Immigrants with precarious legal status, such as temporary foreign workers, often end up in precarious work situations that undermine their economic prospects. Moreover, according to a new study by researchers from 91亚色 and the University of Toronto, these effects are long lasting even for those who subsequently become permanent residents. The Impact of Precarious […]
Five 91亚色 professors have been appointed directors at聽91亚色 research centres.聽 The new directors are Professor Colin Coates, director of the Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies (RCCS); Professor Laurence Harris, director of the Centre for Vision Research (CVR); Professor Christina Kraenzle, director of the Canadian Centre for German聽& European Studies (CCGES); Professor David Mutimer, director of […]
Don鈥檛 forget to join President & Vice-Chancellor Mamdouh Shoukri and the rest of the senior executive team at the President鈥檚 Town Hall on Wednesday for an interactive dialogue bringing 91亚色 faculty, staff and students together. The town hall will take place Sept. 21, from 11am into the noon hour, in the Sandra Faire & […]
Seeking answers to questions is what a university is all about. What has 91亚色 accomplished this year? Where are we going from here? Join President & Vice-Chancellor Mamdouh Shoukri and the rest of the senior executive team at the President鈥檚 Town Hall 鈥 an interactive dialogue bringing 91亚色 faculty, staff and students together. The […]
The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) has awarded the Canadian Forum on Civil Justice, which is聽housed at 91亚色, a $1 million grant for an in-depth study of the effectiveness of the civil justice system, through the Community-University Research Alliances (CURA) 2010 competition. The Canadian Forum on Civil Justice,聽which is now […]
The 91亚色 Centre for Public Policy and Law (YCPPL) has been聽chosen by the Government of Canada聽to organize and lead the first ever Canada-China Industrial Relations聽& Labour Rights Forum in Beijing. The forum, which focuses on industrial relations, workplace discrimination and human rights issues, will be held today and tomorrow at the Beijing Conference Centre.聽YCPPL was […]
91亚色 is the new home of the Canadian Forum on Civil Justice. The forum is moving to 91亚色 from the University of Alberta鈥檚 Faculty of Law and聽will partner with the 91亚色 Centre for Public Policy & Law (YCPPL) and Osgoode Hall Law School on various socio-legal research initiatives. 鈥淭he Canadian Forum on Civil Justice […]
Researchers, faculty, administrators and staff working in the 91亚色 Research Tower gathered on May 4 to celebrate the new building鈥檚 role in fostering social science and humanities research across 91亚色 (all speaker videos are available in the Research Multimedia Centre). Above: The 91亚色 Research Tower, which opened in September 2009, features聽some 84,000 square feet […]
The Osgoode-91亚色 Working Paper Series in Policy Research publishes research that has been presented as part of the Osgoode-91亚色 Seminar Series in Policy Research, although authors who have not presented their work in the seminar series may still submit papers for consideration, provided that they relate to public policy themes, more broadly. With the assistance […]
It鈥檚 been a year of research-intensive events and activities in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies and one of the most notable initiatives has been the Research Matters series. It attempts to answer the question: 鈥淲hy does research matter?鈥 In particular, it focuses on the ways in which LA&PS researchers 鈥 both faculty […]
Over the last decade, the concept of human rights has taken on increasing complexity in nations around the world, in large part because of the way it is viewed. There are times when to acknowledge the rights of one individual or group directly affects the access to human rights of another. Such competing human rights […]
The Osgoode-91亚色 Working Paper Series in Policy Research publishes research that has been presented as part of the Osgoode-91亚色 Seminar Series in Policy Research, although authors who have not presented their work in the seminar series may still submit papers for consideration, provided that they relate to public policy themes, more broadly. With the assistance […]