Success Stories

Winter 2021 

This project sought to see wow could we redesign urban cores in Durham Region to entice people to rediscover their downtowns, and how this takes into account social distancing requirements in a COVID-19 world.

Winter 2021

Many newcomers to Canada consider opening their own businesses. The purpose of this project was to explore this at a local level in Durham Region and be able to create an ecosystem of support for newcomer entrepreneurs. This included researching:

• What motivates newcomers in Durham Region towards entrepreneurship?
• What resources do newcomers currently use to aid their plans for entrepreneurship?
• What challenges and strengths do newcomer entrepreneurs encounter?
• What pushes newcomers...

Winter 2021

Creating awareness and uptake of information related to Climate Change and Sustainability, such as the Climate Action Project, is key to mitigating the effects of climate change.

The purpose of this project was to have students perform research and develop ideas for creating awareness around climate change curriculum.

Winter 2021

Child care is flexible when it meets the needs of parents who work non-standard or variable hours. The purpose of this project was to investigate how we offer flexible child care in Durham  Region and balance the needs of families with cost efficiency.

Fall 2021

There is considerable difficulty in measuring the health of Durham Region’s economy. Traditional methods of measuring economic growth and activity (such as GDP) are not available for Durham Region, so we often rely on numerous individual data points to get a sense of how the economy is performing. However, these data points often run in contradiction to one another (e.g. high unemployment and strong housing sales/prices) making it difficult to draw any conclusions on the state of the...