Gerson Scheidweiler: Advancing Sexual Health Rights of Venezuelan Refugees

Dr. Gerson Scheidweiler holds a PhD in communication from the University of Brasilia and is a recipient of the LA&PS Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (2021-2022). His research is supervised by Professor Yvonne Su from the Department of Equity Studies, LA&PS. Dr. Scheidweiler’s research aims to contribute towards evidence-informed policy by helping international funders and local governments […]

Duygu Biricik Gulseren: On Employee Wellness, Productivity and Chronic Pain

School of Human Resources Management (SHRM) Professor Duygu Biricik Gulseren’s research focuses on healthy and safe work (e.g., leading healthy workplaces, chronic pain at work, work-life-health interface) and leadership (e.g., transformational leadership, abusive supervision, leadership development). Her recent article on creating psychologically healthy workplaces explores the relationship between leadership and mental health mediated by psychological […]

Jonathan A. Obar : Knowledge Mobilization on Enabling Meaningful Online Consent

Jonathan A. Obar is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication & Media Studies. His teaching and research focus on information and communication policy, and the relationship between digital technologies, civil liberties, and the inclusiveness of public cultures. Prof. Obar is currently leading a knowledge mobilization effort focused on building awareness among policymakers, platforms, […]

Adrian Shubert honoured with a Special High Decoration from His Majesty, the King of Spain

Prof. Adrian Shubert is a University Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at York University. He is a historian of Spain in the 18th through 20th centuries, and his articles and books have been published widely in both English and Spanish. Prof. Shubert was recently honoured with a Special High Decoration from His Majesty […]

Canada’s Rights Role in Sub-Saharan Africa (CARRISSA) : Research & Dissemination Network Workshop

CARRISSA is a three-year interdisciplinary and multi-country SSHRC-funded partnership development grant project focusing on collaborative research between Canadian government/non- government actors and African countries (Nigeria, South Africa, Congo, Ghana, Tanzania, Cameroun, and Kenya). The project is co-directed by Professor Sylvia Bawa (LA&PS) and Professor Obiora Okafor (the Edward B Burling Chair in International Law, John […]

Natalie Coulter: KidTech, Childhood and Digital Capitalism

Associate Professor (Department of Communication and Media Studies, LA&PS) and Director of the Institute of Digital Literacies (IRDL) at York University, Natalie Coulter’s research investigates critical issues pertaining to young people’s media cultures, focusing on the ways in which advertising, marketing and the media construct young people, and how young people respond, engage and negotiate […]

Book Launch: Breathing Aesthetics by Jean-Thomas Tremblay

LA&PS Professor Jean-Thomas Tremblay’s research and teaching in environmental and sexuality studies span literary, screen, and performance cultures. Their latest book Breathing Aesthetics, releasing in October 2022, shows how minoritarian artists have responded to a crisis in breathing marked by the intensified pollution, weaponization, and monetization of the air from the 1970s onward. Breathing Aesthetics […]

LA&PS Professors Douglas Young and the late Lisa Drummond recognized with book prize

Department of Social Science Urban Studies Professors Douglas Young and the late Lisa Drummond were recognized by the International Planning History Society (IPHS) for their book Socialist and Post-Socialist Urbanisms: Critical Reflections from a Global Perspective. The book was awarded the Third Book Prize, as the best anthology or edited work in planning history written […]

Casey Mecija: Exploring the Queerness of Sound

Casey Mecija is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at LA&PS. Her research focuses on sounds made by and around Filipinx diaspora to theorize a “queer sound” that pervades diasporic sensibilities. Queer sound, according to her, challenges the abjection of the Filipinx body, to demonstrate how the sensorial and affective remainders of […]

Marcello Musto: Exploring Alternatives to Present-Day Capitalism

York Professor in Sociology, Marcello Musto’s research focuses on mobilizing critical thinking and scholarly knowledge to combat growing economic and political crises of contemporary social life. His SSHRC-funded project ‘Alternative Socio- Economic Ideas’ aims to explore the contemporary relevance of social, economic and political alternatives to present-day capitalism. “There is a growing global consensus about […]