Research
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Latest funding
- $118,749
The labour market inclusion of African Immigrants in Canada
SSHRC · 2025 · Co-investigator
- $100,000
Sport fandom to engage newcomers to Canada in type 2 diabetes prevention: A pilot, cluster randomized controlled trial of a community-based health behaviour change and exercise intervention (FIT for Newcomers)
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
- $24,926
Exploring the Needs, Requirements, and Preferences for a Mobile Application to Facilitate New Immigrant Settlement: A Service-Academic Partnership Project
SSHRC · 2024 · Co-investigator
No publications available.
The labour market inclusion of African Immigrants in Canada
Principal investigators: Chikanda, Abel
Sport fandom to engage newcomers to Canada in type 2 diabetes prevention: A pilot, cluster randomized controlled trial of a community-based health behaviour change and exercise intervention (FIT for Newcomers)
Principal investigators: Petrella, Robert J
Keywords: Cluster Design; Exercise; Health Behaviour Change; Healthy Eating; Newcomer Health; Physical Activity; Pilot Rct; Pragmatic Research; Process Evaluation; Type 2 Diabetes Prevention
Exploring the Needs, Requirements, and Preferences for a Mobile Application to Facilitate New Immigrant Settlement: A Service-Academic Partnership Project
Principal investigators: Allana, Saleema
Keywords: New Immigrants; Settlement Services; Technology; Mobile Application
Long term housing outcomes of under-housed Syrian refugees
Principal investigators: Oudshoorn, Abram
Keywords: housing; refugees; Syrian newcomers; immigration; grounded theory
Optimizing the provision of information to facilitate the settlement and integration of refugees in Canada: case studies of Syrian refugees in London, Ontario and Calgary, Alberta
Principal investigators: Esses, Victoria M.
Faith and settlement partnerships: setting immigrants and Canada up for success
Principal investigators: Janzen, Richard P.
Keywords: immigrant settlement and integration; faith and society; community-university research partnerships; knowledge mobilization
Optimizing the provision of information to facilitate the settlement and integration of immigrants in Canada
Principal investigators: Esses, Victoria M.
Keywords: immigrants; information seeking; information provision; persuasion; communication; integration; settlement
Using Attributional Retraining to Improve Skilled Immigrants’ Labour Market Outcomes
Principal investigators: Hamilton, Leah
Keywords: (1) immigrants; (2) integration; (3) attribution theory; (4) job search strategies; (5) underemployment
COMPÉTENCES - Les facteurs de succès de l'intégration des étudiants internationaux à la société canadienne : de l'attraction à la rétention au marché de l'emploi
Principal investigators: Belkhodja, Chedly
French/English inter-provincial migration in Canada's bilingual belt
Principal investigators: Bourhis, Richard Y.
Keywords: attitudes towards immigrants; acculturation orientation; economic and linguistic competition; common ongroup identity; inter-provincial migration; push-pull factors; French Canadians; English Canadians; franco-ontariens; acadiens
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