Université de Moncton

Research Capabilities

Administration - Moncton

Administration

Organizational behaviour, gender and leadership, female entrepreneurship, family enterprise and transmission
Supply chain management, international logistics management, quantitative methods (Management Sciences), project management and operations and technology management
Human resources management; labour relations; organizational engagement; organizational change and work organization; employee satisfaction
Innovation, entrepreneurship, growth strategy, organizational design, technology trajectories, business networks, small and medium-sized enterprises, cooperatives
Marketing in a context of sustainable development; sustainable development of tourism, especially the hotel industry; corporate social responsibility (RSO) in SMEs; customer satisfaction; environmentally responsible consumers; international marketing
Relationship marketing, experiential marketing, consumer behaviour, online services, banking
Approximate optimization models, forestry optimization, production management, inventory management
Occupational and organizational psychology, management, human resources management, staffing, coaching, corporate training, change management, organizational assessment and diagnosis, organizational development, work climate
Corporate strategy, competitive strategies, strategic alliances, M&A, international strategy, corporate governance, creativity management

Business administration

Interactive and social processes of innovation and eco-innovation – socio-technical transitions to sustainability – models and tools for strategic management of sustainable development and corporate social responsibility – business ethics – SME management and entrepreneurship – organisational theories – qualitative methods

Accounting

Management accounting, sustainable development
Financial Accounting and Audit
Management Control, Management Accounting, IAS/IFRS Accounting Standards, Financial Statement Analysis, Contingency Theory for Performance Measurement, NPO Performance Measurement System, municipal performance indicators
International accounting standards, corporate financial communications policies, financial statement analysis, governance and financial performance, manipulations of accounting data
Business combinations and accounting theory

Finance

Financial risk assessment and management
Financial management; investment choice; banking internationalisation
Corporate governance; stock option plans; executive compensation; cash management; initiation transactions
Corporate governance; board operations and impact; corporate social responsibility; growth of credit unions in the context of developing countries

Operational Management

Optimum design of production systems – Optimization of reliability and maintenance. – Evaluation of system performance. – Heuristics and Metaheuristics. – Discrete optimization methods

Organizational Information Systems

E-learning (e-learning) and SMEs, internet/ intranet/ extranet, systems analysis, IT project management and database
Theoretical foundations of organisational information systems (IS), strategic and economic aspects of organisational IS and information technology, management of organizational IS development, analysis and design of OIS and e-business applications, web and object-oriented programming principles, organizational IS project management, knowledge management and business intelligence
organizational IS Theory, organizational IS Analysis and Design, organizational IS Programming, Internet/Intranet/Extranet and Web Development, E-learning, IT Adoption and Dissemination, IT Management

Arts and Social Sciences - Moncton

Public administration

Canadian public administration; public policy; economic development
Public policy analysis, instrument approach, institutional approach, deliberative democracy, decision-making, interest-based approach (policy networks), contemporary governance and the role of government, public budgeting, research methodology
Well-being at work; work-life balance; new work organizations; new workplaces; distance working; third-party workplaces (coworking, living lab and labs); collaborative innovations; social innovations; social economy; the commons
Health system reform; governance; public policy; networked organization
Population health, determinants of obesity, population nutrition, public policy, obesogenic environment

English

19th and early 20th century English Canadian literature; fantasy literature; drama; Charles G.D. Roberts (1860-1943)
Canadian literature compared; romantic genre; literary history of cultural nationalism in the nineteenth century

Communication

Francophone media studies, media analysis in developing countries, journalism, international journalism, science journalism, audio-visual production, radio and television antenna management, crisis communication

Criminology

Criminology, polygamy in Canada, religion and crime; crime and group functioning; consent and sexual deviance; criminal discontinuance or changes in criminal career
Criminology; juvenile delinquency; criminal policy; minors at risk; criminal justice; criminal sociology; criminal law of minors; comparative criminal law

Economy

Economic development; Cooperative economy; International economy; Public economy; Regional economy; Social economy
Economics of natural resources and the environment, microeconomic theory, applied econometrics, industrial organisation, contract theory, forestry economics
Natural resources, energy and environmental economics; international economy; political economy; economic growth and development; public finance; applied microeconomy

Environment

Environmental policies; environmental sociology; energy sector – environment and development; multinational companies; political economy – social networks; quantitative methods; qualitative methods and participatory research

Spanish

Linguistics (formal semantics, syntax, language acquisition)

Geography

Economic and rural geography, regional disparities, territorial development, demographic ageing, social economy
Applied physical geography, environmental monitoring, climate change, natural hazards, watershed management

History

History of France (16001800); history of law; rural history
History of contemporary Europe
Social and Economic History, Canada / Maritimes, 1867 to present
History; Colonial Acadia; Canada; French Atlantic
History; middle ages; state; elites; prosopography; politics; justice; networks
Research in the comparative history of popular myths and beliefs (marginalities and popular cultures)

Linguistics

Bilingualism – multilingualism; language contact; bi-multilingual development and behaviour; comparative languages and cultures; conversational analysis; computerized and statistical analysis of textual data; Acadian sociolinguistics; Armenian sociolinguistics; Canadian immigration, Aboriginal language and cultures
Description of contemporary Acadian French (especially in its morphosyntaxic and more widely discursive dimension)history of Acadian linguistics in order to establish a historiography of the ancient and modern works published on French spoken in Acadia; study of representations and ideologies in scholarly texts
Immigration, linguistics
Sociolinguistics (dialectology); historical linguistics; lexicology and lexicography; philology; lexicon, pragmatic and morphosyntaxic systems of Acadian French

Literature

Acadian literature, French literatures of Canada, space and literature, sociology of literature, France Daigle, J. R. Lévéillé
20th century French literature; Quebec literature; Louis-Ferdinand Céline; Germaine Guèvremont; genre theory; novel theory; figure theory
Quebec literature, intercultural approach to literary analysis
Quebec literature; literary relations between Quebec and the United States; representations of the North American Francophonie
Poetry; textual analysis; literary creation; 20th century Acadian literature
Text/image relations; 19th century French literature; study of references to visual arts in 19th century French literature and Acadian literature

Music

Clarinet (20th century music) chamber music saxophone musical analysis
Music education
Lute, classical guitar, musicology (baroque music), harmony, counterpoint
Musicology (Middle Ages and Renaissance), historical counterpoint, paleography and codicology
Piano
Musical theory and composition

Philosophy

Ancient philosophy and German philosophy
Spirit Philosophy, Epistemology and Buddhist Philosophy
Political, social and moral philosophy

Political science

Comparative politics and Francophonie; migration and politics

Law - Moncton

Law

Administrative, comparative and contract law
Intellectual property law, insolvency and bankruptcy law, claims and collateral law
Health law, medical ethics, forensic epistemology, responsibilities (professional, tort, criminal)
Environmental law, natural resource law, insurance law, children’s law, human rights, legal drafting
International law, theory of law and philosophy

Engineering - Moncton

Civil engineering

In-situ testing; soil-structure interaction; foundations; finite element methods; plasticity; fracture mechanics; road geotechnics
Hydrology, Environmental Engineering
Hydrology, hydrogeology, hydrological modelling, women in science and engineering
Fluid-structure interactions; structural dynamics; structural optimization; experimental and numerical wind simulation around buildings; experimental and numerical snow simulation on buildings

Electrical engineering

High frequency integrated circuits (MMIC): coplanar technology, GaAs, GaN. genetic algorithms, particle swarm optimization, neural networks. Signal processing (ADV signals, LDV) in wind tunnel
Automatic control, wireless RFID and sensors, mechatronics, ambient intelligence, industrial automation, manufacturing, systems simulation, operations management and scheduling, discrete event systems
Electric motor control, energy optimization in industrial electronic AC motors, system control
Power electronics, renewable energies, multiobjective multicriteria optimization of energy systems, implementation of control algorithms with and without sensors in VLSI technology (FPGAS and DSPS)
Electronics and intelligent systems; telecommunications and fibre optics; microcontrollers and embedded software; smart homes and energy management; light-emitting diode lighting; assessment of the qualifications required in engineering programs
Diffractive elements, optical interconnections, wave-guided therapeutic methods, optics and multimedia, hybrid fibre/wireless systems, optical fibre networks, optical design, optical aberrations, biomedical engineering and electronic network learning
Identification and control of piezoelectric motors; design of non-linear controllers for variable speed engines and drives; implementation in real time using DSPS; development of specialized electrical engineering software
Kinematics of parallel manipulators, synthesis of parallel manipulators, kinematic redundancy in parallel manipulators
Ergonomics, Musculoskeletal Diseases (MSD), Biomechanics and Human Upper Limb Movement Analysis, Work Study, Human

Science - Moncton

Biochemistry

Non-coding RNAs, brain tumours, cold adaptation, biomarker identification, molecular biology
Inflammatory arthritis, microparticles, inflammatory mediators
Biochemistry, organelle, autophagy, cell death mechanism, cancer, kidney, tumor suppression gene, targeted therapy, chemotherapy
Immunology; oncology; apoptosis; cell biology; molecular biology; gene regulation and expression; RNA biology; intracellular signalling; cell activation; gene therapy; transcription factors; Pax5; lymphocyte B, PD1
Metabolism of polyunsaturated fatty acids; lipid mediators of inflammation; regulation of 5-lipoxygenase; leukocytes
Mitochondria, cellular physiology, oxidative stress, aging, evolution, diet, diabetes

Biology

Evolutionary biology, molecular and cellular biology, genomics and bioinformatics, population genetics, non-coding DNA, genome stability, cytogenetics
Molecular biology of steroidogenesis, transcriptional regulation, molecular endocrinology, gonadal physiology, obesity
Plant biology; plant/micro-organism interactions; molecular biology; genomics; bioinformatics
Northern and temperate ecology; wildlife management and conservation; trophic interactions; mammalogy; biostatistics; theoretical ecology
Polar ecology, food webs, predator-prey relationship, modelling, biodiversity and biogeography, biostatistics, environmental monitoring, molecular ecology, animal behaviour, capture-marking-recapture, dispersion monitoring, ecological and traditional knowledge
Terrestrial ecology, entomology, plant interactions / herbivores / natural enemies and biocontrol
Marine invertebrates (polychaetes, molluscs, crustaceans); larval ecology; hydrosedimentary processes; population dynamics; marine ecosystems
Marine invertebrates; physiological responses to human and natural stresses in bivalve aquaculture; bivalve feeding; winter physiology; sustainable development
Metabolism; bioenergetic; proteomics; mitochondrial physiology; signalling; mitochondrial dynamics; mitochondrial diseases; phosphorylation
Fish physiology; protein metabolism; single carbon unit metabolism; creatine metabolism
Physiology of stress in aquatic animals; nutrition in aquatic animals; development of alternative ingredients for aquaculture

Chemistry

Catalysis, nanomaterials, radical chemistry, photochemistry and university education
Environmental chemistry; environmental science; aquatic ecosystem contaminant dynamics; bioaccumulation mechanisms; ecotoxicology
Medicinal chemistry and organic synthesis
Organic chemistry, catalysis and kinetics
Organic chemistry; homogeneous catalysis; heterogeneous catalysis; catalysis in water; organometallic; green chemistry; oxidation; reduction; hydrogenation; coupling; pharmaceuticals, thin layers, and nanomaterials
Organometallic and coordination chemistry; inert atmosphere chemistry; bio-polymers, biodegradable composites; nuclear magnetic resonance, high-performance liquid chromatography Behaviour of organic matter in the environment and development of methods for organic matter
Design, development and properties of nanoporous materials for applications in nanotechnology, biotechnology, medicine and information technology. Raman and FTIR micro-spectroscopy, theoretical and practical aspects
The fate of metal contaminants in the environment

Environment

Territorial development; participation; concertation; governance; integrated coastal zone management; adaptation to climate change
Wind; solar; biomass; small hydro; climate change; resource assessment and public policy
Influence of watershed transformation and climate variability on water quality and aquatic food chains (biodiversity, phytoplankton and zooplankton productivity) various approaches including palaeoecology, stable isotope analysis and landscape ecology

Information Management

Human interaction system, language industry, electronic and mobile services, ubiquity and artificial intelligence, interactive technologies for assisting people with special needs, green information technology, telecommunications and business, RFID technology, biometrics and information security
Information management, strategic organizational resource: strategic intelligence and communication, knowledge management, competitive intelligence, Forward-looking; comparative approach to models and information systems to support competitiveness
Research in Acadian institutional religious heritage; documentary, ethical and political management of information; classification and operation of Acadian documentary holdings; private archival archives including corporate and religious archives

Computer Science

Parallel architectures, distributed systems, real-time systems, RDP modeling, Internet applications
Medical imaging, digital angiography and ultrasound, deformable models, optical flow, image processing
Signal and image processing, computer vision and internet technologies
Computer vision, machine learning, Deep Learning, infrared imaging, robotics (industrial, drones), intelligent systems, high performance computing

Mathematics

Combinatorics, statistical mechanics, graph theory, Weights of Mayer and Ree-Hoover, method of graph homomorphisms and polynomial Ehrhart
Mixed finite elements, hybridization, flow of viscoelastic fluids, non-newtonian fluids, singularities, mesh refinement
Numerical methods, finite element method, solid mechanics, large deformation materials, industrial applications
Mathematical modeling; general relativity; unitary theory of theoretical physics; Casimir effect; development and application of mathematics based on the notion of inverse compos; studies of vibrations and new musical instruments; number theory
Extreme value theory, Bayesian approaches, CJCR methods. Areas of application: statistical hydrology, climate change and health
Functional model of continuous matches; factor regression; analysis

Health Sciences and Community Services - Moncton

Family studies

Financial resource management; textiles; clothing; clothing behaviour; educational approaches; family studies

Kinesiology

Safe driving; human physiology; autonomous nervous system; psychobiology; aging; rehabilitation
Physical education and sport, human psychomotor skills, sports training, tennis
Workplace wellness; abuse and homophobia in sport; sport for international development
Health and physical activity

Recreation (Leisure)

Recreation planning and fit-up, development needs and skills of recreational workers
Natural and cultural heritage tourism; tourism amenities; museum visitors; national parks visitors; recreation; therapeutic recreation; recreation and seniors; recreation and persons with disabilities; recreation and special groups
Tourism; Economic Benefits; Recreation, Sports and Tourism Marketing

Nutrition

Iron deficiency during pregnancy; impact of maternal impairment on the iron status of the child and on the development of the central nervous system of the offspring; effects on metabolism of essential fatty acids and eiccosanoids of the brain and the processes of learning and memory of offspring
Nutrition and aging, LTC meal experience, nutrition screening and assessment, institutional factors and risk of malnutrition in LTC, quality of life of the elderly
Public, community and international nutrition, infant and young child nutrition, nutrition policies, food security and multi-sectoral approaches
Nutrition; carcinogenesis; obesity; aging

Psychology

Human cognition and perception, modeling, same-different task, accumulation models, quantitative method education, decision making, artificial neural network
Social cognition, development, reading, emotional facial expressions, eye movements
Development of cognitive foundations of reading and arithmetic; learning disabilities in reading and arithmetic
Early adult development; couple relationships: marriage and cohabitation; parent role: parental satisfaction, work-family conflict, parental alliance; clinical psychology; determinants of psychological health
Mental illness (depression, anxiety disorders and post-traumatic stress), chronic diseases (heart, diabetes, kidney failure, cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease-COPD), lifestyle (tobacco, physical activity, nutrition), gender/sex and health (gender differences), health prevention and promotion, primary care
Adult clinical neuropsychology (e.g., Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia) and psychopathology
Neurosciences, experimental neuropsychology, neuroanatomy, behavioural studies, animal psychopharmacology and electrophysiology. Education neuroscience and human electrophysiology
Child clinical psychology; school psychology (bullying and school climate, neurodevelopmental disorders, intellectual giftedness)
Clinical Psychology of Emerging Adults and Adults, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) anxiety and depression, self-managed treatments, telepsychotherapy
Cognitive psychology: working memory and reading
Family psychology; couple psychology; psychopathology
Differential psychology, individual differences in cognitive, psychometric and cognitive development
Occupational and organizational psychology (industrial/organizational), leadership, individual differences and the world of work, person-work fit, positive organizational psychology
Social psychology, parenting roles, traditional and egalitarian attitudes in the couple, paternal involvement, health psychology
Intergroup relations, employment equity programs and traditional and contemporary biases
Child and youth mental health, cognitive effectiveness, neuropsychology

Nursing

Development of knowledge based on the thought of becoming human (family, community, nursing practice), existential perspective, universal phenomena «to have faith», «to trust another», «to feel at home», “feeling strong”, “suffering”, “feeling at peace”, “doing the right thing”
Domain of aging, in particular the dimensions of home support and aging in linguistic minority communities; community health; qualitative research
Children with chronic health problems, educational approaches and the health of francophones in minority communities. Wellness in the Workplace
Nursing work environment, recruitment and retention of new graduates
Management of adult cardiovascular risk factors; changing health behaviours; adapted, iterative and customized computerized feedback system
Health promotion and disease prevention, public health, community health, Aboriginal health and adolescent health
Acute and critical adult care, reading club, success

Clinical Sciences

Community health, nutrition and physical activity in childhood and adolescence, behavioural sciences, influence of the physical and social environment, obesity prevention, health promotion interventions

Food Science

Food, nutrition and health; chronic disease prevention; food security (SA); sustainable development, local and international: SA and environment, sustainability in agriculture and food, industrial ecology and food, ecohealth; nutrition and food safety; characterization/enhancement/enhancement of bioproducts and food products; agri-food technologies (engineering graduate)
Microbiology, biotechnology and agri-food, biochemistry, molecular biology, lactic fermentations, probiotics, nutraceuticals, lytic protein purification, food technology
Physico-chemistry and microbiology of dairy products. Bacterial fermentations in bioreactors, bioencapsulation and production of ferments in mixed culture

Education Sciences - Moncton

Education

Accompaniment and modelling of identity changes, evaluation methods and valorisation of interventions in guidance psychology, representations and stereotypes related to professions, intercultural competence in education and guidance, competence in vocational and personal guidance
School adaptation, resource teaching, teacher collaboration and school inclusion
Education administration and school management; foundations of education administration; scientific research methodology in education administration; legal aspects of education; vocational learning community; school and community; leadership and authority; quality management in education; supervision of education
Interpersonal communication, group facilitation, interpersonal dimension of education, mentoring relationship in education
Life-Career Counselling, Interpersonal Communication, Group Facilitation, Personal Effectiveness and Resilience in Individuals in Orientation-Reorientation, Integration-Reintegration, Adaptation-vocational rehabilitation
Geography to High School; History to High School; Humanities to Elementary; Citizenship Education; University Pedagogy; Intercultural
Mathematics Teaching (Elementary and Secondary); Math Gifted Children; Learning and ICT; Digital Skills; New Trends in Education; Comparative Education/Education Systems
Visual Arts Teaching in Elementary and Secondary Education; Archival Arts Teaching; History of Visual Arts Teaching in Acadia; Ethno-Aesthetic Approach; Acadian Culture; Program Development Portfolio. Creative process. Historical methodologies. Qualitative methods
Mathematics teaching; development of mathematical reasoning; use of online communication tools in mathematics courses; difficulties/barriers faced by students in mathematics; course planning; assessment of learnings
Science Teaching, Science Learning and Teaching in High School (9-12), Science Language Development, Science Interests Development
Teaching French in primary; writing process in mother tongue and second language; teaching from reading to primary
Effective schools, school administration, teaching effectiveness, poverty and academic achievement
Environmental Education (Developing a Family Environmental Competency); Ecophenomenology; Exploiting ICT in Education; Nature Science Teaching; Motivation and Classroom Management
Francization; integration of language in other school subjects; French teaching; reading comprehension; minority language education
Inclusive schooling; inclusive pedagogies and practices; legislation and policies related to inclusive schooling
Integration of artistic and cognitive approaches in the minority Francophone context; qualitative research methodology, epistemological and ontological aspects; heuristics, hermeneutics, inventive and holistic paradigm; contemplative practices and human ecology in the context of globalization; notions of balance, movement and health in pedagogy and physical work; alternative pedagogies and awareness-raising
Educational leadership in Francophone and Acadian minority communities, learning and teaching, elementary education, principals in Francophone minority communities: training, leadership and creativity
Education philosophy; fundamentals of education; critical thinking; citizenship education
Learning disabilities; diagnostic assessment; behavioural problems; rehabilitation

Arts and Literature - Shippagan

Linguistics

Linguistics, Semiotics, Semiology, Anthropology and Ethnology
Sociolinguistics; languages and social inequalities; linguistic ideologies and representations; identity building; Acadian studies

Literature

Acadian studies Francophone literature; literary history; sociological formalism
French and Hispanic Studies

Semantics

Writing, linguistics, semantics, onomastics, textual semantics and lexical, semantic analysis of digital products

Education, Kinesiology and Recreational Management - Shippagan