Browsing Doctor of Social Sciences by Title
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Knowing ourselves : an emerging dialogue between nature and leaders
(2018-02-23)This phenomenological-centered study explores the lived experiences of 12 global leaders participating in a leadership Nature retreat. Through the retreat process, set in a Nature-holding environment on the Canadian ... -
Leadership and decision making in complex settings
(2020-03-26)The purpose of this research portfolio was to help senior health system leaders (referred to as “senior leaders” herein) improve their decision making processes in order to yield better decisions and outcomes in complex ... -
Leading innovation using social capital in public-private partnerships
(2021-04-22)This synthesis paper introduces a conceptual model which explains how boundary spanning practices use relational, cognitive and structural social capital to facilitate innovation in public-private partnerships (PPPs). ... -
Linking animals, social justice and social work
(2022-02-25)Speciesism is a social justice issue that refers to a widespread set of discriminatory beliefs, practices and structures that harm nonhumans. This research aims to contribute to the elimination of speciesism by raising ... -
Mapping motivations for a Canadian leisure experience : impact of social media engagement
(2017-05-05)Mapping Motivations for a Canadian Leisure Experience seeks to reveal the impact social media has on the leisure tourist experience in Canada. Desired experiences vary from generation to generation. How influential are ... -
Millennials as second-person witnesses of the Holocaust : a case study on the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site
(2023-03-28)The future of Holocaust remembrance is brittle as we navigate transgenerational interpretations of memory. Understanding this trend is important, given a revival in far-right radicalism worldwide and a growing disconnect ... -
Mismatches in salmon social-ecological systems : insights from Canada’s North Pacific Coast
(2022-03-28)This dissertation provides an important contribution to the study of institutional fit by providing an empirical examination of mismatches, and solutions for overcoming them, in some of the world’s most resilient and ... -
Narratives of gender and identity of young men : education, family and community in a northern BC single industry town
(2019-03-28)This research is aimed at understanding how masculinities are developed in five males who grew up in a small northern BC community. Using narratives and autoethnography, this research shows that the community, family and ... -
Oil spills disaster in Ogoniland : social and cultural perspectives
(2022-05-31)Disasters are human creations, whether they originate from natural or technological hazards. The type of hazard that originates the disaster shapes how a community or group responds to or is affected by it. The time and ... -
Our stories matter, our own way : the safe and meaningful engagement of young people in post-conflict truth telling in northern Uganda
(2014-10-23)Young people's engagement in post-conflict truth telling is a relatively new phenomenon. Limited research has explored how current methods impact young people and if alternative methods could be used. This research applied ... -
Our work, our voice : children's work experiences in Alberta, Canada
(2017-02-23)This qualitative research study examined children’s work experiences in Alberta Canada. Children 9-16 years of age discussed the challenges, concerns and hopes they had for current and future work experiences and societal ... -
Permaculture : building spiritual and cultural practices : Woodsong eco-farm cooperative
(2021-09-07)The goal of this research has been to explore how people describe their experience with integrating permaculture design into their lives, and what spiritual and cultural perspectives they have to offer to the permaculture ... -
Picking up our medicine bundles in a modern-day context : community mobilization and sustainable mental health self determination using Indigenous theory and methodology
(2020-10-13)Over the past fifteen years the Indigenous rural communities in northern Saskatchewan have experienced suicide at overwhelming epidemic rates. There seems to be a clear connection between these high suicide rates and the ... -
Post colonial Canada? government approach to implementing treaty First Nation land and resource rights
(2022-12-22)Past and present colonial policies and legislation permit continuous infringement on Numbered Treaty First Nation rights, lands, resources, and Peoples—suppressing opportunities for political and socio-economic advancement. ... -
Productivity constraints in residential housing operations : a case for enhancing management knowledge to mitigate founder-centrality and organizational inertia
(2020-06-25)Purpose. Firm level case using action research (AR) to investigate constraints to productivity improvements leading to sustainability (social, economic, environmental) to help organizations and municipalities understand ... -
Protecting the information society : exploring corporate decision makers’ attitudes towards active cyber defence as an online deterrence option
(2019-04-01)Protecting the Information Society consists of using passwords, firewalls, encryption, and educating end users on the safe internet security practices. Beginning in the 1990’s a second option was briefly considered by ... -
Quality of relatedness and its effect on the perceptions of well-being among children aged 8–13 in Sharabiyya Quarter (Cairo, Egypt)
(2021-06-01)Children constitute nearly 40% of Egypt’s population which has approached 102 million in 2021, and represent the growing majority among its poor according to UNICEF. Poverty negatively affects children’s survival and ... -
Rainwater harvesting in semi-arid Kenya : Practices and prospects
(2017-06-08)The aim of this research was to investigate the practices that constrain or facilitate effective rainwater harvesting in semi-arid Kenya. At 647 cubic meters per capita water availability, Kenya is considered water scarce ... -
Reaching the intersection of Indigenous and modern : a critical analysis of disaster risk management modernization in Ivatan Indigenous communities
(2021-04-17)Known for their Indigenous knowledge, systems, and practices (IKSPs) in managing disaster risks, the Ivatans of Batanes Province in the Philippines are faced with the pressures of modernizing such generations-old traditions. ... -
Recipient perspectives of privately funded aid in Tanzania
(2016-04-25)Development aid work is dependent on funding, and the funding model is changing. Private philanthropic funding from the world's developed economies to countries of developing economies is USD $59 billion. This figure ...
