Interactive computer assessments may help foster health equity

Through the use of interactive, computer-assisted health-assessments, Professor Farah Ahmad hopes to foster equity in health care, especially at the intersections of gender, ethnicity and migration. Ahmad will present her research and discuss how embracing eHealth innovations can boost community empowerment as part of the York eHealth Alliance Lecture Series. The lecture, “eHealth Innovations to […]

Professor Thomas Klassen heads to Korea to research and mobilize new labour force policies

Thomas Klassen, a professor in the Department of Political Science and the School of Public Policy & Administration in the Faculty of Liberal & Professional Studies, has been invited to South Korea to be a visiting researcher. Right: Thomas Klassen The Korea Labor Institute has asked Klassen to conduct research on new policies for Korea’s labour force […]

Professor Philipp Angermeyer: Kids + txting rn’t killing the language

The idea that our dependence on technology is ruining the English language is not a new one, wrote The Globe and Mail Aug. 11: Members of the media, linguists and grammar gurus are on both sides, pushing and pulling over the implications associated with texting, blogging and e-mailing. Many who think language is being flushed […]

Professor Thomas Klassen: South Korea’s population targeted to be ‘most elderly’ by 2025

By 2050, the median age in Korea is projected to be 57 years, according to an article written by Thomas Klassen of York University’s Department of Political Science in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies. The article was published January 12, 2010 for GlobalBrief.ca, but was quoted in fastcompany.com's July 29 article about […]

Researcher and City Institute director shifts the lens to suburbs around the globe

The suburbs have often been dismissed as cultureless wastelands of cookie-cutter housing and strip malls. But York environmental studies Professor Roger Keil, principal investigator of a major international research initiative, says there’s a lot more happening in suburbia than people think and researchers have ignored it for far too long. Most urban growth these days […]