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SSHRC funding has been granted to new research projects involving WICI core members Dawn Parker and Steven Quilley.

Parker, WICI director and professor with University of Waterloo's School of Planning, will be working with Jeff Casello and Markus Moos to examine the pending development of light rail transit in Kitchener-Waterloo, and its affect on core-area intensification and socio-economic change.

Agent-based models (ABMs) are simulation models that have been used to study complex systems in a wide range of academic fields including biology, computer science, environmental science, economics, geography, planning, and sociology among others.

Communitech DATA.BASE, a program funded by FedDev Ontario, Communitech and industry collaborators, was established to develop leading-edge initiatives related to the data services market in southern Ontario. DATA.BASE explores innovative ways to gather, transfer, analyze, fuse and visualize data in various vertical markets.

WICI core member and director Dawn Parker has received new grant funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) via the Digging into Data Challenge (DiD). Read all about the technical elements of this research, and find out about related workshops on our DiD research page.

The fifth instalment of the CCC briefs, titled, What is Power in the Global Climate Negotiations?, is now available on our resources page.