Prentice Post-Fall-2019

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Fall 2019 Volume 10 Issue 2

Prentice Institute Leadership Transition Alexander Darku, Interim Director, Prentice Institute

The Prentice Institute in Fall 2019 has seen a lot of changes. Dr. Susan McDaniel departed from the directorship and in the capacity as the Associate Director, I served as acting Director for a period until I was formally appointed as the Interim Director with effect from 19th September 2019. I will serve in this position until June 30, 2020 at which time a new Director will be hired to oversee the institute. As reported in earlier editions of the Prentice Post, the institute has been undergoing a routine Academic Quality Assurance (AQA) review since winter 2018. The leadership transition at the Institute has coincided with the concluding part of the AQA review of the PI. This transition period will be used to build on the institute’s notable achievements (namely, the large number and interdisciplinary nature of the PI’s faculty affiliates, the mentorship of junior and early-career scholars), multiple methods of knowledge dissemination (such as the brown bag series -4 to 6 each semester-, distinguished speakers series, and newsletter), and attracting well-established national and international scholars through partnerships with institutes and research teams at other Canadian and international universities. We certainly are poised to use this opportunity to continue to advance the mission of the institute and increase its domestic and international reputation.

Within the next few months, I will lead a team of research affiliates and other faculty members of the university, through various committees, to create initiatives to implement the recommendations made by the self-study committee and the external reviewers. Many of the recommendations provide a path forward

Susan McDaniel, previous Director, Prentice Institute

Dear Prentice Institute colleagues, friends and supporters, I want to thank everyone who has helped, supported and participated in Prentice Institute activities over the past ten years. Particular thanks go to the Prentice Institute Research Affiliates both at the University of Lethbridge (from all Faculties) and from across Canada and the world. And to our staff colleagues and numerous post-doctoral fellows.

I take pride in what we have accomplished in the Prentice Institute – from almost nothing in mid-2009 when I arrived except empty office space, a significant donation and promising opportunity, we have managed to create many successes, some of which are documented elsewhere in this issue. We have gained recognition in Canada and in many places in the world for our research and contributions to important contemporary debates on global population.

With best wishes to all those who have supported the Prentice Institute.

Susan A. McDaniel, Ph.D., FRSC

Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Global Population & Life Course (2011-2014 ONLY -- U of L took CRC away due to lost SSHRC allocation) Prentice Research Chair & Professor of Sociology, U Lethbridge until Sept 2020 Distinguished University Professor, U Alberta Research Affiliate, Institute on Aging and Lifelong Health, UVictoria President, International Sociological Association, Research Committee on Family, 2018-2022

for strengthening the institute and a related framework for its strategic development and governance.

Alexander Darku, PhD,

Interim Director, Prentice Institute Associate Professor, Economics Department University of Lethbridge

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Inside this issue: Leadership Transition

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Ten Years of Achievement

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A tribute to Susan McDaniel

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Affiliate Conferences & Workshops

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Recent Funding Recipients

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New Books & Book Chapters

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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.

Prentice Post is the Bi-Annual newsletter of the Prentice Institute for Global Population

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A few Highlights of the First Prentice Institute Director, Dr. Susan A. McDaniel 2009 -2019 The institute became fully operational in mid-2009 with the hiring of Dr. Susan A. McDaniel, FRSC, Professor of Sociology, as Director and Prentice Research Chair. Under her administration, the Prentice Institute:  Welcomed/recruited 29 U of L Research Affiliates.  Welcomed/recruited 17 well-known National and International Affiliates.  Invited and Mentored 12 Post Doctoral Fellows.  Principal investigator or co-investigator of 5 SSHRC funded research projects with budgets totaling $6.7 million.  Hosted 83 public talks or forums facilitating research knowledge translation. (46 of these are available online and have been viewed for a total of 990 hours to date).  Gave 29 invited addresses around the world as well as 50 conference papers.  Author of numerous books and journal articles, including 16 refereed book chapters, 23 journal articles and three books.

During this time, McDaniel was the recipient of multiple awards and honours, including:  Ingrid Speaker Research Award, 2016 (nominated by colleagues & awarded by committee, not administration)  Distinguished Demographer, University of Alberta, 2015  Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal, 2013 (nominated by the Royal Society of Canada) She served on 19 national, and 7 international boards/committees since 2009, a select few of which are:  Chair, Canadian Research Data Centre Network (CRDCN) Review Advisory Group, 2014-2015  Member, Royal Society of Canada Task Force on Diversity in the Fellowship, 2010-12  Executive Council of the International Sociological Association, elected 2018-2022  President, International Sociological Association, Research Group on Family, elected 2018-2022  Chair, Special Multi-Disciplinary Assessment Committee, Canadian Foundation for Innovation (top C.F.I. Committee) 2014-2015 (invitation from President and CEO, Gilles Patry on April 25, 2014)  National Statistics Council, Advisory to Chief Statistician of "Outstanding Canadians," appointed by Minister Responsible for Statistics Canada 1992-present  Chair, Scientific Advisory Committee, Council of Canadian Academies, January 2014 – Dec 31, 2017 and Vice Chair for 3 previous years

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Photo Highlights

Receiving the Diamond Jubilee Medal, March 2013, Susan A. McDaniel (c) with Professor Yolande Grise, President of RSC (l), & Darren Gilmour, Executive Director, RSC (r)

Workshop on structural factors in the supply and demand for care, organized by Susan McDaniel and the Prentice Institute team, 2015.

Dr. McDaniel and others discussing the work of care research partnership on which she was co-investigator, 2015.

Colleagues and friends gather to extend best wishes to Susan McDaniel and recognize ten years of service as the Institute’s first Director, July, 2019.

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A Tribute to Susan McDaniel

by Trevor Harrison As Interim Director of the Prentice Institute in its first years, I was quite pleased to hand over the keys to Susan McDaniel when she took over as full-time director in 2009. But I stayed on informally for the next number of years, as either an advisor or presenter. From that position, I watched the institute grow in importance and prestige. As Susan departs, I believe I have a vantage point from which to reflect on her years of service to the institute.

A few stark figures bear out some of the Prentice Institute’s achievements during Susan’s time: The 5th Anniversary celebration of the Prentice Institute.

Trevor Harrison, Susan McDaniel, Director, Alexander Darku, Associate Director

Total number of speaking events held by the Prentice Institute to date: more than 80 Total number of out of area guest speakers hosted by the Prentice Institute: nearly 40 The number of non-affiliate U of L speakers presenting at Prentice Institute panels: more than 20 Total number of presentations by Prentice Affiliates at Prentice Institute speaking events: more than 70 The number of currently available videos that have been published by the Prentice Institute: more than 40 Total views of Prentice videos: in excess of 6,000 Total hours of videos watched by viewers of talks hosted: nearly 800 To these raw statistics, I would add the number of post-doctoral fellows who have come through the institute – 12 by my count; and the many awards provided by the institute or obtained by affiliated researchers as a result of their connection to it.

Susan was able to lure a host of prominent speakers from afar to

come to the university; among them, Miles Corak, Herb Emery, Thomas Homer-Dixon, Gordon Laxer, Constantine Passaris, and Munir Sheik. That we were able to meet and exchange ideas with each of them is much credit to Susan’s powers of persuasion.

But names and numbers alone are never adequate. I will treasure always the occasions when I presented at Prentice Institute Brown Bags or listened to my colleagues and invited guests at others. Under Susan, these events and others created a place of connection for colleagues between and across the university.

These occasions, and what I learned and shared, I will also treasure from Susan’s time.

Finally, I would be severely remiss if I did not also mention those occasions when Susan invited a gathering of people to her home, and the warm and welcoming atmosphere provided by her and her canine companion, Victoria.

The measure of anyone’s leadership is this: Under that leadership, is the organization better off at the end than it was at the beginning? By this measure, the answer in Susan’s case is a resounding “yes.” You made a difference, Susan. You will not be forgotten. Good luck and all the best in your next venture.

Recent Media on Research of Prentice Affiliates Work of Prentice Institute Research Affiliates has been mentioned in the following recent news articles: Constantine Passaris, Inter national Research Affiliate, Economics, UNB, discusses changing technology and the “Internetization” of the global economy in a public interest article in the spring 2019 Fredricton, New Brunswick publication, “Fred Scene.”

Cheryl Currie, UofL Resear ch Affiliate, Health Sciences, graduate researcher Kat Chief Moon-Riley on epigenetic impact of Indian Residential

School was covered in the Lethbridge Herald in a March 19 article: “A mother’s experience of residential school may have physical impacts on her children.”

Dan Dutton, National Resear ch Affiliate, Health Sciences, Dalhousie, was interviewed by Global News Radio on June 20th regarding his analysis “Marital Status of those in Poverty” released in Social Policy Trends, a publication of the School of Public Policy at the University of Calgary. It finds that “nearly 7 out of 10 Albertans experiencing deep poverty are single.”

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Heidi MacDonald, National Resear ch Affiliate, Dean of Arts, UNB, St. Johns, writing a book on W omen’s Suffrage in Canada, is quoted in CBC article on the 100th anniversary of women obtaining the right to vote April 17.

Peter Kellett, UofL Resear ch Affiliate, Health Sciences, responds to the question, “Why is there so little talk of attracting men to female-dominated jobs?” with particular information on the low percentage of men in the nursing profession in a Globe and Mail article of April 18.

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Affiliates in Conferences & Workshops At the International Conference on A geing in a Foreign Land in June, at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia, Prentice Institute Director, Susan McDaniel FRSC presented the opening keynote address, “Ageing in a New Land: Sculpted by Time and Waves."

Julie Young, Tier 2 Canada Resear ch Chair in Bor der Studies and Pr entice Research Affiliate, organized conference on Border Studies with other members of the Border Studies Group at the University of Lethbridge. They hosted the conference, The Line Crossed Us: New Directions in Critical Border Studies, on June 14 & 15. Watch for a peer reviewed anthology to be made available.

Canadian Population Society On June 5 & 6 the Canadian Population Society held its annual meeting at University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Prentice Research affiliates who participated in the conference:

Affiliate Spotlight: Olu Awosoga Population Health Researcher, Statistician, and Prentice Institute Affiliate Olu Awosoga has been appointed Board of Governors Teaching Chair at the University of Lethbridge. His appointment was celebrated at the University’s Spring Convocation Ceremony in May, where he also concluded his

Adebiyi Germain Boco, Pr entice Institute Resear ch Analyst, presented two papers: “Islamic Cultures and Child Mortality in Sub-Sahara Africa: Testing the Religious Ecology Model” and one co-authored with Institute Director, Susan McDaniel, “Living Arrangements and Health in Mid to Later Life: Evidence from the Canadian General Social Survey (GSS), 2003-2016.”

Abdie Kazemipur, Pr entice Institute National Resear ch Affiliate, Ethnic Studies Chair and Professor of Sociology, University of Calgary, was organizer for the session “Canadian Research Data Centres (RDCs), New Data, and New Research Potentials.”

Michael Haan, Pr entice Institute National Resear ch Affiliate, Associate Professor of Sociology, UWO, organized three sessions; “Migration in Canada,” “Immigration in Canada,” and “International Demographic Research.”

Tom Perks, Pr entice Institute Resear ch Affiliate, Associate Pr ofessor of Sociology, University of Lethbridge, also presented at the CPS conference. His title: “Idle hands and sports participation: Does involvement in organized sport prevent deviant behaviour among children and youth?”

Other conferences/workshops Prentice Institute Research Affiliate, Associate Professor Sociology University of Lethbridge, William Ramp co-presented a conference paper with graduate student Sahar Siavashi at Symposium on the Greeks, June 28-30 in Paros, Greece. The title, “Pedagogies and Possibilities of Crisis in Greek and Iranian Film.”

Kamrul Islam, Pr entice Institute Postdoctor al Fellow, attended a summer workshop at Johns Hopkins University June 17 - 21, 2019, where he furthered his skills in analyzing longitudinal data.

Brenda Leung, Prentice Institute Research Affiliate, Health Sciences, University of Lethbridge, presented at the inVIVO Planetary Health 8th annual conference, Detroit, May 15-17. Her title: “A case for meeting micronutrient needs of children with ADHD.” Bonnie Lee, Pr entice Institute Resear ch Affiliate, Associate Pr ofessor in Health Sciences, was one of the presenters at the 2019 Advanced Clinical Education Institutes sponsored by the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy in Singapore in July. Her workshop; "W orking with Couple Relationship Issues in Addictive Disorders" was well received by clinicians looking for a systems approach in working with substance abuse, problem gambling and internet gaming disorders, which are now global problems.

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Dr. Olu Awosoga, becomes teaching chair after 3rd year of service as Grand Marshal third year of service as Chief Marshal.

Said he of this service, “I have also had opportunities to visit several elementary schools in southern Alberta with the mace as a way to inspire children to further their education. Working with the GFC convocation committee has also been a highlight of my tenure...”

Dr. Awosoga’s recent research involves developing the Moral Distress in Dementia Care Survey, an instrument useful for estimating the frequency, severity and effects of moral distress in nursing staff working in dementia care settings and for the evaluation of measures taken to mitigate moral distress.

Olu Awosoga, Health Sciences, is an Applied Statistician with over 25 years of postsecondary teaching experience. He has a keen interest in the application of statistics in education, health and social sciences. He teaches Applied Statistics courses to students in Nursing, Public Health, and Addictions Counselling program at both undergraduate and graduate levels. He has been a Research Affiliate of the Prentice Institute since 2013.

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Recent Ar ticles by Affiliates Trade

Pascal Ghazalian, Pr entice Institute Research Affiliate, has three recent journal articles on topics related to the economy and Canadian trade. For instance, he & co-author Bahareh Seddghy discuss impact of the changes in Canada’s preferential trade network in recent years. “The analysis underlines that the deepening of the North American market integration would lead to increases in national welfare.” 1

United States, and that “the middle class is within easier reach of Canadian children raised in low income families than for Americans.”

Alberta Labour Market

In his paper, “The Future of Alberta’s Labour Market: The Role of Immigration, Migration, and Developing Existing Human Capital,” Prentice Institute Research Affiliate, Richard Mueller discusses options for both better utilizing existing labour force and growing the labour force. Trends in the Health & Policy worker migration are also The July 2019 article by Prentice various Institute National Research Affiliate, discussed.

Raphael Lencucha and co-author Convergence Marie Thow, discuss cross-sectoral policy incoherence on unhealthy Wei Xu, Pr entice Resear ch Affiliate, products (including Tobacco).2 He also and co-researchers used a time-varying has an article on occupational health.3 factor model to look at convergence The research of Dr. Lencucha is subject trends in non-linear data from 329 prefecture regions in China. Their of a recent video from McGill . findings explain significant factors involved in club convergence in China.4 Intergenerational Mobility Prentice International Research Affiliate, Miles Corak, Pr ofessor at the Gr aduate Center of the University of New York has co-authored the study, Intergenerational mobility between and within Canada and the United States.

The study adds detail to a growing consensus finding that social mobility is twice as likely in Canada than in the

SSHRC Insight Development Grants (IDG’s) were recently received by Prentice Research Affiliates.

Reginald Bibby is a collabor ator on r esearch entitled, “Surveying Millennials’ Non-Religious Homophily and Social Distance.”

Miles Corak is a collabor ator on “Education and Intergenerational Transmission of Income” the publication of the results is already announced.

Julie Young is pr incipal investigator on “Contested border crossings: Assessing the impacts of Canadian refugee deterrence policies and practices.”

Mickey Vallee has an Insight Development Grant to investigate “Voice Assistants and the New Human/Computer Intimacy; An Instrumental Case Study.”

Glenda Bonifacio has a new SSHRC Insight Development Grant (IDG) "Gender equality, foreign aid and Dutertism: Case study of post-Haiyan communities in the Philippines, 20162019." This grant is based on research initially supported by a Prentice Institute Seed Grant.

Select Recent Ar ticles by Prentice Research Affiliates Connolly, Marie, Corak, Miles & Haeck, Catherine. 2019. “Intergenerational Mobility between and within Canada and the United States,” the National Bureau of Economic Research, NBER Working Paper No. 25735.

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Ghazalian, Pascal L. & Sedghy, Bahar eh Mosadegh. 2019. " Changes in Canada’s Preferential Trade Network and the Welfare Effects in Agricultural Markets." https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/92997/ .

Ghazalian, Pascal L. & Amponsem, Fr eder ick, 2019. " The effects of economic fr eedom on FDI inflows: an empir ical analysis," Applied Economics 51(11): 1111-1132. https://doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2018.1524979 Ghazalian, Pascal L. 2019. " Canada's beef expor ts: Bor der effects and pr ospects for mar ket access," Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d'agroeconomie 67(1): 53-74. https://doi.org/10.1111/cjag.12173 2

Lencucha, Raphael & Thow, Anne Mar ie. 2019. “How Neoliberalism Is Shaping the Supply of Unhealthy Commodities and What This Means for NCD Prevention,” International Journal of Health Policy and Management (IJHPM) x(x): 1-7. doi:10.15171/ijhpm.2019.56 3

Lencucha, Raphael & Shikako-Thomas, Keiko. 2019. “Examining the intersection of policy and occupational therapy: A scoping review,” Canadian Journal or Occupational Therapy 86(3): 185-195. doi.org/10.1177/0008417419833183 Leung, Brenda M.Y., Kellett, Peter, Youngson, Er ik & Hathaway, J osh. 2019. “Trends in psychiatric disorders prevalence and prescription patterns of children in Alberta, Canada,” Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-019-01714-w 4

Zhang, Weili, Xu, Wei & Xiaoye Wang. 2019. Regional Convergence Clubs in China: Identification and Conditioning Factors,” The Annals of Regional Science 62(2): 327-350.

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Brown Bag Talk: Food Security Research

Books from Prentice Research Affiliates Prentice Institute Research Affiliate Reginald Bibby has, with J oel Thiessen and Monetta Bailey, released a new book, The Millennial Mosaic: How Pluralism and Choice Are Shaping Canadian Youth and the Future of Canada. Referencing both past and recent data they provide an up-to-date reading on how Millennials see the world — their values, joys, and concerns, their views of family, sexuality, spirituality, and other Canadians, and their hopes and expectations looking to the future. “Pluralism is in their DNA,” says Bibby. “Beyond embracing the idea of diversity, millennials maintain the need for a just and fair society.”

A talk on Research gaps between agricultural systems analysis & food security was presented at the Prentice Institute on September 20th.

Dr. Emma Stephens of the Lethbridge Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, provided an overview of research she and colleagues have been working on.

Dr. Emma Stephens of Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada, Speaking at the Prentice Institute

She pointed out that research on agricultural systems is often motivated by concerns about food security. However despite the many linkages between food production and supply and the subsequent food security status of a given population, relatively little quantitative analysis has been done to fully link agricultural systems research to what the food systems research community has identified as the main pillars of food security: food availability, access, utilization and stability. Stephens presented two proof-of-concept exercises on ways to incorporate food security dimensions into agricultural systems models, discussed the results and challenges, and suggested future research priorities to better integrate food security into agricultural systems research. To view the video of her presentation, visit www.uleth.ca/prenticeinstitute.

Stehr, Nico & Amanda Machin.

2019. Society and Climate: Transformations and Challenges, World Scientific Publishing Co Ltd, 268 pages.

Drawing on the insights of various disciplines and citing numerous examples, Society and Climate probes the interplay between society, science and climate, and warns against making any easy assumptions. Nico Stehr touched on some of the concepts related to the book at a Prentice Institute Brown Bag Talk in November 14, 2014. “Exceptional Circumstances: Climate Change and Governance”

Chapters by Prentice Institute Research Affiliates Ziker, John P. & Fulk, Kar en S. “Indigenous Siberian Food Sharing Networks: Social Innovation in a Transforming Economy,” in Francesca Grippa, João Leitão, Julia Gluesing, Ken Riopelle & Peter Gloor, (Eds.) Collaborative Innovation Networks: Building Adaptive and Resilient Organizations Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing, pp. 117127. Published online 27 March 2018.

Stehr, Nico & Dustin Voss. 2019.

Money: A Theory of Modern Society, 1st Edition, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 412 pages.

In the book Money: A Theory of Modern Society, the authors trace the transformational scope of monetarization and financialization along the four classical productive forces – land, capital, labor, and knowledge – and evaluate the consequences of an irrepressible urge to quantify and monetarize almost everything social. What happens to a society in which the tangible products of the real economy lose their preeminent status, and everything is judged purely according to its economic value? The authors identify an increasing disconnect between market prices and social values with serious social, political, economic, and environmental consequences.

Vallee, Mickey. “Bioacoustics: Imaging and Imagining the Animal World,” in Mark Grimshaw Aagaard, Mads Walther-Hansen & Martin Knakkengaard, (Eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Imagination, Volume 2, New York, NY: Oxford University Press, Chapter 9, pp. 179-190.

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