Research News

New and renewed Canada Research Chairs at forefront of important, future-defining research

York University has gained four new and three renewed Canada Research Chairs (CRC). Professors Antony Chum, Arash Habibi Lashkari, Kohitij Kar and Liya Ma received new CRC appointments and Professors Christopher Caputo, Raymond W.M. Kwong and Regina Rini had their CRCs renewed. Among these researchers and new appointments, Arash Habibi Lashkari and Regina Rini are from the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies. Arash Habibi Lashkari is […]

Research Chair in Philosophy earns fellowship from National Endowment for the Humanities

Jacob Beck, associate professor and York Research Chair in Philosophy, won a US$60,000 fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) in recognition of the novel research carried out in his project “Minds without Language,” which closely examines the process of human thought. As stated in its press release on Jan. 10, the NEH launched […]

Declaration offers important consensus for reparations for survivors of conflict-related sexual violence

Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) Professors Anna M. Agathangelou and Annie Bunting co-led and co-organized an international conference in November 2021 that led to the recently completed survivor-centred Kinshasa Declaration. “Kinshasa Declaration,” a collaboratively developed, survivor-centred document on the right to reparation and co-creation for survivors of sexual and gender-based violence in conflict situations. The Kinshasa Declaration […]

CIFAL York to bring youth leaders, changemakers together to create SDG action plans at Congress

Congress 2023, hosted by York University and the Federation for Humanities and Social Sciences, is coming to campus in May and CIFAL York is leading an event that will start new conversations on achieving social and environmental justice. The event’s theme, Reckonings and Re-Imaginings, explores ways of changing belief systems and imagining a radically different world that is safe, equitable […]

‘Pandemic urbanism’ among topics examined at sociology research presentation event

Professors S. Harris Ali, from Faculty of LA&PS Department of Sociology, and Roger Keil, of the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, are co-authors, with Creighton Connolly, of Pandemic Urbanism: Infectious Diseases on a Planet of Cities (Wiley, 2023) to be featured at a sociology research presentation on Jan. 25 from noon to 2 p.m. The event will focus […]

LA&PS public policy professor launches new book on problem solving in South Korea

Thomas Klassen, author and professor at the School of Public Policy and Administration at York University, is the co-editor of a newly published book that examines how governments in South Korea solve problems. Titled, Policy Analysis in South Korea (Policy Press, 2023), the book studies how public policies and programs that lessen or resolve social, economic and […]

New book explores how COVID-19 has changed business supply chain

A new book edited by Professor Hassan Qudrat-Ullah provides research results and shares experiences in the area of supply chain management in a post-pandemic world. Qudrat-Ullah, who teaches in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies’ School of Administrative Studies, researches dynamic decision making, system dynamics modelling, computer-simulated interactive learning environments, and energy planning models. The […]

Symposium highlights global health research of Dahdaleh grad students

Four graduate students at York University’s Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research will showcase their work on Dec. 14 at the Keele Campus. The students – Eric Asempah, Hillary Birch, Yuliya Chorna and Nilanjana Ganguli – will present their global health research, share more about their research journeys and discuss their progress during the third annual Global Health Graduate Scholars Symposium. The […]

York professors co-author introductory book on machine learning

A new book that explores how machine learning can be applied to decision-making in practical settings is co-authored by three York faculty members along with a colleague from Ontario Health. The textbook titled Machine Learning for Practical Decision Making: A Multidisciplinary Perspective with Applications from Healthcare, Engineering & Business Analytics offers real-life examples for novice readers with no […]

LA&PS researcher warns online consumers to read fine print

If you are a regular online shopper, you probably scoured Cyber Monday deals with eagle eyes. But did you also carefully go through the privacy policies you were consenting to before clicking “I Agree” on those business-to-consumer websites and apps? People tend to ignore the fine print in online Terms of Service (ToS) contracts, according […]