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by Mr. Bojan Fürst
Projects
- Island Landscapes
- Newcomers at the Gates: Place and Space in Small Island Contexts
- Photographers, researchers, and librarians: A love story
- Photography as a Method: What Can Geographers and Social Scientists Learn from Documentary Photographers?
- Viability of Small Island Communities: the Role of Rural Policy in Notre Dame Bay Islands in Newfoundland and Vis and Bisevo islands in Croatia
Opportunities
- Addressing the challenge of recruiting volunteers in the Discovery Zone
- The advantages and disadvantages of concrete roads versus asphalt roads
- Annual Geologist Event in Southwest Newfoundland (Regional Economic Development Zones 9 and 10)
- Antioxidant opportunities for berries and plants
- Apprenticeship System Evolution: Barriers and Opportunities
- Baie Verte Peninsula Multi-Use Port Feasibility Study
- Best Practices Study
- Career Counselling and Labour Market Needs
- CBS residents satisfaction survey
- Cost of production for dairy calves in the Southwest Newfoundland region
- Creating better communications between Memorial Researchers and Lab West communities
- Creating resettlement stories from collected interviews
- Creation of a tourism link between Southwest NL and Cape Breton Island
- Dealing with signage issues in Southwest Newfoundland
- Determine best location for a marina in New-Wes-Valley
- Developing training opportunities for interpreters
- Development of a theatre play about the Granite Coast
- A different policy for different times
- Effective community responses to housing shortages in rural areas
- Engaging youth who NEED services
- Entrepreneurship and business training
- Examination of the cost of interprovincial ferry travel
- Explore the barriers NL small businesses, cultural and heritage organizations face when applying for funding through provincial and national granting bodies
- Exploring mental health self management programs
- Exploring networking mechanisms among local businesses in Southern Labrador
- Exploring regional governance models for Labrador West
- Factors impacting returning migration
- Health issues of post secondary students whose parents work away
- How to better cope with the wind in the wreck house area
- Identification of significant geological sites in Southwest NL
- Identification of traditional Beothuk herbs
- Impact of Trans-Labrador Highway on Labrador traffic flows
- Impacts of long distance commuting on seniors
- Increasing local food production and decreasing importation
- Inventory of plants trees and vegetation
- Inventory of Southern Labrador business opportunities
- Inventory of successful programs and initiatives in terms of healthy eating and food security
- Keeping moose off of the highways in zones 9 and 10
- Labrador West water table modelling
- Leveraging part-time residents as volunteers
- Non-destructive testing for aerospace/marine sectors
- Organized Labor Practises Towards New Entry into Industry
- Passing along traditional crafts to youth
- Placing value on natural resources
- Planning and projecting the economic impacts of mining
- Presenting provincial and federal government with the evidence of social determinants of health
- Quality of life/wage levels for young, rural professionals:
- Recruitment of professionals to rural areas
- Regional health and wellness group
- Research on what motivates older workers to stay in the labor force and the effects on the region
- Researching climate change/impacts on the fish biomass in Trinity and Bonavista Bays
- Researching the social enterprise/co-operative business model as an opportunity for community socio-economic development
- Seniors' program evaluation
- Shipping history of Placentia Bay
- Social enterprise and provision of community based health services
- Statistical survey of seasonal residents in Bonavista region
- Structure and strategies behind the inshore/nearshore fishery
- Study of Impact of Changes to EI System
- Study of the products that are shipped into the province on the Port aux Basques ferry
- Study of the transportation needs of Zones 9 and 10 to Zone 8 (Corner Brook):
- A symposium on community health
- A workshop on social enterprise
Expertise
Mr. Bojan Fürst
Department: The Leslie Harris Centre (STJ)
Geography
- Photography
- Island studies
- Croatia
- Rural landscape
- Rural development