Faculty Research Archives | Faculty of Public and Global Affairs

February 7, 2022

Bridging Knowledge Between Autism and Menopause

Recent research has indicated that menopause may be an especially tumultuous time for autistic people. With the support of a SSHRC Insight Development Grant, Professor Miranda Brady is collaborating with a research team that spans... More

December 1, 2021

Student Diversity and Access to Online Learning in the COVID-19 Pandemic

Professors Doris Buss and Blair Rutherford were both teaching classes when Carleton University quickly pivoted to online learning in March 2020. It wasn’t long before they started to witness the effect the change was having... More

March 15, 2021

Decolonization, National Liberation and Revolutionary Internationalism

“How did decolonization, revolution and racial hierarchies influence 20th century international affairs and what were the consequences?” asks Candace Sobers, a professor in Arthur Kroeger College of Public Affairs’ Bachelor of Global and International Studies... More

January 25, 2021

Helping Refugees to Feel at Home in Canada

“My research is personal,” says Nimo Bokore, a professor in the School of Social Work. “I am a refugee mother who survived seven months of political imprisonment and torture in my birthplace, Ethiopia, during Mengistu... More

April 2, 2020

Shades of Moscow 1991 in our Current Times

Professors who were in the Soviet Union during its collapse remember a time of uncertainty. Political Science Professor Andrea Chandler has been thinking about Moscow lately. She was doing research there as a PhD student... More

April 2, 2020

Economics Researcher Finds Spanish Isolation Policy Reduces COVID-19 Deaths by 95%

Carleton’s Hashmat Khan and Spanish co-author Miguel Casares (Universidad Publica de Navarra) develop a model to study COVID-19 containment measures. Based on an approach that adapts the traditional Susceptible-Infected-Recovered (SIR) methodology for the study of... More

January 30, 2020

Research Takes Grad Students to the Arctic Circle

Last summer, graduate student Jamie Desautels travelled to Gjoa Haven, Nunavut, an Inuit hamlet on King William Island above the Arctic Circle. She was there to conduct focus groups on the importance of “country food”... More

November 28, 2019

The People of the NRA

Last spring, Carleton graduate student Noah Schwartz found himself standing in a booth at the National Rifle Association’s annual meeting in Indianapolis, Indiana. He had come to survey American gun owners and find out more... More

September 27, 2019

Telling Human Stories with Numbers

If most of us were to look at an economic model that represents income inequality and economic growth, we might just see an incomprehensible graph. For economists such as Lynda Khalaf, these models tell complex... More

May 29, 2019

A Computer Chip in Each Hand: Studying Voluntary Cyborgs

Tamara Banbury refers to herself as a “voluntary cyborg”—a term most people have never heard of. “A voluntary cyborg is a person who embeds technology under their skin to augment and enhance their life,” says... More

March 25, 2019

Moving Beyond Intuition: Social Work under the Microscope

What makes someone a helpful social worker—someone clients trust? Is it their thoughtful questions? Their body language? As educators who are preparing students to be professional social workers, Kenta Asakura and Sarah Todd are asking... More

January 31, 2019

The Unexpected Benefits of Beekeeping

An undergraduate research project explores beekeeping as a form of healing for inmates.