributions in the STEM sector will decline due to insufficient foreign talent as a result of policy changes and political tensions caused by Brexit and the politicization of migration, including high-skilled labour migration. By conducting research on how sub-state entities, clusters, and technology firms navigate political uncertainties as a result of Brexit and existing policies in the U.K., this project seeks to gain insight into ‘best practices’ and hurdles in international talent mobility in the U.K. with the goal of providing actionable policy recommendations to better enhance high-skilled migration policies. The empirical data generated will be used in 1) the applicant’s honours research essay, 2) the creation of a country profile on the U.K. (to be published at migrationforinnovation.info) where the applicant has an existing publication on Ireland, and 3) a co-authored publication. In addition, this project will result in a workshop presentation in the U.K. to academic and non-academic audiences.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Martin Geiger

Student:

Partner:

University of West London

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Public Service, Policy, and Governance; Technology; Other

University:

Carleton University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Cartographie de l’épaisseur du neige à l’aide de données radar et multisource

Le pergélisol présent dans les hautes latitudes ou bien en altitude s’est développé sous des conditions climatiques particulières, notamment lors des dernières glaciations, où le climat permettait de maintenir le sol à des températures inférieures à 0°C pendant plus de 2 ans. Le gel a permis, entre autre, de stocker une quantité importante de carbone retrouvé dans des dépôts organiques, tel que des racines et des plantes. Or, le réchauffement climatique observés provoque la dégradation du pergélisol qui, conséquemment, libère des quantités de gaz à effet de serre. Des études sont donc nécessaire pour améliorer les connaissances sur les environnements nordiques, pour ainsi mieux modéliser les flux de carbone émis par ce type de sol.
Les études antérieures ont démontré que le couvert saisonnier de neige joue un rôle essentiel dans le régime thermique du pergélisol, en raison sa propriété isolante. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Alexandre Langlois

Student:

Partner:

University of Potsdam

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Education

University:

Université de Sherbrooke

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Spatial Dynamic Modeling of Tropical Forest Change

The main objective of my research is to use spatial dynamic models (a combination of Cellular Automata model and Agent-Based model, short for CA-model and AB-model) to simulate future scenarios of tropical forest in the Guanacaste region, Costa Rica. It is a multi-layer model, including three layers. The top one is CA-model layer, and it is used for simulating the tropical forest change and transmitting this change over time. The middle layer is AB-model layer. The factors in this part are non-spatial data (e.g. policy, population and economy). The bottom layer is constraint layer. It expresses how the geographical factors constrain and impact on forest change. I aim to obtain the following results: i) evolution of the tropical forest n during the past 34 years, ii) a multi-layer model used to reproduce the process of tropical forest change, and iii) future scenarios of forest change simulated by the model.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Gerardo Arturo Sanchez-Azofeifa

Student:

Partner:

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Education

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Evaluation of influenza virus inactivation on filter salt coatings for respiratory protection applications

Airborne pathogens can easily and quickly spread respiratory diseases. Devices currently used for protection in hospitals, such as N95 respirators, rely only on filtration. Additionally, surgical masks have been increasingly used, although not effective against aerosols. This has been observed during past pandemics and epidemics of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), swine flu, and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS). If the filters do not inactivate the pathogens, the contaminated masks can cause infection and transmission of the diseases. We propose a universal and reusable mask, which efficiently kills pathogens on its filter. We have reported the development of a safe, highly effective sodium chloride-coated filter, which destroys influenza virus using salt recrystallization. In this collaboration, we will further characterize the influenza-neutralizing capability of different salt coating formulations, by fine-tuning their properties to match different environmental conditions of use/storage. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Hyo-Jick Choi

Student:

Partner:

Georgia State University

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Biotechnology; Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Technology

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Development of a new high efficiency method for drug delivery using nanoparticles and liquid precursor in Atmospheric Pressure Plasma Enhanced Vapour Deposition (AP-PECVD) processr application in theranostics

Emerging as a targeted, safe and efficient pharmacotherapy is the approach of theranostics, which focuses on patient-centered care. It is a combination of diagnosis and therapeutics and provides a cost-effective specific successful treatment protocol. The aim of this research would be to take all the knowledge that has been gathered during the previous 2 years of study of nanoparticle and polymer deposition using atmospheric pressure plasma. It has been concluded that nanocomposites can be created, the next step will be to evaluate the cabability of the method to deposit two types of nanoparticles at the same time. This will create nanocomposites, which will contain particles responsible for drug delivery as well as imaging agents, allowing dual performance: therapy and diagnosis. In order to create the dual-application nanocomposites a careful analysis of not only the deposition itself, but also the process itself as it happens. To do that a unique configuration for Space-Resolved Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy, which is one of this kind in the world, was built in Perpignan, France.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Gaétan Laroche

Student:

Partner:

Université de Perpignan

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Education

University:

Université Laval

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Strategic BC Salmon Health Initiative: effects of pathogens on the health and conservation of BC’s Pacific Salmon

B.C.’s Pacific salmon are in decline yet the causes are not clear. The role of disease in declining productivity is poorly understood but is potentially an important factor especially given recent controversies involving salmon farms and disease transmission to wild salmon. We have recently collected quantitative data on 47+ viral, bacterial, fungal, and protozoan pathogens in >16,000 out-migrating juvenile sockeye, Chinook and coho salmon and 4,500 salmon from farms culturing Atlantic and Chinook salmon. These large and complex datasets now require sophisticated analyses and results summarized for scientific papers, and to inform salmon management. Three postdoctoral fellows will lead the analyses, write-up and extension of the results. They will work in association with the Pacific Salmon Foundation, our partner, to conduct the analyses and help our partner better inform salmon management and develop conservation policies for the species that the Pacific Salmon Foundation helps to protect and conserve.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Scott Hinch;Curtis Suttle;Kristi Miller

Student:

Partner:

Pacific Salmon Foundation

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Agriculture; Other services (except public administration); Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

The biology of social inequality

On average, individuals from more disadvantaged social backgrounds will develop diseases earlier and die earlier compared with their more advantaged peers. Indeed, so ubiquitous is the association between health and wealth that it has been referred to as a ‘fundamental’ cause of disease. Understanding how social group based differences in socio-economic position (SEP) get biologically embedded in the tissues and organs of the body to precipitate earlier ageing of the poor is an important research endeavour with implications for public policy. This project will investigate the extent to which life course psychosocial stressors (e.g. traumatic life events) contribute to social inequalities using data from the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA); a large nationally representative panel study of ageing in the Republic of Ireland involving data for some 8500 individuals with rich life course data and deep biological phenotyping.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Diane Lagace

Student:

Partner:

Trinity College Dublin

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

University of Ottawa

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Envy this? The efficacy of a pillow aid in the neuropsychology and psychological functioning of sleep deprived individuals.

Research has shown that poor sleep has been shown to result in impairments in attention, memory, reaction times and other cognitive domains along with impairments in mood. Various sleeping aids such as pillows and neck-collars have been introduced in an effort to increase the duration and quality of sleep. Though the manufacturers claim positive testimonials of their products, they lack results from scientific studies. To this end, one sleep aid, the enVy Pillow, will be tested for its effectiveness in improving sleep quality and in turn cognitive capacity and mood. Participants will be tested across various cognitive domains and mood questionnaires after using their usual pillow and the enVy Pillow. The expected benefit to the partner organization is scientific testing and interpretation of their product. Should there be positive findings, the manufacturer can market their product as an aid that has been scientifically evaluated.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Konstantine Zakzanis

Student:

Partner:

Envy Pillow;Westwood Health Clinic

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Optimal actuator location for semilinear systems

Consider the temperature distribution in a classroom; to change it, we need to install a heater somewhere in the classroom. With a heater, we can raise the temperature, as well as change its distribution such that less heat flows to doors and windows, and more to seats. The location of the heater in the room significantly affects performance. There will be a location that minimizes spending on heat. In this project, we try to answer such similar questions for wide class of physical systems not just heating processes, for example fluid flow, coupled flow/diffusion, structural vibrations. The focus is on nonlinear models as the linear cases have already been studied. Example of nonlinear models are the railway track model, and also many diffusion and flow processes. The linear theory cannot be used to investigate such models.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Kirsten Morris

Student:

Partner:

Université de Bordeaux

Discipline:

Mathematics

Sector:

Advanced Manufacturing; Energy and Utilities; Aerospace

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Spherical harmonic representation of sound field using a velocity microphone for source localization and source separation

The rapid emergence of voice interfaces in our everyday devices has driven the need to develop audio systems that are robust to noisy environments. Traditionally, arrays of pressure based microphones are used to listen into a specific sound and block out the surrounding noise. However, this comes at a tradeoff of increased size and decreased audio quality. Recently, Soundskrit has developed a new type of microphone that can directly measure the particle velocity of a sound field. This microphone inherently measures the vector components of the incoming sound, providing directional information of the acoustic environment. In this project, we will investigate how information on the sound’s particle velocity can be leveraged to perform accurate sound source localization and separation while maintaining a relatively small footprint. Such a system could enable new features in a variety of consumer devices.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Philippe-Aubert Gauthier

Student:

Partner:

TandemLaunch Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Finance and Insurance; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université de Sherbrooke

Program:

Accelerate

TRICHUM: Translating Research into Innovation for Cannabis Health at Université de Moncton

Supplying cannabis, and cannabis products, to a legalized retail market represents a major economic opportunity and has been identified as a growth opportunity under New Brunswick’s Economic Growth Plan (Province of New Brunswick, 2016). Indeed, the retail market value for recreational cannabis in Canada is expected to reach $8.7 billion annually (Deloitte, 2016); however, current production capacity will not meet the anticipated demand. Because the commercial production of cannabis has been illegal, and production has been largely artisanal and clandestine, cannabis has not benefitted from the application of biotechnologies (particularly genomics) that have led to massive increases in yields and sustainability of other agricultural production systems. In this innovative project, and working in close collaboration with OrganiGram Inc., a concerted research-driven approach will be developed to support the development and the growth of the cannabis industry in Atlantic Canada through the application and adaptation of novel biotechnologies. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

David Joly;Martin Filion

Student:

Partner:

Organigram

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

Université de Moncton

Program:

Accelerate

Les effets de l’intelligence compétitive et de la capacité d’absorption sur la performance de l’innovation des PME canadiennes (extension)

L’incertitude et la complexité de l’environnement externe incitent les entreprises, notamment les PME à performer en innovation afin de développer un avantage concurrentiel et de rester compétitives. L’innovation requiert des idées créatrices. Toutefois, la majorité des PME ne disposent pas de ressources suffisantes pour la recherche et développement ce qui rend sa survie difficile. L’intelligence compétitive peut combler ce manque de ressources par la collecte d’information pertinente au processus d’innovation. Cependant, les PME doivent être dotées des capacités et des compétences permettant d’aller au-delà de l’acquisition de l’information, rendant possible la conversion de l’information externe en connaissances utiles et applicables au processus d’innovation. Cette recherche vise donc à étudier les effets des processus d’intelligence compétitive et de la capacité d’absorption sur la performance de l’innovation au sein des PME québécoises. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Elaine Mosconi

Student:

Partner:

Merkur Inc

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université de Sherbrooke

Program:

Accelerate

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