Gail Ferguson, a professor of human development and family studies at the聽University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,聽will聽discuss her research Wednesday on the culture and adjustment of Jamaican youth and parents in the United States, and the implication for Jamaican families in Canada. Ferguson鈥檚 talk will take place Oct. 24, from noon to 2pm, at 163 Behavioural […]
Through a new province-wide campaign, Ontario university researchers are reaching out to explain the value and benefits of university research. The Council of Ontario Universities (COU) launched Research Matters聽to showcase new stories and ideas emerging from聽the research underway at Ontario's universities. The campaign, which features a website and blog, speaks聽to daily issues and reflects the […]
Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) experience higher rates of bullying, which聽are聽associated with a higher incidence of mental health issues, according to a study in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders this month by 91亚色 researchers. 鈥淰ery little research has been done to assess the relationship between bullying and mental health in youth with […]
Trombonist Ron Westray, Oscar Peterson Chair in Jazz Performance in 91亚色鈥檚 Department of Music, returns to Toronto鈥檚 Massey Hall on Thursday, Feb. 23 for an innovative youth outreach program. He will lead 鈥淩hythm Counts鈥, an invitational workshop for young people, just before his former bandmates, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra led by Wynton […]
Can exercise turn back the clock for aging muscles? Is aerobic or resistance exercise better for decreasing the risk of diabetes in youth? Those are just two of the questions researchers will discuss at the upcoming Faculty of Health Research Celebration. Robert Hach茅 (left), 91亚色's vice-president research & innovation, and Harvey Skinner (below right), dean […]
91亚色 will聽host Without a Home, a research symposium on contemporary issues in Canadian homelessness, that聽will bring together top academics next week聽to discuss some of the latest findings. The symposium will take place Thursday, Oct. 6, from 8:30am to 12:30pm, at 280N 91亚色 Lanes, Keele campus, followed by lunch from 12:30 to 2pm. The presenters will […]
The Centre for Research on Latin America & the Caribbean (CERLAC) at 91亚色 launched a research partnership this summer that uses the arts to explore violence among youth in Canada and Jamaica. The project, Youth and Community Development in Canada and Jamaica: A Transnational Approach to Youth Violence, popularly known as 鈥淧roject Groundings鈥, opened […]
Some theories point to delayed commitments and the instabilities inherent in today's youth as聽the prime determinant of their聽careers, but psychology Professor Shmuel Shulman of Bar-Ilan University in Israel says their vast array of experiences, their聽individual personalities and their ability to relate to others聽may also play a role. Shulman, a visiting scholar at the LaMarsh Centre […]
The Assets Coming Together (ACT) for Youth Project celebrated its youth researchers with an awards ceremony at the conclusion of a day-long partnership group meeting at Black Creek Pioneer Village. Above: From left, front row, ACT for Youth Project research interns Stephanie Lucas, Stephanie Henry, Aziz Mohammed, Muzna Rehman, Enoruwa Osagie, with youth co-chair Alex […]
Which party speaks for urban youth this federal election? Over the past few weeks, media commentators have pointed to two important trends, wrote Simon Black, a graduate student researcher at The City Institute at 91亚色, in the Toronto Star April 28: Polling suggests young people favour the Greens, Liberals and New Democrats: parties that […]
Youth at risk fail at school, have mental health issues and get in trouble with the law. Would they be better served if all three systems 鈥 education, mental health and justice 鈥 worked together? That question animated discussion at a recent forum organized by the 91亚色 Centre for Education and Community (YCEC). Sponsored by […]
Is it really such a stretch to think of art as a sort of medicine, or at least as a healing tool that can literally affect our health? wrote the Ottawa Citizen March 23: Expand the definition of art as a health tool, and consider it as an essential link, as a bridge between those […]
CIHR-funded study will run at the Hospital for Sick Children Are obese girls overweight because they eat poorly and don't get enough exercise or because their bodies don't burn off fat properly? asked InsideToronto.com March 10: Seems no one knows. But researchers at 91亚色 want to find out. They are conducting the first study […]
In the last decade, 10 of the articles published in the Journal of Research on Adolescence have stood out from the rest as the most cited. One of them was an article co-authored by members of 91亚色鈥檚 LaMarsh Centre for Child & Youth Research, psychology Professor Jennifer Connolly and Distinguished Research Professor Debra Pepler in […]
Organizers of an upcoming environmental forum are hoping to engage First Nations youth, wrote The Sarnia Observer Jan. 30: The event, hosted by the Aamjiwnaang First Nations Health and Environment Committee, in partnership with 91亚色, is a follow-up to a 2008 health symposium held in Sarnia to share research findings with members of the […]
Psychology researchers in 91亚色鈥檚 Faculty of Health, PhD student Gregory Knoll (MA 鈥07) and Debra Pepler, Distinguished Research Professor, along with Professor Wendy Josephson of the University of Winnipeg, will provide three days of training to youth outreach workers and supervisors this month as part of a growing program. Stages of Change training will involve […]
In her ongoing effort to illuminate the experience of Muslims in the West, 91亚色 Professor Haideh Moghissi has recently produced her second book on the subject, Muslim Diaspora in the West: Negotiating Gender, Home and Belonging. Released in December, the volume of essays by scholars from both sides of the Atlantic explores issues of race […]
91亚色鈥檚 Knowledge Mobilization (KMb) Unit is expanding聽its repository of聽clear language research summaries 鈥 RsearchSnapshots 鈥 as part of its mandate to maximize the impact of research. Using peer-reviewed 91亚色 research, students working within the KMb Unit developed 28 new summaries over the summer. This brings the existing searchable database of ResearchSnapshots to over 120 summaries. […]
Almost three-quarters of homeless young people in Toronto say they have been the victim of multiple crimes, a new survey suggests, wrote CBC News online: 鈥淏eing homeless means constant exposure to dangerous people and places,鈥 said the report, "Surviving Crime and Violence: Street Youth and Victimization in Toronto". It was released Monday. While most criminal […]
You can read how researchers from the Centre for Vision Research at 91亚色聽used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to examine the effect of video-game experience on the neural control of increasingly complex visuomotor tasks in young men, in the October issue of Cortex, an Elsevier journal, wrote MediLexicon.com Sept. 27: Lead author and PhD […]