Multiple Regions
AUSTRALIA, FRANCE, UNITED KINGDOM, UNITED STATES
RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY AND ITS LIMITS : MOVING BEYOND TOLERANCE AND ACCOMODATION
Faculty: Faculty of Arts
Unit: Department of Classics and Religious Studies
Funding Agency: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)
Description: This large-scale project assembles an international team of 36 researchers in 5 countries. The program of research focuses on religious freedom and its articulation in Canadian society generally and in law specifically. The program examines the ways in which religion is defined in Canada and how these definitions are translated into interpretations of religious freedom. This research has brought a Canadian voice to the table in international projects examining human rights in the UK, Australia, France and the US. This unique research places Canada in the context of other Western democracies in its goal to identify global patterns in response to religious diversity.
Project website : http://www.religionanddiversity.ca/about-project/
AUSTRALIA, FRANCE, MEXICO, UNITED KINGDOM, THE NETHERLANDS
SOCIAL ANAYLSIS OF RISK: SECURITY, ENVIRONMENT, POPULATION HEALTH
Faculties: Faculty of Medicine / Faculty of Social Sciences
Units: Institute of Population Health / School of Psychology
Funding Agency: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)
Description: This project aim to develop a national and international network for an interdisciplinary synthesis of social aspects of risks, and a framework for social innovation to strengthen resilience towards contemporary risks such as security, environment and health. Case studies are built on terrorism, natural disasters, pandemic forecasts, food safety, pollution and climate change. The program is based on qualitative and quantitative methodologies examining the dynamics of social appraisal and social management of risk at the individual and collective (community and institution) levels, which would inform public policy development.
Project website : http://www.gapsante.uottawa.ca
GLOBAL
FRENCH ON A CONTINENTAL SCALE: A SHARED HERITAGE
Faculty : Faculty of Arts
Unit : Département de français
Funding Agency : Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)
Description: This study uses innovative approaches by presenting individuals and their language as a central factor in the changes that society undergoes and by examining the relationship between the cognitive and cultural aspects of language. Relying on extensive documentation, the study seeks to better identify the concerns of present-day francophone communities, in majority, minority or multicultural settings. The research also helps producing a major corpus of French in North America, which includes informal exchanges between individuals in the form of private correspondence or spontaneous conversation. This publicly accessible tool is useful as a starting point to systematically compare francophone communities. The study involves contributions from more than 54 team members from 39 institutions in Canada, the United States, France and other countries working in a variety of disciplines, including linguistics, anthropology, history, geography and computer science.
Project website : http://polyphonies.uottawa.ca/projets-de-recherche/2010-present/gtrc2011/
THE SOCIAL ISSUES OF A FAMILY CHOOSING A SCHOOL: A FRANCO-CANADIAN COMPARISON
Faculty : Faculty of Education
Unité : Chair in Canadian Francophonie
Description : The question of a family choosing a school has been at the centre of academic policies in OECD countries for about fifteen years. This partnership project, innovative in the Franco-Canadian context, aims at questioning the social issues surrounding educational offer diversification. This project allows for the development of an international partnership that brings together researchers from France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Brazil and the United States.
INDIA, PHILIPPINES, SOUTH AFRICA, THE CARIBBEAN
"SOURCE" COUNTRY PERSPECTIVES ON THE MIGRATION OF HIGHLY TRAINED HEALTH PERSONNEL: CAUSES, CONSEQUENCES AND RESPONSES
Faculty: Faculty of Health Sciences
Unit: Interdisciplinary School of Health Sciences
Funding Agency: Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR)
Description: This research addresses some of the causes, consequences and responses of source countries (the Philippines, India, South Africa, and the Caribbean region) to the migration of highly trained health personnel. This includes a focus on doctors, nurses and health care managers and educators. The research team examines the responses to minimize the negative consequences highlighting some useful examples that could be implemented across these and other countries. This information will help to ensure that Canada meets its international obligations to improve situations in countries from which it benefits.
JAMAICA, KENYA, SOUTH AFRICA, UGANDA
STRENGTHENING NURSES’ CAPACITY FOR HIV POLICY DEVELOPMENT IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
Faculty: Faculty of Health Sciences
Unit: School of Nursing
Funding Agency: International Development Research Centre (IDRC); Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)
Description: A team of 25 co-investigators and 15 collaborators from Canada and four partner countries -Kenya, Jamaica, Uganda, and South Africa - are engaged in a program of research and capacity-building in the two regions with the highest global prevalence of HIV. Health professionals need research and policy capacity to create effective multi-level programs that address the HIV and AIDS pandemic. This project uses a participatory action research approach and mixed methods to undertake four research projects with innovative, multi-country comparative studies and capacity-building strategies to contribute to health systems strengthening for HIV and AIDS. The goal is to improve the quality of HIV and AIDS nursing care, support the scaling-up of innovative programs and practices, and promote active and sustained involvement of researchers and research users in the policy development process.
Project website: http://aix1.uottawa.ca/~nedwards/english/IRIS.html
JAPAN, GERMANY
GLOBAL NETWORK FOR BRAIN RECONSTRUCTION
Faculty: Faculty of Medicine
Unit: Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Funding Agency: Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Promotion Corporation
Description: The Global Network for Brain Reconstruction is an international excellence cluster linking leading research laboratories, clinical centres and industrial firms from Japan, Canada and Germany that utilise advanced platforms for exploration of the damaged brain. The reconstruction of neuronal networks is necessary for identifying target sites for the therapeutic treatment of the damaged brain in neurodegenerative diseases. This research network provides a cohesive academic-industrial discovery engine which integrates Research Groups and complimentary expertise with advanced research platforms and techniques allowing investigators to reconstruct neural networks in vitro.