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Thursday, September 22, 2022

Dr. Paul Mkandawire, recipient of Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR) grant

Congratulations to Dr. Paul Mkandawire (principal investigator) and Drs. Leila Angod and Evelyn Mayanja (co-investigators) who won a prestigious Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR) grant (September 2022) for a project titled  'Engaging Black women to address HIV/AIDS in Ontario'. The project is grounded in critical population health and... More

Thursday, September 22, 2022

Dr. Julia Sinclair-Palm & Westley Partington co-present at the People’s Names: Identities & Equalities symposium

Dr. Julia Sinclair-Palm & Westley Partington co-presented a paper titled “Finding Joy in a Name: Trans youths’ experiences of names & naming practices,” at the People's Names: Identities & Equalities symposium in September 2022 under the auspices of the People's Names Research... More

Thursday, September 22, 2022

Co-authored article by Dr. Julia Sinclair-Palm and Kit Chokly (M.A. Communications) in the Journal of LGBT Youth

Co-authored article by Dr. Julia Sinclair Palm and Kit Chokly titled “ ‘It’s a giant faux pas’: exploring young trans people’s beliefs about deadnaming and the term deadname,” Journal of LGBT Youth (May 2022). Here’s the link to the article: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19361653.2022.2076182... More

Wednesday, September 21, 2022

Teacher’s College/Grad School bound? Join Julia Sinclair-Palm for advice on how to apply

Are you interested in Teacher’s College and/or Graduate school? Join Dr. Julia Sinclair-Palm to discuss how to construct a strong application. No pre-registration required. Here’s the zoom information for the event: September 26th, 6 to 7:30pm https://carleton-ca.zoom.us/j/96787127316... More

Friday, September 16, 2022

Coming Soon! Launch of MOCHI Website

Coming Soon! Launch of MOCHI website on September 17th, World Cleanup Day! MOCHI is a SSHRC-funded project on affect, climate crisis, and youth lead by Dr. Stefania Maggi (Childhood and Youth Studies). For more information about the project and the launch, please visit mochi4theplanet.com.... More

Friday, September 16, 2022

Dr. Evelyn Mayanja, recipient of the prestigious New Frontiers in Research Fund

Dr. Evelyn Mayanja, the newest faculty member to join the Human Rights & Social Justice Program, is the recipient of the prestigious New Frontiers in Research Fund awarded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council. Her project title is “Going Green? Counting the true cost of minerals for renewable energy in the era... More

Friday, September 16, 2022

Testimonios of community: empowering Latinx and Portuguese youth in a Toronto-based academic program

Dr. Alexandra Arraiz Matute, faculty member in the Childhood and Youth Studies program, has recently published a new article titled, “Testimonios of community: empowering Latinx and Portuguese youth in a Toronto-based academic program,” Race, Ethnicity and Education (2022): 1-16.... More

Friday, September 16, 2022

Did you know? Dr. Leila Angod, Childhood and Youth Studies Program……

Did you know? Dr. Leila Angod (Childhood and Youth Studies Program) is the Co-Chair of Carleton’s Racialized and Indigenous Faculty Alliance (RIFA). In 2021–2022 she was awarded the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences’ Early Career Research Award and the RIFA Research Award for her youth participatory action research project on Afro-Asian... More

Friday, September 16, 2022

Learning to Enact Canadian Exceptionalism: The Failure of Voluntourism as Social Justice Education

Dr. Leila Angod, faculty member in the Childhood and Youth Studies program, has recently published a new article titled, “Learning to Enact Canadian Exceptionalism: The Failure of Voluntourism as Social Justice Education,” Equity & Excellent in Education (2022).... More

Friday, September 16, 2022

Covid-19 pandemic: lessons from the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Southern Africa

Human Rights & Social Justice faculty, Drs. Paul Mkandawire and Shazia Sadaf co-published an article titled, “Covid-19 pandemic: lessons from the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Southern Africa,” African Geographical Review (2022):... More

Friday, September 16, 2022

Qualitative Visual Methods in Research with Girls and Women with Disabilities in the Global South

Childhood and Youth Studies faculty member, Dr. Xuan Thuy Nguyen has published a chapter titled, “Qualitative Visual Methods in Research with Girls and Women with Disabilities in the Global South,” in the recently published anthology, Handbook of Disability: Critical Thought and Social Change in a Globalizing World.... More

Friday, May 20, 2022

J. Carlisle Hanson Essay Contest Winners 2022

The Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies extends its sincere congratulations to the two winners of the J. Carlisle Hanson Essay Contest for 2022. The adjudication committee selected Fiona Doyle for her essay titled "Threading the Contribution of Indigenous Women to Socioenvironmental Praxis and Resistance” and Sidney Kamerbeek for her essay... More

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