A story on Associate Professor Jason Neelis in the Department of Religion and Culture
Across the Faculty of Arts, many scholars are using digital and computing technologies in their research. Below are two examples of Digital Humanities scholarship that are helping us to make sense of the past in new ways.
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Congratulations to the 2024 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Insight Grant and Insight Development Grant recipients in the Faculty of Arts:
The exists to foster research, education, and discussion of the ideas, communities, and histories of Canada. The centre consists of four research “clusters” which focus on specific aspects of Canadian history:
Student-faculty partnerships and public outreach are key goals of the LCSC. Faculty and students work in collaboration on diverse projects and to promote open discussions of historical and contemporary conflicts, identities, and narratives. Each semester, the centre hires students for practical training and paid mentorship opptutinities, and produces academic content for public consumption on various platforms.
The mission of the is to create platforms for debate, research, policy analysis, community engagement, and proposal development related to international migration and mobility at global, national, regional and local scales.
The centre's research focuses on international governance of migration, mobilities, critical border issues, diaspora and development, displacement, labour migration, transnationalism, human security, and migrants’ human and labor rights.
The IMRC fosters research in new policy development and alternative models of managing temporary, circular and permanent forms of international migration. The IMRC also aims to impart findings to government and organizations working in migration and refugee studies.
The studies issues pertaining to the creation, use and representation of public opinion in the policy process. The institute serves as a catalyst to promote individual and collaborative research on these issues.
In addition, the Institute monitors the practices and claims of the public opinion and interest group industries, and serves as an educational resource to the university and the larger community on questions and issues pertaining to those claims and practices.
