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September 22, 2020

Professor Jeff Sahadeo Awarded the Taylor and Francis Book Prize

Voices from the Soviet Edge (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2019) has won the 2020 Canadian Association of Slavists/Taylor and Francis Book Prize. Sponsored by Taylor and Francis Publishers, the... More

August 31, 2020

SPPA Students Launch Academic Journal in Digital Format

In July, faculty, alumni and students met virtually to celebrate the launch of the first digitized version of the Carleton Perspective on Public Policy (CPoPP) journal, now in its sixth... More

August 31, 2020

Insight Development Grant 2020: Political campaigning and vote choice in digital India

Election campaigns and election results have long been dissected and examined by scholars—at least in western nations. But consider India, where the 2014 election victory of Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist... More

August 31, 2020

Insight Development Grant 2020: Traffic, judges and immigration decisions

We’ve all been there: getting into the office with temper frayed by traffic in the morning commute, and woe betide any colleague in the way of a restorative cup of... More

August 31, 2020

Insight Development Grant 2020: Public libraries as social service gateways

When Edmonton Public Library hired outreach workers to help vulnerable clients in 2011, it was in the vanguard of an evolution in library programming. Nearly 10 years later, at least... More

August 31, 2020

Insight Development Grant 2020: A framework for augmented reality use in language learning

Pokémon Go, the popular game of 2016, was the wider world’s introduction to augmented reality (AR): players looked at their smartphone’s live camera feed and saw virtual Pokémon characters overlaid... More

August 10, 2020

Partnership Engage Grant 2020: Exploring the accessibility of health services for seniors from emerging ethnic...

Partnership Engage Grant 2020: Exploring the accessibility of health services for seniors from emerging ethnic minority communities

When you’re seeking health care in Ottawa, ethnicity matters—especially if you’re a senior from an ethnic minority group. Studies have established that ethnic minority seniors lack access to services in... More

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August 10, 2020

Partnership Engage Grant 2020: Re-thinking refugee resettlement and integration with a culturally-based trauma intervention

Localization is a new movement in humanitarian aid that seeks to create a more equitable and authentic collaboration between international not-for-profits and on-the-ground organizations, and it’s at the heart of... More