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2020-21 Research in Review | Research Chairs in LA&PS

The LA&PS Research Office is committed to research excellence, community-engaged scholarship, and supporting knowledge mobilization and research impact. In this “Research in Review” series, we’re celebrating significant research achievements for 2020-21, including major awards, external grants and funding for a new generation of emerging researchers. Research in Review COVID-19 Research Inaugural Black Scholars Research Fund […]

2020-21 Research in Review | Inaugural Black Scholars Research Fund

The LA&PS Research Office is committed to research excellence, community-engaged scholarship, and supporting knowledge mobilization and research impact. In this “Research in Review” series, we’re celebrating significant research achievements for 2020-21, including major awards, external grants and funding for a new generation of emerging researchers. Research in Review COVID-19 Research Research Chairs in LA&PS New […]

2020-21 Research in Review | COVID-19 Research

The LA&PS Research Office is committed to research excellence, community-engaged scholarship, and supporting knowledge mobilization and research impact. In this “Research in Review” series, we’re celebrating significant research achievements for 2020-21, including major awards, external grants and funding for a new generation of emerging researchers. Research in Review Inaugural Black Scholars Research Fund Research Chairs […]

Diklah Frishman’s path from York student to communications pro

Welcome to LA&PS Through the Ages, where, each month, we talk to longtime members of the LA&PS community about how they got to York University, what their roles are like and even some of their fondest York memories. This month’s post is all about Diklah Frishman, a Communication & Website Assistant. A lover of film […]

Canada’s stringent screenings for medical transition ignore gender-related perspectives and experiences

Canada’s stringent eligibility screenings for medical transition – to prevent “regret” or detransition – ignore transgender people’s gender-related perspectives and experiences, says LA&PS Professor Kinnon R. MacKinnon, lead author of a new study. It’s impossible for anyone to know with 100 per cent certainty how they will feel after transformative medical interventions such as gender-affirming hormones, […]

2020-21 Research in Review | LA&PS celebrates student research excellence

The LA&PS Research Office is committed to research excellence, community-engaged scholarship, and supporting knowledge mobilization and research impact. In this “Research in Review” series, we’re celebrating significant research achievements for 2020-21, including major awards, external grants and funding for a new generation of emerging researchers. Research in Review COVID-19 Research Inaugural Black Scholars Research Fund […]

LA&PS names new special advisor on student success

The Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) is furthering its commitment to student success with the appointment of a special advisor who will work closely with Associate Dean Students Michele Johnson. Professor Daniel Kikulwe will be taking on the role of Special Advisor on Student Success. An associate professor in the School of Social Work, […]

Canadian Writers in Person features Katłįà (Catherine) Lafferty, Dec. 7

If you love meeting talented writers and hearing them read their published work, or just want to soak up a unique cultural experience, don’t miss the Canadian Writers in Person Lecture Series, which continues Dec. 7 with a reading from Katłįà (Catherine) Lafferty’s debut novel, Land-Water-Sky/Ndè–Tı–Yat’a (Fernwood Publishing, 2020). The series gives attendees an opportunity […]

Risk management and evacuation planning represent key aspects in volcano crisis

Over the past decade, Ali Asgary, associate professor of disaster and emergency management in York University’s School of Administrative Studies, has been running an annual emergency exercise training and is involved in field research on Vulcano Island in Italy alongside an international team organized and led by the University of Geneva. Most recently, the team […]

Criminology Professor James Sheptycki receives Allen Austin Bartholomew Award

York University Criminology Professor James Sheptycki is the recipient of the 2021 Allen Austin Bartholomew Award for best-published paper of the year by the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology for his essay titled “The Politics of Policing a Pandemic Panic.” The essay was completed in early April 2020 and published during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic […]