Fall 2018 Volume 9 Issue 2
Prentice Post Director’s Note
Inside this issue:
Fall 2018 has seen much activity in the Prentice Institute. In addition to our active research agendas, we have hosted a public outreach panel at the Lethbridge Public Library and had four very well attended and topical Prentice Brown Bag lectures. Information on both the panel and these talks is provided in this issue of the Prentice Post. As well, a routine Quality Assurance (the U’s terminology) review of the Prentice Institute is ongoing. This is the first review of a research institute at U of L. A self-study review committee led by Associate Director, Alexander Darku, aided by Prentice Research Affiliates Glenda Bonifacio and Trevor Harrison, developed a Self-Study document. The Self-Study outlines our many successes and our many ongoing challenges. We are all hopeful that the review will be a welcome opportunity for the University to address the challenges and constraints which the Prentice Institute
ahead with the important work we to the world, to Canada, and to the University of Lethbridge’s strategic plans. our successes are many and our outreach global. This shows the interest and impact that our neutral, peer-reviewed research is having on the world stage. It is Prentice Institute as an important centre for That said, the constraints and challenges remain. We wish you and yours a happy holiday season and all the best for 2019. Susan McDaniel, Ph.D., FRSC Director, Prentice Institute for Global Population & Economy Prentice Research Chair & Professor of Sociology Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Global Population & Life Course (2011-14 only when U of L took the CRC away due to lack of SSHRC allocation)
Alexander Darku to Present PUBlic Professor Series | The Building Blocks of Africa's Development: Resources, Politics, and Economics Coming on January 24, 2019, Prentice Institute Associate Director Alexander Darku is the presenter of the Public Professor lecture held at Sandman Signature Lethbridge Lodge from 7-9 pm. Seating is free, though limited. The African development efforts have gone through sharp turns and twists since the dawn of independence in the late 1950s. In this presentation, that have driven Africa’s growth and development through its resources, political, and economic building blocks in three different periods. Lessons from these analyses point to the politicians, business elites and the electorates, as the critical pillars for the building blocks of Africa’s development. (See the related article on Darku’s academic work in Africa on page 2)
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Director’s Note
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Public Professor talk
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Alexander’s work in Ghana
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Recently Published Articles
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Brown Bags Fall Term
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Appointments, Awards & Accolades
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Public Panel Discussion
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Mission Statement
The Prentice Institute excels at researching the changing human population and its potential impacts on social and economic issues, and communicating its findings widely. The Prentice Institute and its research collaborators seek to understand longterm changes in the human and economic environments, within a historical context, with particular attention to the role human actions play in influencing those outcomes. We conduct and integrate research on the dynamics of Canadian and global demography and their impacts on economic wellbeing through migration, culture, trade and natural resource availability. We communicate widely the output of our work and that of others to stimulate further research and to enable individuals, governments, and corporations to make better-informed decisions. We educate students and future researchers.
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Alexander Darku Diasporan Fellow in Ghana From April to July 2018, Prentice
The impact of his physical presence in Ghana likely provided inspiration and a tangible example of the international impacts and range of experiences possible for those that
Alexander Darku was in Ghana of Economics at the University of Ghana. There he formed research collaborations, mentored students as a member of several graduate supervisory committees, and taught a course in Advanced Macroeconomics to Ghanain MA & PhD. students. While there he worked out plans to partner on research which will look at the significance of Aid for Trade (AfT) initiatives intended to improve trade relationship among regional trading blocks in Africa. His work keeps fresh the connection to the real world contributions that he
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as faculty in Canada can make to the quality of education in the field of economics in Africa. MA students on their thesis question development and providing support and supervision to several doctoral students.
In this sense his time in Ghana this year widens the path to success for others who can in turn benefit the communities and nations from whence they come. This example may help others aspire to persevere to make their contributions through qualifying to do research that can lead to better-
and the world.
Recent Books by Prentice Institute Research Affiliates
Maura Hanrahan, Unchained Man : The Arctic Life and Times of Captain Robert Abram Bartlett
Glenda Bonifacio, (Editor) Gender, Feminism and Global Cross-Cultural Connections : Canadian and international perspectives
Glenda Bonifacio, (Editor) Women and Religion: Contemporary and Future Challenges in the Global Era
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Yale Belanger, Ways of Knowing: An Introduction to Native Studies in Canada, 3rd Edition
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Post Doctoral Fellow to Teach Course in Asian Studies. Kamrul Islam, a cur r ent PostDoctoral Fellow from Bangladesh, will be teaching a course in Asian Studies in Spring 2019. His course will be Population Dynamics in South Asia ASIA 3850. The course aims to examine various aspects of population dynamics in South Asia including trends and determinants and mortality patterns, impacts of migration, population aging, and maternal and child health status. The course will also examine the extent to which combined use of indigenous knowledge and technology has achieved remarkable success in disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation in South Asia while ensuring food security for the large populations even in the context of frequent disasters. Finally, challenges associated with ensuring women`s empowerment, dealing with refugee crises, and achieving the UN`s Sustainable Development Goals in South Asia will be discussed from a policy perspective. This is the first time that one of our Prentice Institute post-docs has offered a course in the new Asian Studies program. Previous post-docs, most all of whom teach a one-term course during their two-year post-doc as part of their rounded training for academic positions, have taught in Sociology (various courses) and in Health Sciences.
Next Brown Bag Lectures January 18, 2019 Cheryl Currie, Associate Professor of Health Sciences, Alberta Innovates Translational Chair in Aboriginal Health and Well-Being, and Prentice Research Affiliate
Selected Recently Published Ar ticles By Prentice Research Affiliates Olu Awasoga Awosoga, O., Pijl, E. M., Hagen, B., Hall, B., Sajobi, T., & Spenceley, S. (2018). Development and validation of the Moral Distress in Dementia Care Survey instrument. Journal of advanced nursing, 74(11), 2685-2700. Sedgwick, M., Sedgwick, N., Awosoga, O., Grigg, L., Dersch, S. (2018). An exploratory mixed methods study of urban and rural registered nurses' experience of clinical reasoning. Journal of Nursing Education and Practice. Vol.8, No. 4 DOI: 10.5430/ jnep.v8n4p70 Sajobi TT, Meng W, Awosoga O, Santana M, Southern D, Liang Z, Gailbraith D, Wilton SB, Hude Quan, Graham MM, James MT, Ghali WA, Knudtson ML, Norris C. (2018). Trajectories of health-related quality of life in coronary artery disease. Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes 11:e003661. Print ISSN: 1941-7705. DOI: 10.1161/CIRCOUTCOMES.117.003661 Online ISSN: 1941-7713 Tolulope T. Sajobi, Guowei Li, Oluwagbohunmi Awosoga, Michael D. Hill, Lehana Thabane (2018). A comparison of meta-analytic methods for synthesizing evidence from explanatory and pragmatic trials. Systematic Reviews 7:19. DOI: 10.1186/s13643-017-0668-3 and SYSR-D-17-00181 Yale Belanger Belanger, Y. D., Dekruyf, K. A., & Walker, R. C. (2018). Calgary, Canada: Policy co-production and indigenous development in urban settings. In Global Planning Innovations for Urban Sustainability (pp. 28-41). Routledge. Belanger, Y. (2018). First Nations Gaming in Canada: Gauging Past and Ongoing Development. Journal of Law and Social Policy, 30(1), 175-184. Cheryl Currie Motz T, Currie CL. Racially-motivated housing discrimination experienced by Indigenous post-secondary students in Canada: Impacts on PTSD symptomology (forthcoming). Willoughby T, Doan J, Currie CL, Copeland JL. Short-term changes in daily movement influence salivary C-reactive protein in healthy and Metabolism 2018; Ghazalian, Pascal L. 2018. "Canada's Beef Exports: Border Effects and Prospects for Market Access." Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics, Forthcoming. Pascal Ghazalian Cardwell, on Bilateral Aid Allocation Decisions." World Development, 106, 136-148.
February 15, 2019 Syed Hammad Ali, Doctoral student , Sociology, University of Calgary
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Prentice Institute Brown Bag Talks Presented (a ll a re Prentice Research Affiliates)
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Border as Archive: Reframing the crisis mode of governance at the Canada-US border Julie Young, 26 October Since January 2017, there has been an increase in the number of people crossing “irregularly” from the US to make a claim for refugee status in Canada. Dr. Young examines the longer histories and wider geopolitics of these contested crossings of the Canada-US border that have been characterized as a moment of crisis in official and media responses. (video recording) https://youtu.be/WBaZggWhN6Q
An Evolving Geography of Income Inequality: Socio-Spatial Differences between the “Three Cities” of Calgary Ivan Townshend, 2 November An overview of patterns of rising income inequality and income change within Calgary between 1980 and 2010. The presentation will explore ideas around the Divided City concept and the Three Cities of Calgary. Key features of socio-spatial differentiation between these Three Cities point to problematic kinds of social cleavage that parallel the increasingly divided metropolis. (video recording) https://youtu.be/ t8jRH9NmjbQ
Peter Kellett. W hy LBGTQ2S+ Mental Health Research Matters: A Call for Urgency and Intersectionality. Peter Kellett, 30 November The burden of mental illness is often disproportionately experienced by members of the LGBTQ2S+ community, emphasizing the urgent need to invest in research and programming for this very diverse population. Supported by current mental health statistics among LGBTQ2S+ Canadians, potential contributors to mental illness among queer persons aee explored. (video recording forthcoming)
Female Employment in the Middle East and North Africa: An Empirical Analysis Pascal Ghazalian, 7 December There have been significant advances toward improving women’s well-being and social status in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) over the last few decades. However, women’s employment examines the effects of firm-related and national factors on female employment firms located in the MENA region. (presentation was not recorded)
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New Appointments and Awards Heidi MacDonald
continuing success in your new role.
After being a supporter of the Prentice Institute as a member of the Academic Advisory Committee, Heidi MacDonald is departing Uiversity of Lethbridge to Heidi MacDonald and the Lieutenbecome Dean of Arts at ant Governor of Nova Scotia, University of New BrunsArthur LeBlanc, earlier this year wick at St John. We are delighted that she will remain as a Prentice joining our growing roster of national Prentice Research Affiliates. and wish you
Dan Dutton, Former Post-Doctoral Fellow, January 2019 will see Dan Dutton taking up a tenure-track , Dalhousie University campus in Saint John, New Brunswick. He will also hold an Adjunct appointment in Sociology at the
Accolades: Susan McDaniel
Her Honour the Lieutenant Governor of the and Susan McDaniel, FRSC exchange greetings.
Canadian On November 28th, the Canadian Council of Academies (constituent academies include Royal Society of Engineering, and Canadian Academy of Health Sciences) held a celebratory event in Ottawa. In attendance were the Presidents of all three Academies and the President/CEO of the CCA as well as Presidents of the granting councils, NRC and deputy Ministers of many federal departments Lieutenant Governor of the Province
of Ontario, Elizabeth Dowdeswell. The term of office of the incumbent Chair of the Margaret Bloodworth, O.C., a highly distinguished federal civil servant, was ending. She was thanked by all. Incoming Chair of the CCA Board is David Dodge, former Governor of the Bank of Canada. During the event, Susan McDaniel, FRSC, was honour ed for her leadership role as a founding member and then Chair (2014-2017) of the CCA’s Scientific Her immediate predecessor in the role of Chair was Thomas Brzustowski, former President of NSERC, and prior to that, Elizabeth Dowdeswell, now Lt. Governor of the Province of Ontario. Her successor as Chair is Eliot Phillipson, former President of the Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI), and former President of CIHR. In addition to her role as Chair, Susan served assessing the State of Science and Technology in Canada, a first in Canada. This assessment is now a
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periodic one, now in its fourth panel. These assessments have been crucial Additional Global Accolades Susan McDaniel was elected to the Sociological Association at the World Congress of Sociology in Toronto in July, 2018. She also has become a Research Affiliate, Institute on Aging and Lifelong Health In August, 2018 she travelled to Vietnam where she gave an invited research talk in Ho Chi Minh City. In 2019, she will be doing more global outreach First to Manila, Philippines in March where she will participate in Round Table with graduate students there sharing her knowledge of global population research and research methods. In June 2019, she is invited to Adelaide Australia where she will be the opening keynote speaker at a conference on A geing in a Foreign Land.
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Prentice Institute Hosts Public Panel: Thinking Globally, Thinking Nationally violations, and large scale atrocities including an estimated 25,000 killed and 18,000 women raped. The challenges faced by Bangladesh as it hosts an estimated 1 million Rohinga refugees are described. These include accommodation, food, security. access to education, problems of crime, and trafficking.
Members of the public panel
On the evening of October 22, the Prentice Institute hosted a Public Panel: Thinking Globally, Thinking Nationally at the Lethbridge Library (downtown branch). Moderator Alexander Darku, Associate Director of the Prentice Institute introduced the topic by saying that many of the most challenging issues we face are of a global nature, however the solutions often fall upon nations to address. The panel was brought together to generate meaningful discussion on these issues. Southern Alberta Council on Public Affairs (SACPA) co-sponsored the event. All of the panelists are from the University of Lethbridge, from different disciplines and are at different points in their careers. All are Institute . Julie Young, Assistant Professor of Geography and Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Critical Border Studies and Prentice Research Affiliate
when borders are becoming increasingly globalized and transnational? Pascal Ghazalian is a professor in the Faculty of Economics & is a Prentice Research Affiliate
He invited discussion on how to bring global support for resolutions calling for an end to human rights violations against the Rohinga, and international support for seeing to the needs of refugees in Bangladesh.
Celeste Barnes is a PhD candidate in the Department of Geography
Pascal Ghazalian discussed the integration of global and national economies, regional trade agreements, foreign direct investment and the arguments for and against protectionism. He pointed out that the global economy can be impacted by individual nation state decisions based on protectionism which affects other nations which themselves may have little influence on the global economy but are nonetheless influenced by it. Kamrul Islam is a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Prentice Institute from Bangladesh
Julie Young, r aised questions about the way borders are understood, particularly challenging the portrayal of migration as temporary crisis. She suggests a more long-term perspective , acknowledging that some migrants lose their lives as a result of Kamrul Islam familiarized the audience border control, and that recognizing Cana- with the Rohinga refugee situation in da’s borders extends beyond the CanadaBangladesh, including its historical backUS border to other spaces ground, numbers of displaced persons as well as the historical origins of the marginShe asks, Who bears the responsibility for alization of the Rohinga people. He disthe impacts of border control policies cusses recent events such as human rights
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Celeste Barns discussed climate change influence on hurricane patterns, ocean temperatures, and sea levels as factors increasing impacts of hurricanes. She discussed how states are ill-prepared to deal with infrastructure impacts and the limitations of national economies that do not have the resources to rebuild on their own. Recovery is often at a nation level, with piecemeal international support so some countries do not have the resources to get their infrastructure back. We have global weather systems that nations have to deal with on their own. The panel’s intended purpose was to engage with the public on these global and national issues. The audience was highly motivated to engage. A lively discussion followed.