Archives: Student Research

Wednesday, May 19, 2021

Samira Amid Wins Summer 2021 EDI Research Award

The Department of Law and Legal Studies is pleased to announce that undergraduate student Samira Amid is a recipient of a 2021 Carleton University Student Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Award valued at $10,000. Congratulations! Samira’s winning research project is entitled A Qualitative Study of the Relationship Between Police and... More

Wednesday, December 16, 2020

CUROP: Systemic Barriers to Social and Legal Support in Ottawa

Collaboration between Law Professor and Public Affairs and Policy Management BA Student Each year, Undergraduate students in the Faculty of Public Affairs have the opportunity to pursue a summer research project of their choice under the guidance of a Carleton faculty member through the Carleton University Research Opportunity Program (CUROP).... More

Monday, February 13, 2017

PhD Candidate Awarded HRN Research Grant

Congratulations to PhD candidate Jay Ramasubramanyam, who has been awarded a research grant from the Humanitarian Response Network (HRN) to support his cutting-edge research on global humanitarian issues! With new drivers of displacement gaining prominence worldwide, there has been a push for an impending need to include evolving grounds of... More

Monday, March 21, 2016

Undergraduate Research Spotlight: Khadija Ahmed

Thanks to 1125@Carleton and its spotlight on undergraduate research conducted by Khadija Ahmed, a fourth-year student who is completing a Combined Honours in Law (with a concentration in Transnational Law and Human Rights) and Women's and Gender studies. Khadija is a member of this year's cohort of the Born Social Fellowship, a program... More

Thursday, December 4, 2014

PhD Candidate Wins New Sun Graduate Bursary

Congratulations to PhD candidate Kanatase Horn, who has been awarded a New Sun Graduate Bursary! Mr. Horn's research focuses on Aboriginal over-representation in the criminal justice system in urban contexts (with a focus on the city of Ottawa). More specifically, he is focusing on restorative justice/alternative justice programs, and their... More

Thursday, September 11, 2014

PhD Legal Studies student Safiyah Rochelle awarded OGS

Congratulations to PhD Legal Studies student Safiyah Rochelle, who has recently been awarded an Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS)! Safiyah's research interests include the construction of racialized bodies within legal regimes, legal imaginaries and knowledge, and violence and visuality. Her current project focuses on... More

Tuesday, September 9, 2014

PhD Legal Studies student Jessi Ring awarded OGS

Congratulations to PhD Legal Studies student Jessi Ring, who has recently been awarded an Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS)! Jessi's primary research interest involves focusing upon feminist engagement in technology and digital spaces. Currently, her work is focused on analyzing ‘The Hacker Ethic’—a set of practices and ideals that define... More

Friday, October 4, 2013

MA Legal Studies Student Wins Oxford University Book Prize

Congratulations to MA Legal Studies student, Alexa Dodge! Her paper entitled, “Genital Culture: Exploring the Cultural Importance of Genital Surgery in the West” received the Oxford University Book prize for best paper on a feminist legal theory topic. As part of this prize, Dodge receives $200 towards books from Oxford University Press. In... More

Monday, April 1, 2013

MA Legal Studies Candidate Rosemary Parker Awarded Ontario Graduate Scholarship

In her Ontario Graduate Scholarship-winning research proposal, MA Legal Studies candidate Rosemary Parker suggests that the historical myth of the Arctic as a mysterious, masculine, unknowable space is currently being challenged by a diverse range of human and environmental factors. She proposes that these changes have provided an opportunity for... More

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