{"id":2973,"date":"2025-11-07T09:52:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T14:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cspsc\/cutheme-homepage\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T08:04:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T13:04:11","slug":"cutheme-homepage","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cspsc\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre for Studies on Poverty and Social Citizenship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-max  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n        \n                    \n                    \n            \n    <div class=\"cu-wideimage relative flex items-center justify-center mx-auto px-8 overflow-hidden md:px-16 rounded-xl not-prose  my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 bg-opacity-50 bg-cover bg-cu-black-50 py-24 md:py-28 lg:py-36 xl:py-48\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cspsc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/174\/cspsclogoexcerpt3-768x336.png); background-position: 50% 50%;\">\n\n                    <div class=\"absolute top-0 w-full h-screen\" style=\"background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.600);\"><\/div>\n        \n        <div class=\"relative z-[2] max-w-4xl w-full flex flex-col items-center gap-2 cu-wideimage-image cu-zero-first-last\">\n            <header class=\"mx-auto mb-6 text-center text-white cu-pageheader cu-component-updated cu-pageheader--center md:mb-12\">\n\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold mb-2 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] cu-pageheader--center text-center mx-auto after:left-px\">\n                        Centre for Studies on Poverty and Social Citizenship\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                    \n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-16018d1d wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cspsc\/requestsfaculty\/\">Apply &#8211; Research Projects \u2192<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cspsc\/request-student\/\">Apply &#8211; Student Conferences \u2192<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n                            <\/header>\n        <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    \n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p><strong class=\"myprefix-text-bold\">The Centre for Studies on Poverty and Social Citizenship (CSPSC)&nbsp;<\/strong>supports the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socialwork\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Carleton School of Social Work<\/a>&nbsp;in generating critical and innovative knowledge about inequality and social exclusion&nbsp;that can be used to inform social work education, policy and practice.\u202f We understand that poverty disproportionately impacts marginalized communities including, but not limited to racialized and Indigenous communities. CSPSC\u2019s work is aimed at ensuring a basic standard of social justice, community engagement and social citizenship for all.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"objectives\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Objectives&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The main objectives of the Centre include:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Primarily, to support and promote research conducted within the Carleton School of Social Work (SSW) relating to matters of poverty and social citizenship&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>To partner with external faculty, researchers and non-profits devoted to promoting poverty reduction and social citizenship through research and outreach activities including presentations, workshops, forums and other educational events&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>To provide research opportunities for social work students interested in poverty reduction and social citizenship by creating research assistant positions and\/or by supporting SSW student research through student participation in conferences, workshops, and written\/published work&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>To support new, ongoing and innovative research work in the Carleton School of Social Work (SSW)&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    \n\n\n\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white cu-section--cards ml-offset-center  md:px-8 lg:px-14\" 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