André Magord’s principal areas of research are: North America – Francophone and Indigenous minorities, multiculturalism, factors influencing ethnolinguistic vitality as well as epistemology in the social sciences and humanities. He will pursue a project on Francophone oral expression, a sound library of spoken literature fonds collected since 1930 in the rural areas of western central France, in Francophone Canada and in Louisiana.
As one of the most well-known sociologists of religion in France, Yann Raison du Cleuziou pursues comparative research on the transition of Catholicism to minority status in France and Canada. Working with Professor E.-Martin Meunier, his research program offers a different view on the social and political transformations underway in France.
As an expert in knowledge mobilization, Jean-Alain Goudiaby has for years been researching and analysing educational dynamics in Africa and the policies associated with them. His research project examines perspectives on research, and on introductory training on research as experienced in a Senegal-Canada partnership, in collaboration with Nathalie Mondain, a demographer, sociologist, researcher and professor at the University of Ottawa.
Michael Falser is considered one of the most important researchers in a new discipline, namely the global history of architecture. He will pursue comparative research on the tensions that underlie (post)colonial architecture and heritage buildings in Francophone and Germanophone locations, and will launch a new field of research on the globalization of the Francophonie and its architecture in universal expositions.
Opêoluwa Blandine Agbaka is undertaking a research project on heritage policies and their evolution in the Francophonie around the world. She hopes to adopt a cross-cultural perspective on Canada and Africa and highlight the issue of traditional cultures and practices used to conserve heritage in the Francophone world with the aim of creating a typology.
Somnoma Edouard Kaboré will undertake promising research on the development of project management projects in Africa. His research deals with the implementation and evaluation of international development projects in Africa, and specifically on their governance and success.
Nicolas Peyre's research will examine French soft diplomacy in Ottawa and Canada from a Francophone perspective and the global branding of France’s public museums within the Francophonie.