Data Analysis Research Assistant

The project necessitates proficiency in computer programming and skills for qualitative data analysis, interpretation, and visualizing findings. A background in coding is essential, as is the ability to categorize qualitative data for applying statistical methods, particularly with non-numeric attributes. Proficiency in engaging with qualitative data to extract meaningful insights, identify trends, and discover correlations is a critical requirement. The project's culmination will be a paper underpinned by supporting visualizations and statistical evidence.

A Scoping Review on the Knowledge Gaps in the Current Literature Critical Race Theory and Anti-Black Racism Framework in Social Work Education, Research, and Practice - Winter 2024

This proposed research is a scoping review. This type of methodology seeks to undertake a comprehensive search of the breadth and scope of all available literature pertaining to the research topic and question. The main purpose of conducting a scoping study is to identify gaps in existing literature, to summarize and synthesize research findings from existing literature. The data will be amassed from published peer-reviewed academic publications in English from 2000 to 2022 through key word searches such as ‘social work and critical race theory and education,’ and ‘social work and anti-Black racism and research’ in order to extract relevant data. Some of the electronic databases that would be used are EBSCO and ProQuest. The abstract of articles will be reviewed to ensure they meet the keyword search criteria. Those that are not a good fit will be eliminated at this stage. This process will be followed by an extensive review of the articles’ content to complete the final selection of eligible articles. This will be followed by the charting of emergent themes. The scoping review will be concluded with a written report of the findings.

Level- UP - MacEwan- Tutorial videos for Datasets application -4

We would like students to help us with creating content that is aligned with our vision, mission, and sector. We will ensure the student has a clear understanding of what these elements are for our organization. The aim of this project is to create promotional videos and tutorials for a group of web-based educational tools. We need a team of students to capture, edit and create promotional videos and tutorials for those educational tools. The project is composed of two new phases. Phase 3: Capture, edit and create promotional videos, in addition to some tutorial videosPhase 4: Capture, edit and create tutorial videos for the applications.We will provide guidance to all students.

Level- UP - MacEwan- Tutorial videos for Datasets application -3

We would like students to help us with creating content that is aligned with our vision, mission, and sector. We will ensure the student has a clear understanding of what these elements are for our organization. The aim of this project is to create promotional videos and tutorials for a group of web-based educational tools. We need a team of students to capture, edit and create promotional videos and tutorials for those educational tools. The project is composed of two new phases. Phase 3: Capture, edit and create promotional videos, in addition to some tutorial videosPhase 4: Capture, edit and create tutorial videos for the applications.We will provide guidance to all students.

Level UP CDA Updating MacEwanLife Resources Phase #2

Review and update existing ML resources including documents, videos and links. We are hopeful to continue the creation of competency badges that students worked on this summer. There are an additional four competencies to create for MacEwanLife. We are also creating certificates for a number of other events and would love the student to take this on, as well.

Optimization methods for agriculture insurance

This project is an application of mathematical modelling and optimization to a livestock insurance problem. The goal is to analyze various scenarios from a farmer’s perspective and to minimize the loss. The main idea is to design and implement in Python a numerical simulation, including various scenarios in terms of the farm size and insurance premiums.  

Student Connect Event

The student connect event will bring together students and community stakeholders to support the unhoused population in Edmonton. There are 2 main parts of the project, the first is that the student will consult with inner city organizations to understand how students at MacEwan University (across various faculties) can contribute their skills to assist in addressing the housing crisis. The second part of this project involves collaborating with students, professors and stakeholders at MacEwan University who are interested in these supports and services.

Chemistry Laboratory Redesign and Testing

The main goal for the project is to redesign and test the introductory chemistry laboratories at MacEwan University- Department of Physical Sciences. This will involve several different steps for the students, including:- Analyzing the current structure and content of the introductory chemistry laboratories.- Designing a new curriculum and laboratory layout that enhances the learning experience for students.- Testing the new curriculum and laboratory layout with a focus group of students and faculty.- Making adjustments based on feedback and finalizing the redesigned laboratories.

Learning Partial Differential Equations with fMRI Data

In this project, we apply an appropriate data-driven method to derive the potential partial differential equation model hidden in an fMRI dataset collected by Visconti di Oleggio Castello, Matteo et al. (2020). This dataset records the responses of 25 subjects who watched part of the feature film "The Grand Budapest Hotel" by Wes Anderson.

Reach for the Stars

 Student-led networking event for industry professionals and students in the Dept of Communication. The event is designed to foster student success, engagement and retention. This has been a successful annual event that started last year. It led to further mentoring sessions and connections for potential field place. The members of the student organizing team also ended getting a job after graduation. 

Level UP: First Year Experience Mentorship (Phase 3)

Positions available: 115December 2021 - January 202210 hours/week for 8 weeksAll first-year students will be grouped in cohorts based on faculty or program and will be assigned an upper year student as a mentor. The start of the term is when most students need support; a mentor will organize virtual meetings, activities and socials while providing guidance for a smooth transition to university life. Mentors will:Get thorough mentorship training and knowledge of MacEwan student servicesEnhance their leadership skills through positive role modellingAdd to your career profile and gain a co-curricular record positionContribute to a positive campus culture experience

Level UP: First Year Experience Mentorship (Phase 2)

Positions available: 115September - October, 202110 hours/week for 8 weeksAll first-year students will be grouped in cohorts based on faculty or program and will be assigned an upper year student as a mentor. The start of the term is when most students need support; a mentor will organize virtual meetings, activities and socials while providing guidance for a smooth transition to university life. Mentors will:Get thorough mentorship training and knowledge of MacEwan student servicesEnhance their leadership skills through positive role modellingAdd to your career profile and gain a co-curricular record positionContribute to a positive campus culture experience

Community Partner Project Extension

Students will be given an opportunity to extend their community partner projects from the Winter 2022 semester.Projects must start by Monday, April 11, but can start as soon as students have confirmed with their employers that they will be continuing their projects.Students must submit their final projects by Monday, April 25, 2022.

Level UP C and E design for ML upgrade phase 4

Develop graphics and images for the ML symplicity upgrade

Genetic Diversity in Franklin’s Ground Squirrels

The project aims to characterize mitochondrial genetic diversity in historical and contemporary individuals of Franklin’s ground squirrels. Currently this species is listed as “data deficient” in the province of Alberta, meaning that there is not enough information to determine if it is declining and in need of protections. Genetic information, coupled with other information from field surveys and community observations, can help to fill this information gap and help guide management decisions.

MacEwan Careers & Experience Research Project

Leadership and Engagement is a team that provides MacEwan students with cocurricular experiential learning opportunities. This includes but is not limited to campus and communities volunteer experiences and activities to develop career-ready leadership skills. Initiatives include the Emerging Leaders Certificate program, MacEwan Ambassador Program, Golden Key International Honour Society chapter, Co-curricular Record, First-Year Experience Mentorship Program, and the iVolunteer campaign.Students will complete a project for MacEwan’s Careers and Experience Office that explores experiences and perspectives among students who are participating or have participated in Leadership and Engagement programs and services. Ms. Dogbe leads these initiatives at MacEwan and is hoping to further understand how to best support MacEwan students, and their future career journeys and prospects, through volunteer and community engagement opportunities.Research questions: What are the strengths of the volunteering/community engagement opportunities currently offered? Can they be enhanced and, if so, how? What are the barriers and needs among MacEwan students with reference to participating in volunteering/community engagement opportunities? In what ways are students benefiting from participating in the volunteering/community engagement opportunities (i.e., have these experiences helped students navigate their career journey, how)? Research participants: MacEwan students who are or have been engaged in MacEwan’s Leadership and Engagement programs and services.

Emerging Indigenous and Racialized Artists Across Canada Research Assistantship

This research project aims to identify the emerging voices in the Canadian art scene, especially those working with new media and deploying interdisciplinary approaches. Further, the project aims to tackle the lack of representation of racialized and Indigenous artists in the field of Art History. In particular, there are gaps in knowledge and understanding of the themes, methodologies, and contributions of BIPOC artists, and research is needed to fill the gaps. I am particularly interested in the Canadian context because recent social movements such as Black Lives Matter, Idle No More and protests over residential schools have had a positive impact on the art world by generating opportunities for racialized and Indigenous artists to participate in residencies, public speaking events, and exhibit their work in artist-run centers, galleries and museums across Canada. Additionally, a number of artists who have not yet found opportunities to exhibit their work in professional art spaces, have developed their own virtual galleries or use social media such as Instagram to promote their work. By looking at the programming of Canadian art spaces and virtual galleries, this research will identify new and rising artists. Moreover, by researching artists' personal accounts and independent groups in social media, the project will fill the institutional gaps. This research will enable me to include the work of emerging Canadian artists of diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds into the Art history curriculum at MacEwan.Outputs:the student will produce an annotated database of emerging racialized and Indigenous artists working in Canada. the student will identify key themes and methods, rather than assuming, as it is often the case, that marginalized artists engage with issues of identity and representation.Outcomes: developing a greater understanding of racialized artists, the themes they engage with, and their contributions to Canadian art history;updating the curriculum of ARTE 304 Theory of Contemporary Art and ARTE 324 History of Interdisciplinary Art at MacEwan;identifying key raising artists that can be included in the exhibition professor Vergara-Vargas will curate in Montreal in May 2024. 

Queer Joy Project Research Assistants for Data Analysis and Knowledge Dissemination (Phase 3)

The student on this project will be part of the The Queer Joy project's exploration of what queer and trans epistemologies about consent and queer joy offer the project to end gender-based violence. This contract is for the first part of the project which will involve engagement in data collection and analysis processes and which may include: helping recruit participants, supporting the process of onboarding participants, assisting with the facilitation of data collection, and analyzing data. The goal of the project is to draw upon queer and trans epistemologies to develop more effective gender-based violence prevention education--and specifically consent education--for all youth.

A Framework for Developing and Assessing Programming Skills using H5P and Moodle Phase #2

Assessing student’s knowledge and skills for programming is often limited to their knowledge of the language and coding ability. Development tools are often an overlooked aspect of programming. Some attempt have been made to add content to courses but it is often difficult to assess student skills through traditional means. Combining H5P content with Moodle offers an interactive way for students to learn, practice, and instructors to assess skills as opposed to assess knowledge. The goal of this project is to design and develop a framework for H5P content for learning and developing skills using tools such as: Vim, Make, and Gdb.

Podcast CCNC & Artful Final Production (Phase #1)

To complete the post production of Artful Conversations Podcast season three. To create the Creative City's Network of Canada second podcast mini-series

TEST PROJECT: Curriculum Design - Mental Health & Wellness

We are looking for students to help develop content and curriculum for online and in person workshops for refugee youth and Women Support Groups, focusing on mental health and wellness, trauma, PTSD, and COVID-19.Students will work on the following:Research mental health issues impacting refugees youth and women from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Syria and SudanWork with staff members to create content for workshops and support group meetingsDesign teaching and training materials to use for virtual and in person workshopsTrain staff members on how to best deliver materials to participants

Level UP: Earth Common Journal - Volume 10 phase 2

Earth Common Journal is creating, developing, and publishing its Volume 9, Issue 1 - "Influence" (2023).Earth Common Journal (ECJ) is an international undergraduate peer-reviewed journal that provides a forum where students communicate a diversity of ideas and information on issues concerning conservation, sustainability, and climate adaptation.ECJ is published by the MacEwan University Bachelor of Communication Studies program. It is published annually each fall, with its inaugural issue released in 2011. The journal accepts articles from all disciplines, and includes research projects that are empirical, qualitative, creative, and interdisciplinary in content and approach. It also accepts articles from students internationally, to provide global perspectives and discussions on conservation, sustainability, and climate adaptation.Students in the disciplines of communication, journalism, editing, media, public relations, and writing are being sought to create this issue.

The Caregivers

The proposed scholarly activity is the development of exploratory research into systems within art and academia and how they interact with the intersections of being a caregiver/mother, artist, and academic within a Canadian context. I will gather research on this topic via a course of interviews with practicing artist-academic-mothers and collecting existing published research on related themes.

Level UP: Earth Common Journal - Volume 10

Earth Common Journal is creating, developing, and publishing its Volume 9, Issue 1 - "Influence" (2023).Earth Common Journal (ECJ) is an international undergraduate peer-reviewed journal that provides a forum where students communicate a diversity of ideas and information on issues concerning conservation, sustainability, and climate adaptation.ECJ is published by the MacEwan University Bachelor of Communication Studies program. It is published annually each fall, with its inaugural issue released in 2011. The journal accepts articles from all disciplines, and includes research projects that are empirical, qualitative, creative, and interdisciplinary in content and approach. It also accepts articles from students internationally, to provide global perspectives and discussions on conservation, sustainability, and climate adaptation.Students in the disciplines of communication, journalism, editing, media, public relations, and writing are being sought to create this issue.

Level UP: Earth Common Journal - Volume 10 Student Editors

Earth Common Journal is creating, developing, and publishing its Volume 9, Issue 1 - "Influence" (2023).Earth Common Journal (ECJ) is an international undergraduate peer-reviewed journal that provides a forum where students communicate a diversity of ideas and information on issues concerning conservation, sustainability, and climate adaptation.ECJ is published by the MacEwan University Bachelor of Communication Studies program. It is published annually each fall, with its inaugural issue released in 2011. The journal accepts articles from all disciplines, and includes research projects that are empirical, qualitative, creative, and interdisciplinary in content and approach. It also accepts articles from students internationally, to provide global perspectives and discussions on conservation, sustainability, and climate adaptation.Students in the disciplines of communication, journalism, editing, media, public relations, and writing are being sought to create this issue.

Use of 360 LIDAR and the ROS Operating System in a Robotics Laboratory Setting

Providing students with both theoretical knowledge and practical skills is desired but often limited within a single Robotics course. In addition, some advanced algorithms (such as SLAM - simultaneous location and mapping) might not fit within the contents of an entry level course however the topics can still provide great teaching value in terms of engagement and interest. The question becomes how to incorporate difficult topics without overwhelming students. The goal of this project is to design and develop a modular framework for using the Robotic Operating System (ROS) and a 360 LIDAR for teaching robotic localization within the computer science curriculum.

Spatial Documentation of Fraser Lake Fur Trade Post

The main goal of this project is to spatially document information on changes in the position and lay-out of the fur trade post called Fraser Lake Post, British Columbia (AKA Fort Fraser). As is typical of fur trade posts, Fraser Lake Post underwent cycles in its operation, periodically closing and reopening in a different location, as well as being frequently remodeled and repaired. The faculty researcher has various nineteenth and early twentieth century maps, photographs and written descriptions of the layout of the fort, as well as historical and modern aerial images of the vicinity of its locations. The student research assistant will georeference images of the fort and help the researcher to relate the images to descriptions of changes in the fort’s location.

A Scoping Review on the Knowledge Gaps in the Current Literature Critical Race Theory and Anti-Black Racism Framework in Social Work Education, Research, and Practice

This proposed research is a scoping review. This type of methodology seeks to undertake a comprehensive search of the breadth and scope of all available literature pertaining to the research topic and question. The main purpose of conducting a scoping study is to identify gaps in existing literature, to summarize and synthesize research findings from existing literature. The data will be amassed from published peer-reviewed academic publications in English from 2000 to 2022 through key word searches such as ‘social work and critical race theory and education,’ and ‘social work and anti-Black racism and research’ in order to extract relevant data. Some of the electronic databases that would be used are EBSCO and ProQuest. The abstract of articles will be reviewed to ensure they meet the keyword search criteria. Those that are not a good fit will be eliminated at this stage. This process will be followed by an extensive review of the articles’ content to complete the final selection of eligible articles. This will be followed by the charting of emergent themes. The scoping review will be concluded with a written report of the findings.

Level UP C and E design for ML upgrade phase 3

Develop graphics and images for the ML symplicity upgrade

Queer Joy Project Research Assistants for Data Collection and Analysis (Phase 2)

The student on this project will be part of the The Queer Joy project's exploration of what queer and trans epistemologies about consent and queer joy offer the project to end gender-based violence. This contract is for the first part of the project which will involve engagement in data collection and analysis processes and which may include: helping recruit participants, supporting the process of onboarding participants, assisting with the facilitation of data collection, and analyzing data. The goal of the project is to draw upon queer and trans epistemologies to develop more effective gender-based violence prevention education--and specifically consent education--for all youth.