The Investigators will use photovoice methodology and participatory action research methods (Sutton-Brown, 2014) to explore the lived experiences of Humber college students and their well-being and mental health during the Fall 2022 semester. True engagement of Humber learners who are lavishing or thriving in their well-being is valuable for the design and implementation of student support services, as well as teaching and learning across the institution. This qualitative research study will explore the following questions: How does student mental health and well-being impact their academics and co-curricular activities? How do students describe the structural and systemic influences on their mental health and well-being in college? How do students express agency and sense of purpose to protect their mental health in college? Data will be used to build student capacity and improve student care and access to mental health support at post-secondary institutions.

The Caregiver Training Workshop (CTW) Pilot Study – Online Version will consist of six (6) sessions, adapted from the 2019 in-person Caregiver Training Workshop (CTW) Pilot Study, aimed at determining whether the workshop/pilot study’s course design has a relationship to caregiver burden, as well as heightens caregivers’ care abilities at home. Findings from both of the 2019 research intervention, and now, the online version should help to inform next steps regarding online training delivery to family caregivers, either institutionally and/or through community providers.

Closed captions (CC) and Subtitles for the Deaf and Hard of hearing (SDH) are normally applied after a comedic film or television show has been finished. Unfortunately, when CC and SDH are used in this way, they can wreak havoc upon the comedy. Punchlines are telegraphed. The timing and delivery are “stepped on” and, while the CC and SDH succeed in making the material understandable, they can dampen the comedy. In essence, there are two versions of the comedy – a finished version and a second version with CC and SDH. This research investigates methods to be used to incorporate CC and SDH can be used in creative and comedic process, so that accessibility becomes a pillar in the creative elements – writing, performance, production. Research results will be used to discover and develop best practices in the comedy industry and to help teach students how to incorporate accessibility and closed captioning into their creative process.

Equity, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) frameworks are being discussed and implemented across sectors, and meeting diversity leadership objectives in the fire service is no exception. As materials and/or strategies to address EDI become (or have become) available to senior leaders in the fire service, there are prevalent gaps in the knowledge, understanding, education, and training they receive that can be met within the CPL - Fire Service Management Executive Certificate program. To ascertain where those gaps lie, and to service them accordingly, the Investigators will survey senior leaders from departments of varying sizes throughout Ontario to learn whether and which specific issues under the EDI architecture warrant additional education and training.

The Investigators will build a prototype of a sample metaverse learning space in the context of a higher education setting. For example, depending on development with industry partners, they aim to create an “Ideation Meta Space” that will be usable by different disciplines, including FMCA, FAST and International. Courses that have metaverse content will be able to convene in our protoype to ideate further spaces, ideas and expansions. Possible partnership events can be hosted here for programs/ courses, as well as, international collaborations can utilise this space for collaboration. The space will offer programs, faculty and students a blueprint for what is possible and is intended as a starting point for a larger conception that is collective and ever-evolving.

Humber College student writers frequently create exemplary work worthy of publication. This joint FLA-FMCA project provides them with publication opportunities, while also providing opportunities for other students to utilize the editing, communication, and marketing skills they develop in the Creative Book Publishing (CBP) program, the new Bachelor of Professional and Creative Writing (BPCW) program, and the Professional Writing & Communications program (PWC).

The Investigators are exploring the process, technology requirements, and pedagogical considerations needed to sustainably incorporate emerging technologies such as augmented and virtual reality into the curriculum. Through "proof of process" multi-disciplinary research projects they will bring a team of industry stakeholders, students, and faculty from different disciplines together and create a small project that investigates a specific potential opportunity for emerging technology to be incorporated into the curriculum within 1-2 terms. The project's success is measured based on the insights gathered about the challenges and opportunities a specific technology may bring to student learning. Most projects have multiple phases with workshops, faculty professional development, and other opportunities for staff, students, and faculty to engage with the project process as well.

This project will test different approaches to manual control of Dog Strangling Vine in a hands-on real world situation in the Humber Arboretum. The student research assistants will have the opportunity to set up the experimental plots, perform the various manual control methods, collect and analyze the research data and prepare the summary report. They will also have the opportunity to share their findings with the larger community.

In this follow up research project, the Investigators will expand on the tangible programming activities by integrating improved equipment, coding practices, and objectives. These objectives aim to be much more aligned with real-life technology that students use on an everyday basis.

For example, programming students would benefit from developing applications such as: Energy Grid Management, Automated Fulfilment Systems, Traffic Control Software, Autonomous Driving Technology using Machine Learning, Mapping and GPS Applications, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence, Streetview and Smart Parking Systems.

This research will have students develop applications from the list above using a LEGO™ constructed smart city. This environment will provide students with real-world physical computing opportunities at a fraction of the cost.

Since September 2019, the Investigators have been building a library of local cases of sustainability, BIPOC, fashion entrepreneurs (Humber alumni). So far, they have written four (4) such cases of variety of sustainable businesses: black entrepreneur, Sustainable denim entrepreneur, Indian-Canadian fusion wear entrepreneur, home décor entrepreneur. For this project, the Investigators will complete the library with one case on indigenous designer and one on fashion technology - all inspired by Humber alumni. Those cases will then be taught in the classroom in interdisciplinary, international settings through the prism of system design thinking.

The Investigators are exploring how an interactive programming exercise system effects the coding skills of Game Programming students. Students can use the programming exercise system to answer and receive immediate feedback in terms of whether their code works perfectly, suggestions to improve the code, or if there is a syntax error. The following data will be collected as part of the project: the number of active hours a student spends on the online interactive programming exercise system (metric data collected from the platform), the number of attempts a student makes at each question in the exercise system (metric data collected from the platform) and students’ satisfaction with the exercise system (collected from end-of semester survey. The survey will include rating questions as well as short and open-ended questions).

KEFEP-02 is a project led by Humber College (Toronto, Canada), with Sigalagala National Polytechnic as one of the Kenyan partners, which with the administration of College and Institutes Canada -CICan- and the funding of Global Affairs Canada -GAC- has been implemented from 2017 to 2022 and aimed “to develop programs that will help increase employment and economic development opportunities for technical and vocational students in Kenya” (Shah, 2019, para. 2). Thanks to CICan’s formal request, as well as considering the relevance and alignment with the project’s goal and Canada’s Feminist International Assistance Policy, Global Affairs Canada approved the allocation of part of the project budget to the renovation of an SNP’s building to be adapted as a breastfeeding facility, as a pilot in the Polytechnic institution in Kenya.  The first phase of the research aims to determine the process and rationale of the development of SNP’s breastfeeding facility, the level of usability by female students with babies at SNP, and how effective the breastfeeding facility has been at promoting female access to TVET education and decreasing the drop-out rate among mother and pregnant trainees in the Polytechnic institution.

How might we address the change in how business was conducted using reinvention tools to keep a business from failing. Cases are an effective way for students to learn not just theory but have theory applied in real situations. The cases that will be done for this project are based on reinvention methodologies and putting those concepts into practice. The central research question that will be investigated is: How did businesses reinvent themselves during the pandemic so that they would survive and how are they doing it now?

Many post-secondary institutions have created services to support young adults on the autism spectrum transition into their programs. However, these services are seldom comprehensive, typically consisting of a small number of services that are offered immediately before the student enters the school and/or during their enrolment at the school. As well, the services are usually based within the educational institution without the inclusion of community partners. This project will review the existing studies to identify the key elements of a support system for these students, including those services that are offered by community agencies before the potential students are accepted into the college, as well as the services offered by the school.

The aim of this study is to build on previous research that explores how a course in Two-Eyed land-based play and co-learning engages and impacts the spiritual, emotional, intellectual, and physical realities of the learner and faculty. The initial research funded by the Teaching Innovation Fund (2022) explored this with students/faculty in a hybrid course delivery (online and face to face/on the Land due to COVID-restrictions at Humber. The proposed research will explore the research questions with students and faculty in a fully face to face/On the Land delivered course.

It is hoped that this study will contribute to the early learning and play research that is largely dominated by Euro-Western epistemologies and worldviews (Warden, 2017) and demonstrate how Indigenous and non Indigenous educators can share a working relationship where worldviews and knowledge co-exist.