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Thursday, October 27, 2022

Marylynn Steckley Receives Prestigious OCUFA Teaching Award

Marylynn Steckley (Arthur Kroeger College of Public Affairs) has been named one of two recipients of the 2022 Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations (OCUFA) Teaching Awards – the highest honour an educator can receive in the province. Steckley has been a leader in her approach to international experiential learning and... More

Wednesday, June 22, 2022

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Tuesday, June 7, 2022

BGInS Student Receives Provost Scholar Award

Provost and Vice-President (Academic) Jerry Tomberlin and Associate Vice-President (Teaching and Learning) David Hornsby, along with the Faculty Deans, presented 10 undergraduate Carleton students with Provost Scholar Awards during a virtual event on Wednesday, May 4. Funded by the Office of the Provost and Vice-President (Academic) and... More

Wednesday, January 26, 2022

BGInS Graduate, Monica Lung, Awarded the Susan Strange Prize for the Best Dissertation in the MSc International Economic Policy

Monica Lung graduated from the BGInS program in Spring 2019. After completing the program with a specialization in Global Law and Social Justice, Monica went on to study at Sciences Po and the London School of Economics and Political Science. She was recently awarded the Susan Strange Prize for the Best Dissertation in the... More

Tuesday, December 7, 2021

Experiential Learning in the Faculty of Public Affairs

Take a look at FPA's recent article detailing experiential learning experiences during the... More

Monday, November 29, 2021

SSHRC Storytellers Challenge

SSHRC's Storytellers challenges postsecondary students to show Canadians, in up to three minutes or 300 words, how social sciences and humanities research is affecting our lives, our world and our future for the better. The Top 25 finalists win $3000 and the Final Five winners among them win an additional $1000. Click Here for... More

Friday, November 26, 2021

New Faculty Publication! – SMASHING IT: Conversations with Influential Women on Cape Breton Island

  Release of new book SMASHING IT: Conversations with Influential Women on Cape Breton Island In October 2020, in the middle of the COVID pandemic, Amanda McDougall won the position of Mayor of Cape Breton Regional Municipality, becoming the first female to occupy this role. During her campaign and soon after winning the election,... More

Tuesday, October 19, 2021

Faculty Profile: Jennifer Vansteenkiste

Dr. Jennifer Vansteenkiste is a critical feminist geographer whose primary research interests include sustainable community development through social and systemic transformation of institutions and communities. Specifically, she examines Haitian peasant efforts to decolonize and make critical and strategic contributions to food sovereignty in... More

Monday, October 18, 2021

Innovative Health Research at Carleton – Professor Marylynn Steckley

Check out Professor Marylynn Steckley's research on food sovereignty in Haiti. Her research, supported by funding through the Canadian Institute of Health Research Project Grant program, focuses on performing a "holistic assessment of health, including the gendered dimensions of access to healthy food, nutrition, land and social relationships... More

Friday, September 10, 2021

Experiential Learning Opportunities for Fall 2021 – Form Submission Due September 17

We have an exciting opportunity for students who are interested in gender-based violence issues. Our Visiting Fellow this year, Dr. Dean Laplonge, is the head of Factive Consulting, a firm that develops plans for NGO’s and corporations for prevention of gender-based violence in workplaces and communities around the world. Dr. Laplonge is... More

Thursday, May 27, 2021

New Minor in Community Engagement

Hello BGInS Students, We would like to let you know that our program is part of a new Minor in Community Engagement. Further information about the Minor is provided below. Minor in Community Engagement https://carleton.ca/socanth/coming-fall-2021-minor-in-community-engagement/    ... More

Monday, April 5, 2021

Indigenous Rights and Biodiversity Conservation in Belize

In this podcast episode, Professor Peter Andrée speaks with Cristina Coc, Executive Director of the Julian Cho Society and Spokesperson for the Toledo Alcaldes Association/Maya Leaders Alliance, and Filiberto Penados, Chair, Julian Cho Society about the connections between Indigenous rights and biodiversity conservation. They take a closer look... More

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