Browsing Doctor of Social Sciences by Title
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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 ... -
Recovering a life in dementia : exploring the lived experiences of people living with dementia and their caregivers
(2021-06-15)Although dementia is formally classified as a mental illness in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-V), the specific and unique nature, characteristics and care needs of people living with dementia ... -
Redefining leadership to include women : a qualitative study
(2022-04-05)The purpose of this qualitative study is to advance the understanding of women’s lived experiences and perceptions throughout their careers. The study is based on women’s work life experiences, taking into consideration ... -
Reducing the vulnerability of helping professionals through inner peacebuilding : working through transgenerational trauma with body focused systemic constellations
(2021-01-05)My research is a case-within-a-case study concerned with the wellbeing of helping professionals who work with those who are traumatized. The demands from constant technological growth, globalization, and migration, which ... -
Religious dialogue as a peace building tool between India and Pakistan : the Ulema as peace builders
(2018-02-15)Religion played a critical role in the creation of the State of Pakistan. However, religious dialogue has never been considered as a means of peace building between India and Pakistan. This dissertation probes the rationale ... -
Rituals expressing gratitude to nature and pro-environmentalism : a multiple case study of long-term participation
(2019-10-17)Since time immemorial, many traditional and Indigenous cultures across the globe have ritually expressed gratitude to the natural world. Within Western academic thought, the study of gratitude is an emerging field that ... -
The role of information and communication technology within Upriver Halq'eméylem language initiatives : a case study
(2014-03-28)This case study examines the effectiveness of information and communication technology (ICT) in the Upriver Halq'eméylem language activities. The research indicates that ICT has been successful in supporting micro-level ... -
The social environment and Indigenous student success in a Canadian post-secondary institution
(2017-01-20)A qualitative case study was used to explore emerging changes in social relations at a regional university in British Columbia, Canada, following implementation of a government policy on the indigenization of public ... -
Statebuilding in Afghanistan : a case study of empire in denial
(2017-04-13)This dissertation provides an assessment of statebuilding practices in Afghanistan, focusing on practitioner experiences in infrastructure and rural development projects. After numerous interventions and decades of ... -
Student post-secondary success via physical exercise activities
(2022-11-11)A research gap exists regarding the association between physical exercise and academic success within the post-secondary demographic as reported by post-secondary students. This study aimed to understand this gap through ... -
Taking action to re-localise the global food system : if not now, when?
(2022-02-15)This dissertation reports on a three-year participatory action research (PAR) initiative aimed at re-localising the food system in a specific locale in Canada. It describes the process from theory to practice of building ... -
Telling a different story : a counternarrative on Black graduates’ experiences at Canadian post-secondary institutions
(2021-05-05)All too often, narratives in media, public discourse, and some scholarship in the United States and Canada focus on low access and retention rates of black students attending post-secondary institutions. Although it is ...
