History | Faculty of Graduate Studies (FGS) /gradstudies Tue, 05 Dec 2023 19:29:03 +0000 en-CA hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 91ŃÇÉ« PhD candidate receives History of Medicine & Healthcare Award /gradstudies/2023/11/27/phd-candidate-receives-ams-hmh-award/ Mon, 27 Nov 2023 16:50:00 +0000 /gradstudies/?p=54298

Congratulations to Jody Hodgins, PhD candidate in the Department of History, for receiving the Doctoral Research Award from the Associated Medical Services (AMS) History of Medicine and Healthcare (HMH) program.

Since the 1970s, AMS Healthcare, with the help of many partners, has worked to elevate the History of Healthcare’s standing in the academic community and beyond. The AMS History of Healthcare Awards Program promotes scholarship, teaching and public interest in the history of healthcare, disease and medicine. Healthcare professionals, students and researchers can apply for three types of awards: Post-Doctoral Fellowships of $45,000, Doctoral Research Awards of $25,000, and Project Grants of up to $10,000. The program aspires to convene networks, develop leaders and fund crucial activities in medical history, healthcare research, education and clinical practice.

Hodgins is one of eleven 2023 research grant and fellowship award recipients selected by an expert review panel. These outstanding scholars will act as leaders to enhance the impact and value of the History of Healthcare research in Canada and beyond as well as a source of lessons that will help shape Canadian healthcare in the future.

“I am grateful to AMS Healthcare for their support of the History of Medicine community and honoured to receive this award alongside such a company,” shares Hodgins.

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Jody Hodgins

Her project, titled “Meeting Demands for Animal Healthcare: Veterinary Medicine in Rural Southern Ontario, 1862-1939,” will explore the interdependence between animal, human and environmental health to show advancements in public health and the role veterinary medicine had in shaping our current understanding of modern medicine and healthcare practices. 

Hodgins examines four key developments that occurred between 1862, marking the establishment of the Ontario Veterinary College, and 1939: 1) the production of animal health knowledge in popular sources; 2) the need for veterinary intervention with unrecognizable diseases that could transfer from animals to humans; 3) the popularity of quack medicine; and 4) the technological advancements available with the rise of professionalization.

“I am thankful for this opportunity and the support of my Supervisor, Sean Kheraj, and committee members, Jennifer Bonnell and Colin Coates, whose invaluable guidance will help me to contribute a history of veterinary medicine that offers a better understanding of how people living in rural communities managed health before professional veterinarians were quickly available and affordable in rural environments,” says Hodgins.

The funding for the 2024 AMS awards will open on January 8, 2024, with over 250K available. For more information on the awards please visit . 

]]> Professor Anne MacLennan receives 2022-2023 FGS Teaching Award /gradstudies/2023/03/14/professor-anne-maclennan-receives-2022-2023-fgs-teaching-award/ Tue, 14 Mar 2023 20:45:48 +0000 /gradstudies/?p=50723

This year’s Faculty of Graduate Studies’ Teaching Award recipient is Professor Anne MacLennan from the Graduate Programs in Communication & Culture, History and Interdisciplinary Studies. The award, which is bestowed annually on a member of FGS, recognizes teaching and supervisory excellence, as well as scholarly, professional and teaching developments and initiatives in the graduate program and curriculum development.

Vice-Provost Academic, Lyndon Martin, presented the award on March 2nd at the Faculty Council, praising MacLennan’s passion for educating. “I would like to extend my personal thanks and gratitude for your many contributions to graduate education, and in particular the excellent teaching and mentorship you have provided to our community.”

Letters of nomination applauded MacLennan’s pedagogical style, with many of her students noting her exceptional way of teaching them to push their own thinking and to work collaboratively to build ideas. The referees recalled her techniques and approaches that positively changed their relation to graduate study and enhanced their skill proficiency in various dissemination formats from grant writing to syllabus design to conference presentations, to articles, to the dissertation.

“It is wonderful to be honoured with the Faculty of Graduate Studies’ Faculty Teaching Award,” shares MacLennan. “Working with our graduate students at 91ŃÇÉ« is a very rewarding experience. Their research and work makes positive changes in the world and contributes tremendously to research. I enjoy being part of their journeys!”

Also in attendance was Dean and Associate Vice-Provost Graduate, Thomas Loebel, who also commended MacLennan’s exemplary work.

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Anne MacLennan

“I think that the heart of Dr. MacLennan’s highly effective and award-winning teaching is that she rivals even the best of clinicians at teaching students over the course of their degrees, both from work inside and outside the classroom – which is also to say, with a wealth of scholarly material and experiential development, but also as an interlocutor anywhere – how to locate the source of their confidence as scholar-people and to build it rightly and ethically with others.”

MacLennan is teaching her 40th distinct course in 2023 and over the years has supervised more than 30 MA and 6 PhD students to completion, as well as one postdoctoral fellow. With over twenty years of experience teaching communication studies, media studies, history, methodology and other interdisciplinary topics, she helps all students in the program whenever they need support, ranging from scholarship and award applications to thesis and dissertation proposals. Moreover, when MacLennan was the GPD of Communication and Culture, she led the program’s restructuring of the curriculum to incorporate professional development opportunities into formal courses, permitting skills-based approaches to flourish while facilitating opportunities for interdisciplinary growth amongst students.

Zoom capture of FGS Council meeting with Vice-Provost Academic Lyndon Martin, Dean & Associate Vice-Provost Graduate Thomas Loebel and Professor Anne MacLennan

Outside the classroom, MacLennan continues to be an inspiration to her students, contributing widely to the academic community. She has been published in many recognized journals and has given 125 presentations at conferences. Additionally, MacLennan served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Radio & Audio Media from 2017 to 2021. Her current work, a book manuscript in progress, is a study of the program listings of seven cities across Canada during the 1930s to explain the distinct element of local non-network radio and the changes across the country as national network radio is put in place in stages. 

Previously, MacLennan has been awarded the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching (Tenure/Tenure-Track Stream) for 2020-21 and the University-Wide Teaching Award in 2006. 

MacLennan inherently represents the FGS Teaching Award's dedication to substantial, significant and sustained excellence, commitment and enthusiasm to the multifaceted aspects of teaching at the graduate level at 91ŃÇÉ«.

Learn more about FGS’ Faculty Teaching Award | yorku.ca/gradstudies/faculty-staff/academic-affairs/teaching-award/







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