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Prentice Institute Leadership Message Much else has also occurred in these past few months as the institute takes on a new strucTrevor Harrison, ture and direction. The research PhD, advisory board, chaired capably Interim Director Prentice Institute by Dr. Cheryl Currie, made sevAssociate Professor eral funding allocations and Sociology Department University of Lethbridge worked at streamlining the process of applications. At the same time, work has also begun Even as we must remain vigilant for establishing the institute’s around the continuing Covid-19 Academic Advisory Board. pandemic, there remains much to which we must attend in our One of the institute’s genuine personal and professional lives. highlights over previous years This is no less the case for the has been regular community Prentice Institute. And, indeed, presentations, colloquially much has occurred since our referred to as “brown bags.” last Post. These events have featured the presentation by Prentice The most exciting news, as you affiliates of their work to fellow will read here, is the appointresearchers and the community ment beginning January 1, 2021 on a range of subjects. These of Dr. Lars Hallström as the inpresentations and the stimulatstitute’s new director. Dr. Halling discussions that have ström comes to us with an imfollowed have taken a hiatus pressive background in reover the past year, but are now search and a wealth of experibeing reborn. Institute supportence in administration. Prentice ers can look forward to a host of affiliates, staff, and the university Prentice Institute brown bags in community at large will have the the new year. enjoyable opportunity in the coming months – and years! – to As always, I want to wish all of get to know Lars. you the very best in the holiday season soon upon us. No matter Another happy note involves the the apparent trials and tribulainstitute’s long-serving Research tions we face, we will get Analyst, Dr. Germain Boco, who through this – together! has accepted a three-year position as a Prentice-supported Assistant Professor in the university’s Sociology Department. 1

Inside this issue: Leadership Message

Introducing Dr. Lars Hallström

New International Affiliates

New Prentice Affiliates at U of L

About the Academic Advisory Committee

Prentice Funding Recipients

Mission Statement The Prentice Institute supports and conducts research on the changing human populations and the potential impacts on social, environmental, and economic issues, and communicates its findings widely. The Prentice Institute and its research collaborations seek to understand longterm changes in human and economic environments, within an historical context, with particular attention to the role human actions play in influencing these outcomes. We conduct and integrate research on the dynamics of Canadian and global demography and their impact on economic well-being 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 and Economy at the University of Lethbridge.

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Prentice Institute Recruits Lars Hallström as its New Director a sociologist and the Prentice Institute’s first director, who served in the position until August 2019. Dr. Trevor Harrison, interim director of the Prentice Institute, says Hallström brings with him many interdisciplinary strengths, including the fields of political science, demography, geography and sociology. His skills in these areas will allow him to build upon what has already been established at the Prentice Institute. “He has an established record of both getting research grants and assisting others in getting grants,” says Harrison. “His research, especially in rural areas and economic development in rural areas, is going to be a real plus for the institute.”

Introducing Dr. Lars Hallström, Prentice Institute Director

Hallström sees a natural fit between his previous work and the mission of the Prentice Institute.

The University of Lethbridge is pleased to announce Dr. Lars Hallström has been appointed as the new director of the Prentice Institute for Global Population and Economy effective Jan. 1, 2021.

“The position at the Prentice Institute aligns with some of the different areas where my work has fallen in terms of intersectoral actions, how environment and social and health policy, for example, can all affect each other and maybe leverage positive change in ways that are not directly assumed,” says Hallström. “I am a political scientist by training, but my work is more broadly oriented towards public policy at different levels, including environmental health and social policy, questions of equity, social determinants of health, urban and rural economic development, youth and youth engagement and access to public health infrastructure.”

“We are excited to welcome Dr. Hallström to the University of Lethbridge and the Prentice Institute,” says Dr. Erasmus Okine, vice-president (academic) and provost. “I got to know Lars when I was still at the University of Alberta and he’s a dedicated scholar and researcher whose expertise is well-suited to the Prentice Institute.” Hallström is currently the inaugural director of the Alberta Centre for Sustainable Rural Communities, a joint program of the Augustana Faculty and the Faculty of Agricultural, Life and Environmental Sciences at the University of Alberta. His background is in political science and he will be joining the U of L’s political science department as a faculty member. However, his primary duties will be with the Prentice Institute, which was established in 2009 following a $8.25 million gift from Alberta entrepreneur John Prentice. As a multi-disciplinary, cross-faculty institute, it is dedicated to researching the long-term effects of demographic, economic and social issues related to changes in world population patterns. Hallström

“Dr. Hallström brings extensive experience in leading a highly impactful research institute within a comprehensive university environment,” says Dr. Robert Wood, interim vice-president (research). “We look forward to the collaborative research and community engagement opportunities he will cultivate in his role as director of the Prentice Institute.”

After a year of university studies and playing rugby in the United Kingdom, Hallström obtained a BA with a major in political science at the University of Calgary in 1995 and completed a master’s and PhD in political Dr. Susan McDaniel, science at Indiana’s Purdue University. He began his academic career at St. Francis Continues on Page 3 2

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New National & International Prentice Research Affiliates Dr. Odole is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Physiotherapy, Faculty of Clinical Sciences, College of Medicine at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. She is also a Dr. Adesola Christiana Odole

Specialist Advisor/Honorary Consultant in Orthopaedic Physiotherapy at the University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria. She obtained her Ph.D. in Orthopaedic physiotherapy from the University of Ibadan and she holds two Masters degrees – Science (Physiotherapy) and Bio-Medical Education. She is the Association of Clinical and Nigeria. Her teaching, scholarship, and clinical practice have been geared towards musculoskeletal health, health outcomes assessment, epidemiology, physiotherapy education, and tele-physiotherapy. She is passionate about advancing health and promoting health outcomes through education, advocacy, and research. She looks

forward to collaborating with the Prentice Institute.

Dr. Andrew Patterson

Dr. Katherine KompLeukunen

Dr. Patterson is currently an assistant professor at Dr. KompMacEwan Leukunen is University, in the Department of associate pro- Sociology He was previously at the fessor in social University of Alberta where he policy, Helsinki University, Finland. taught in 2017 – 2018. Affiliates may recognize Andrew from when She is a Marie Curie fellow, Treasurer of the European Socio- he was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Prentice Institute. He holds his logical Association, and Chair of doctorate from the University of the Research Network on Ageing British Columbia. He has been the in Europe. recipient of numerous awards. Dr. Komp-Leukunen was a postHis work statistically intersects doctoral researcher at the Prentice society’s health, political landInstitute in 2010-11. After leaving scape, inequality, and sociothe postdoctoral position here she economic status; he specifically did further postdoctoral work at uses disability, gender, and race to Umea University, was an external explore these issues. lecturer at the University of Bremen, Germany, before becoming Assistant Professor and then Asso- Dr. Patterson’s quantitative contriciate Professor . butions to published and working She has continued researching on papers include: generalized linear questions of population ageing models; Bayesian statistics; multiwith a focus on work and retirelevel statistics; structural equation ment, and conducts comparative models; multiple imputation of welfare research. She sees poten- missing data; longitudinal/survival tial for resuming research collabo- analysis; bootstrap routines; ration with the Prentice Institute, weighted variance for secure data; and working with international generalized estimating equations; country data comparisons. and sequence index plots.

New Director (continued from p2) Xavier University in Nova Scotia as a professor of political science and Canada Research Chair in Public Policy and Governance. Hallström joined the University of Alberta in 2009 and has been director of the Alberta Centre for Sustainable Rural Communities since then.

Canada as a teen. Music was a central theme in his life as a youth and something he continues to enjoy.

“My dad was an amateur musician as a youth in northern Sweden,” says Hallström. “ went through the Royal Conservatory piano trajectory and started playing in bands, as many people do, in high school. Hallström was born in Edmonton but his family, due For the last five years, I’ve been playing bass in a to his father’s work in the oil industry, left Canada local band. It’s great fun, and we have a good time shortly after and he spent most of his childhood living playing rock & roll and playing it loud.” in Europe and the United States before returning to 3

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New Prentice Institute Research Affiliates parallel interests, for research and dissemination opportunities.

Dr. Debra Basil is a professor in the Dhillon School of Business, a Board of Governors Research Chair, and the Director of the Institute for Social & Consumer Wellbeing.

Dr. Hogue is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Arts & Science. She is an associate of the Department of IndigDr. Galway is an Associate Professor enous Studies and the Coordinator Inin the Department of English and a digenous Student Success Cohort at the co-founder and current Co-Director of University of Lethbridge. She researchHer research interests include employee the Institute of Child and Youth Studies es in the Scholarship of Teaching and volunteerism, cause-related marketing, (I-CYS). She researches on the role of Learning (SoTL) focusing on building charity appeals, corporate social respon- children's literature in shaping notions bridges between Indigenous and Westsibility, sustainable business practices of children's citizenship, constructing ern ways of knowing and learning using and social marketing. national identities, and influencing culturally relevant and innovative methunderstandings of what it means to be a odological approaches that blend reIn a recent web article she states, “A child. quired curricular and institutional decommitment to sustainability forces a She discusses these in her recent talk in mands with methodological teaching company to carefully examine all pro- PUBlic Professor series of the U of L. and learning practices that attend to Incesses...” Her research concern with digenous Ways of Knowing and Learnsocial and consumer wellbeing is also a ing (IWKL). concern with human impacts on global population and economy. Several of her funded research collaborations with indigenous Canadian, Australian and New Zealand researchers address research and teaching methods Dr. Genee is a Professor of Linguistics to include IWKL. Her work expands in the Department of Modern Lanvision for engaged and reformed relaguages and Linguistics and Chair of the tionships between Indigenous and nonDepartment of Indigenous Studies. She Indigenous peoples. Dr. Jon Doan obtained his PhD. In is cross-appointed to both departments. Neuroscience at the University of Lethbridge. His research combines mechan- “Language affects all aspects of the ical and biological engineering with lives of human populations. The personkinesiology and neuroscience. He sees al choices made by parents in the home, his examinations of micro- and macro- about which language to transmit to ergonomics amongst critical occupatheir children, affect their offspring’s tional populations and worker defuture in a world economy increasingly Dr. O’Donnell researches mostly in the mographics as related to the Prentice dominated by a few global languages.” Digital Humanities, focusing particularMission statement. she notes. ly on the representation of Cultural Heritage, Globalization and Diversity He holds an NSERC Discovery Grant Her work on indigenous language sus- Studies, and Scholarly Communication. targeting mixed methods examination tainability and revitalization relates to He is currently researching crossof the influences of age, gender, and the Prentice Institute’s focus on disciplinary, global aspects of Open expertise biases on paired lifting behav- “changing human populations” and Science and Scholarship. iour, and has proposed research for field “understanding long-term changes in experimentation in ergonomic risk and human and economic environments, More detail on Dr. O’Donnell’s focus intervention amongst long-term care within a historical context.” is featured in the Spring issue of the workers. He hopes that a research affilHer recent work facilitated the creation Prentice Post newsletter. iation with the Prentice Institute will of the on-line Blackfoot Language Reprovide connection to colleagues with sources project. 4

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New Research Affiliates (continued) Dr. Sirbu represents the Faculty of Fine Arts on the Prentice Institute Steering Committee.

Dr. Noella Piquette is an Associate Professor and Registered Psychologist. Her research areas encompass counselling diverse clients, inclusive education and developmental psychology. She is currently involved in research on early literacy supports for rural communities, inclusive teaching practices - differentiation, and gender specific counseling treatment options.

Dr. Rossitsa Yalamova is an associate professor of Finance, Dhillon School of Business. She holds a Ph.D. in finance from Kent State University and MD from Saint Petersburg State Medical Academy, Russia. She was a visiting professor in the Facolta di Scienze Her teaching and research interest conEconomiche, Universita della Svizzera centrates on supporting marginalized populations. Dr. Piquette is interested Italiana, Lugano, Switzerland in in application based research dissemi- 2009/10; in the Faculty of Business and Law, University of Canterbury, Christnation for early intervention and informing practice. Dr. Piquette repre- church, New Zealand in 2016. sents the Faculty of Education on the Dr. Yalamova’s research interests relatPrentice Steering Committee. ed to Sustainability and Resilience of socio-economic systems. Expertise in complex networks structure and dynamics facilitates Dr. Yalamova’s quest for internationalization of higher education utilizing her cultural awareness toward transformation of society Dr. Daniela Sirbu is an Associate Pro- through cultural diplomacy. fessor of New Media, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lethbridge. She Dr. Yalamova is serving on the Repreviously worked in the computer search Advisory Committee of the game industry as an animator, graphic Prentice Institute. designer, and 3D modeler. Dr. Sirbu’s research is interdisciplinary at the confluence between new media, architecture, systems engineering, evolutionary computing, and fine arts. Her research work is in computational art, digital exploration of unbuilt architecture through 3D computer reconstructions in multi-dimensional virtual environments, and Virtual Reality. She is interested in developing computational systems, which can autonomously produce original artwork or aid artistic production in interaction with a human user.

Serving on The Academic Advisory Committee Presently the Interim Director would like to finish up the organizing of the structure by populating the Academic Advisory Committee. It is the role of the AAC to 1) Create opportunities for interdisciplinary education and training programs linked to the research mandates of the Institute. 2) Develop ways to increase involvement of undergraduate and graduate students in the Institute’s research activities and those of research affiliates. 3) Assist graduate students in seeking funding and otherwise enhance training for high quality graduate students. 4) Create opportunities for all students to learn about the Institute’s programs and activities, encourage their involvement in research, and provide opportunities for them to disseminate their research findings (with supervision of affiliates). If you would like to self-nominate, or nominate another Faculty member, please send your suggestion to Trevor Harrison at trevor.harrison@uleth.ca . Nominee names will then be put to the Steering Committee for decision.

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Prentice Institute Distributes Funds

Pandemic Health Tips

The newly formed Research Advisory Committee of the Prentice Institute adjudicated $93,000 in funding awards in 2020.

The University’s Wellness program offers tips and resources for these unusual times, including these helpful ideas;

AFFILIATE RESEARCH A total of $45,000 were awarded to the Seed Grant and PIRAF recipients. We thank all who applied, and congratulate the successful applicants: Seed Grant (PIRSG): • Dr. Glenda Bonifacio will address Gender and the Economics of Disaster Aid: Transnational flows between Japan and the Philippines Research Affiliate Fund (PIRAF): • Dr. Bonnie Lee and her team will research Relationship and Spirituality in Counselling Intake Assessment During and Following COVID-19

STUDENT RESEARCH This year also marked the direct involvement of the Prentice Institute in adjudicating the Prentice Graduate Fellowships in connection with the School of Graduate Studies. Four graduate students, meeting the stringent requirements, were newly awarded the fellowship: • Mariah Besplug, Geography, Building Refuge: Narratives from the private sponsorship of refugee programs in the Lethbridge area • Rabindra Chaugalain, Woman & Gender Studies, Biopolitics and Governmentality: From Camps in Nepal to Community in Canada

• Dr. Pascal Ghazalian will examine data • Tanzi Hoover, Neuroscience, on Gender Inequality, Globalization, and the Fallout of COVID-19. An important part of the success of these proposals is that they provide opportunity for student involvement.

Trauma-Related Stress Disorders and Psychosocial Resources of Lethbridge Syrian Refugees •

Roya Sadat Mousavi, Geography, Historic and future weather extremes in the South Saskatchewan Watershed

Tentative funding application deadlines for 2021 Consult the Prentice web site for details and updates.

PGARA Ph.D.

PGARA Masters

PIGRF Fellowship

PIRSG Seed Grant

Feb. 1

Feb.1

April 15

PIRAF Affiliate

PURS Undergrad

May 1

Nov 1

Affiliate Book in Russian

Gratitude

A book by Prentice Affiliate Maura Hanrahan will soon be released in its second language; Russian. The Moscow-based Paulsen Publishing, which specializes in non-fiction, fiction and popular-science literature on the Arctic and the Antarctic,. has acquired publishing rights. It was originally published in English by Boulder Books.

We wish to mention those who have served on the Steering Committee during transition, who have since stepped down. Thank you to Reginald Bibby, James Graham, & John Usher for bringing your support to the processes of transition.

Unchained Man: The Life and Legacy of Captain Robert Abram Bartlett covers Bartlett’s greatest achievements, including his epic 700 mile walk across the frozen Arctic Ocean pack to Siberia from Alaska to save the crew and passengers of the ship Karluk, which had been crushed and sunk by ice.

We appreciate the commitment and service of the 15 affiliates currently serving on the Steering and Research Advisory committees, and extend our appreciation to all those who helped with the hiring process, including committee, administration, and those who provided feedback to the committee following the job talks. Thanks also to all that applied.

Staying connected: The largest hurdle to face when working from home is a feeling of isolation. Extended periods of time alone can leave you feeling anxious, uneasy and lonely. These feelings can be compounded by our current circumstances. One suggestion is to make a point of speaking with at least one person each day. Another is AHS Text4Hope– a free service providing daily Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)– based text messages (Text 393939 to subscribe). Structure and routine: Many people who work from home advise to set daily goals, eat at regular times, get consistent sleep, and to separate work time from home time. During office hours, try to stay in your work mindset, but allow yourself to take breaks and enjoy the perks of being at home by catching up on small household tasks. Instead of the daily commute try taking a short walk around the block at the beginning and end of your workday to signal that separation. Keep moving: Exercising can significantly lower anxiety levels, and boost serotonin. Stretch and Strengthen or an exercise app can get your energy flowing and feel refreshed without leaving the house. During off-hours, take some time to visit a local park or hiking destination to take in some fresh air. Mindful media: Try out a mindfulness app more often than Facebook or Instagram, or check out Dr. Toupey's Luft's presentation on Mindfulness. Reach out to your support systems: Healthy relationships with family, friends and loved ones are vital to your own mental well-being during this time. Be sure to check in with them on a regular basis, just as you would with your colleagues. Mental health services and supports for students, faculty and staff: Homewood Health - Employee Family Assistance Program - 1-888-713-8623 or Homeweb.ca Extracted from https://www.uleth.ca/hr/wellness