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Elham Yousefinejad (Sociology) – Municipal climate change governance: A pathway to resilience-building and and vulnerability-reduction: A case study of Kingston, Ontario
In 2019, Kingston became the first municipality in Ontario to declare a ‘climate emergency’. This declaration stimulated further commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions...
Francesco Marrato (Electrical & Computer Engineering) – Training a robot dog for search and rescue
Working with the Boston Dynamics Spot robot to develop autonomous exploration systems that use sound as a metric for where to search next. For...
Adaku Echendu (Environmental Studies) – Urban Flooding and Changing Landscapes: Improving Environmental Sustainability By Incorporating Urban Communities’ Experiences, Perceptions, and Knowledge in Environmental Management in Nigeria
Flooding is a disaster with ripple effects. Its environmental, social, and economic impacts are significant. Floods annually ravage Nigeria constituting an immediate and growing...
Annelies Verellen (Art History) – Women’s Self-portraiture in the Seventeenth Century
Annelies studies women’s strategy of self-fashioning in the early modern period, specifically through their self-portraits. She examines the prejudices embedded within the practice of...
Paulina Bleah (PhD in Nursing) – The Experience of Living with Diabetes in Liberia
Diabetes is a growing public health concern in Liberia; recent data shows about 2.1% of the population are living with the disease. This figure...
Olivia Scully (MA in Kinesiology & Health Studies) – Exploring the effects of the body acceptance movement for women and gender diverse people
Olivia investigates how people have taken up the body acceptance movement on social media, and how it has affected their relationships with their bodies,...