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Alberta Health and Wellness literature review for healthy weight in children and youth in Alberta. July-August 2010

Funded by Alberta Health and Wellness
Research partnership with Toma and Bouma Management and Four Worlds Development for healthy weight project. Responsible for international literature review and inter-provincial healthy weight initiatives review.

Workforce and Automation Future Projection in Primary Processing Poultry and Dairy and Food Processing

July 2009-May 2010

Global Leadership Associates, Toma and Bouma Management Consultants & Four Worlds Centre for Development Learning

Marie Gervais, Darrell Toma, Michael Bopp, Judie Bopp

Funded by Farm Credit Canada
Data gathering through response to future scenarios from stakeholders in industry, universities and associations
Results to be disseminated by Farm Credit Canada

Profiles of Immigrant Entrepreneurs

November 2009-January 2011

Funded by Edmonton Business Link
Video interview data collection and comparison of interview themes with current literature in the field
Creation of six immigrant entrepreneur profiles for use in immigrant business promotion and to assist immigrant service providers
Subsequent production of You Tube video clips and immigrant entrepreneur financing and marketing handbooks

DR. A. MARIE GERVAIS

Ph.D., M.Ed., B.Ed.(Bilingual, With Distinction), EC Dip., A.Mus.

Identity and Practice: Intercultural facilitators in the NGO sector explore interstices between cultural identity and practice

Joint pilot research with Dr. Elisabeth Le of Department of Modern Languages, University of Alberta
Ethics review by Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Alberta
Qualitative focus interviews with four employees in Non-Profit sector
Presentation of pilot project findings November 7, 2007 for Grant MacEwan “So What? Research and the Non-Profit Sector” series

Challenges Faced by Visible Minority & Aboriginal Teachers in Alberta Schools

Culture and Religion: Indicators of growth in 5 Baha’i Communities

Survey with combined quantitative and qualitative measures was administered to members of five Baha’i communities in Canada, South Africa, Haiti, Switzerland and Japan.
Findings presented at Association for Baha’i Studies North America conference in San Diego, August, 2008.

Growing Together: Retaining a Diverse Workforce in Northern Alberta (NAARR)

Focused interview research with 15 stakeholders in Business and Industry, Agencies, School-to-work programs, Town/City employment offices and Chambers of Commerce to determine multiple perspectives on retention of a diverse workforce in Northern Alberta.
Report and DVD produced by the Northern Alberta Alliance on Race Relations (NAARR) with Funders: Alberta Human Rights, Citizenship and Multiculturalism Education Fund, Alberta Employment, Immigration and Industry and Alberta Union of Provincial Employees.

Cultural Crossroads Initiative Project, Northern Alberta Alliance on Race Relations (NGO)

Applied research findings from previous projects, Moving Beyond and Equity in Edmonton Schools to development of Cultural Crossroads project via creation of ethnically diverse facilitator team, and bilingual (French/English) training models/materials for culturally responsive practice based on meta-analysis of best practice in North America
Applied research findings of above previous projects to development of resource reviewer/compiler team. Established review criteria, training of review team and compiled, arranged for design, printing and distribution of catalogue of diversity resources for K-3, 4-6, 7-9, 10-12 and teacher resources (catalogue can be viewed on NAARR website)

Program analysis of CAFT’s anti-violence and participatory learning in Haitian schools initiative

Detailed analysis of three years of anti-violence program development, curriculum, delivery, and indicators of growth in Haiti.

Cultural identity and teaching practice of four visible minority teachers in Alberta

Doctoral Student Research

Teacher cultural belief of seven white teachers in Alberta

Characteristics of peace promoting men from 12 countries

Conducted life-story interviews with 12 men from 12 countries to identify characteristics of peace promoting men, for the purpose of informing teaching practice of boys
Presented findings at three academic conferences including Conference of the Chief Justices of the World at City Montessori School Conference Centre, Lucknow, India, December, 2005, unpublished paper

How do junior high students make values decisions through process drama?

Arranged for informed consent from school district, junior high school and 25 vulnerable population research participants for research project
Disseminated research findings via two dramatic performances, one presentation to the school, and one academic presentation, publication in International Journal of Education and the Arts, 2007.