Winter 2017 Edition
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AGING RESEARCH FORUM, XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY, XI'AN, CHINA, SEPTEMBER 2017
PRENTICE INSTITUTE DIRECTOR SUSAN MCDANIEL IN CHINA. From the Director: Summer and Fall 2017 found me on a six-month study leave. The Prentice Institute, in my absence, was ably led by Associate Director, Alexander Darku. Thank you, Alexander. A highlight of my study leave was an invitation from Xi’an Jiatong University in Xi’an, China, to give a keynote address and spend time talking with research faculty, post-docs and graduate students. Xi’an Jiatong University is home to the leading research centre on population studies and development in China. Not only did that research centre agree to become a sister institute to the Prentice, but they agreed as well to join my new multi-country study. China has some of the best longitudinal data in the world, so we look forward to their participation. While in Xi’an, I was hosted splendidly with a traditional Chinese banquet and many wonderful meals. I was also taken by the University hosts to visit the famous Terracotta Warriors -- an experience of a lifetime. I also travelled many times to Ottawa where I serve on data, research and policy advisory committees, several as Chair, bringing notice and credit to both the Prentice Institute and the University of Lethbridge. I also participated in the meetings in Winnipeg of the Royal Society of Canada. Since our last newsletter, our first Ph.D. in Demography, Peter Kellett, defended his dissertation and convocated. His proud father came all the way from Newfoundland for Peter’s convocation. We are so pleased that Dr. Kellett is now a Research Affiliate of the Prentice Institute. We additionally welcomed two more Research Affiliates, both at the U of L: Maura Hanrahan, Native Studies, and Yale Belanger, Political Science. Both are profiled in this newsletter and both will give Brown Bag talks in the Spring term 2018. We said farewell to two of our most recent post-docs whose terms were completed: Andrew Patterson (Ph.D. UBC) left in July for a position at the U of Alberta; and Zehan Pan (Ph.D. Fudan U) left in September to return to China where he has multiple faculty job offers. Daniel Dutton (Ph.D. U of Calgary) left earlier for family reasons and is now working in the School of Public Policy, U of Calgary. Two new post-doc, Kamrul Islam (Ph.D. U of A), from Bangladesh, will begin with us in March for two years, and Xiaohui Hu from Zhejiang, China, will join us as well in March for one year. Dr. Hu is jointly sponsored by the Prentice Institute and the Department of Geography at U of L. Nancy Metz, our administrative assistant, is taking a year-long unpaid leave for family reasons. We shall miss her greatly. One of our Masters students who completed the degree last year, Jeff Bingley, will be filling in temporarily. This will be a new role for Jeff with a learning curve. We are grateful for his willingness to take this on. Wishing everyone the very best for the holidays and for 2018.
University of Lethbridge
Inspiring Lights: Leading Lady; Dr. Glenda Bonifacio
GLOBAL CURRENTS IN GENDER AND FEMINISMS: CANADIAN AND INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES Emerald Publishing, December 2017
RESEARCH AFFILIATE GLENDA TIBE BONIFACIO This collection examines the ongoing shared struggles of diverse groups of women in Canada and beyond focusing on a diverse range of themes including movements, spaces and rights; inclusion, equity and policies; reproductive labour, work and economy; health, culture and violence; and sports and bodies. Situating Canada as a western society with avowed egalitarian ideals, and based on a ‘shared but different’ approach, this book highlights the intersectional dimensions of gendered lives and feminist actions for change in both western and non-western contexts. Gender issues and feminist struggles are interconnected internationally and this book examines the Canadian case alongside other countries across Latin America, Africa, Asia, Australasia and Europe to explore the global currents of gender and feminism and its practice. The centrality of gender and the need for feminist praxis remain highly relevant in the 21st Century, whether in western or non-western societies, and this collection provides a comprehensive overview of the international currents for gender equality, empowerment and social justice.
Connection and community – two elements that guide long-time Women & Gender Studies professor, Dr. Glenda Bonifacio. Creating a better world around her and leading by example, Glenda brings the type of warmth and approachability to a room that you can’t help but engage with and be enthralled by. “There are so many areas of study involved in Women & Gender Studies that I like to say it’s one of the pillars of liberal education and interdisciplinary studies. Our work takes into account so many different perspectives and areas of focus. The sciences, philosophy, political science, arts, management, for example, are integrated in our subject areas. My colleagues, students and I really get the best of all of these worlds and it’s evolving everyday. This means that my classes are never the same. Each year the text, the conversations and the discourse around concepts are different. It makes for exciting and interesting work because you are seeing change happen right in front of you…” https://blogs.ulethbridge.ca/inspiringlights/2017/10/10/leading-lady-dr-glendabonifacio/
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NEW PROJECT Research Affiliates Peter Kellett, Research Affiliate Julia Brassolotto and Lisa Howard.
TRANS-forming Rural Primary Care
NEW RESEARCH AFFILIATE Peter Kellett Ph.D. RN is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences and a Research Affiliate of the Prentice Institute for Global Population and Economy at the University of Lethbridge. He holds a Master of Nursing degree in population nursing epidemiology), and a Ph.D. in Theoretical and Computational Science Demography). His research interests include men’s health (especially mental health), transgender health, LGBTQ+ health, social demography, and the intersection of social hierarchies and health at a population level. He is particularly interested in exploring the interaction between gender, sexual orientation, other social hierarchies, in relation to health outcomes. Peter has worked for the last 22 years as a registered nurse, nurse educator, and manager, in both provincial and federal (FNIHB) health systems in three Canadian provinces, and one U.S. State, in the areas of medical/surgical care, emergency care, primary health care, community health, and First Nations health. He also runs the website Gender and Population Studies (GAPS) in Health.
Research Project Goal: This qualitative study plans to explore the factors that influence rural southern Albertan trans-persons' ability to attain health and access primary care health services. The plan is for these findings to inform education and guidelines for improving the inclusivity and accessibility of primary care services for trans-persons in rural communities in Alberta. https://www.researchgate.net/project/ TRANS-forming-Rural-Primary-Care
Dr. Julia Brassolotto is the AIHS Research Chair in Rural Health and Well-being and a Research Affiliate of the Prentice Institute at the University of Lethbridge
Breaking the silence of racism injuries: a community-driven study Research Affiliates Bonnie Lee and Peter Kellett Injuries resulting from racism are largely hidden by silence. Community services to provide healing from racism are missing in at least one Canadian city. The purpose of this paper is to identify the injuries suffered by immigrants who experienced racism and discuss the development of culturally appropriate programs and tools to address injuries from racism. Bonnie Lee, Peter Kellett, Kamal Seghal, Corina Van den Berg, (2017) "Breaking the silence of racism injuries: a community-driven study", International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care, https://doi.org/10.1108/IJMHSC-01-2016-0003
NEW RESEARCH AFFILIATE Dr. Yale D. Belanger Ph.D. is a Professor of Political Science. His doctoral work at Trent University focused on the emergence and evolution of Aboriginal political organizations in late 19th- and early 20th-century Canada. Dr. Belanger is a leading scholar of Indigenous Studies whose research breaks new ground in the understanding of First Nations’ gambling enterprises, urban Aboriginal policy, and the role of federal housing policy in addressing homelessness among Aboriginal peoples. He is a member of the Royal Society of Canada, College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists whose scholarly monographs, refereed papers, textbooks, technical reports and public engagement have all made important contributions to policy,
Our new Research Affiliate, Yale Belanger, joins The College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists - Royal Society of Canada
“Being named to The Royal Society is a real honour for me,” says Belanger. “The U of L also benefits by having the quality of scholarly work and research being conducted here highlighted. As an alum who finished his BA in 1998 only to return as a faculty member, this is an especially proud moment.”
NEW RESEARCH AFFILIATE Maura Hanrahan is a Board of Governors Research Chair (Tier II) and Associate Professor in the Department of Native American Studies at the University of Lethbridge. She is also an adjunct professor with Memorial University's Environmental Policy Institute. She has degrees from Memorial University, Carleton University, and the London School of Economics where she was a Rothermere Fellow. Her current research interests are: drinking water policy affecting Indigenous and rural communities; Arctic history; the Newfoundland Mi'Kmaq. Straight from the heavens into your bucket�: domestic rainwater harvesting as a measure to improve water security in a subarctic indigenous community The Rocky Path to Source Water Protection: A Cross-Case Analysis of Drinking Water Crises in Small Communities in Canada Water (in)security in Canada: national identity and the exclusion of Indigenous peoples Enduring polar explorers’ Arctic imaginaries and the promotion of neoliberalism and colonialism in modern Greenland
LOOKING NORTH/Arctic explorers, Indigenous knowledge Prentice Institute Research Affiliate Maura Hanrahan delves into the expeditions and Inuit interactions of Newfoundland and Labrador's Capt. Bob Bartlett Arctic explorers, such as Newfoundland and Labrador's Captain Bob Bartlett, had different attitudes as they interacted with the Inuit during their ventures into frigid, unknown territory a century ago. Bartlett believed he could learn from Indigenous people — which was self-benefiting since it ultimately helped his attempts to reach the North Pole in the early 1900s, according to Maura Hanrahan, the Board of Governors Research Chair in Indigenous Studies and Prentice Institute Research Affiliate at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta. She is also the author of Unchained Man: The Arctic Life and Times of Captain Robert Abram Bartlett which will be published next spring. "I think he would have been introduced to their knowledge as a child," she told CBC's Ted Blades, host of On the Go. Hanrahan said Bartlett's family had a fishing station close to Makkovik, in Labrador, and he would have gone there in the summers with his father. "They were familiar with the Inuit, the Inuit would not have been exotic — to use the language of the time — to them as they would have been to other people," she said. .. Listen to the full Looking North: Arctic explorers, Indigenous knowledge podcast here. For more On the Go podcasts, click here.
Dr. Maura Hanrahan says that residents of rural and remote communities, many of which are indigenous, face the problem of trying to find potable water every day of their lives.
Hanrahan earns Parkland grant, to study water security in Metis communities For the vast majority of Canadians, the concept of not having readily available drinking water is literally foreign – something only developing countries have to face. Unfortunately, residents of rural and remote communities, many of which are indigenous, face the problem of trying to find potable water every day of their lives. University of Lethbridge professor Dr. Maura Hanrahan has studied this problem and is currently embarking on a research project to examine the state of water security in Métis communities in Alberta. Her work has earned her the support of the Parkland Institute as the recipient of the Parkland Institute/U of L Faculty Research Grant.
Research Affiliate Raphael Lencucha
Disentangling regional trade agreements, trade flows and tobacco affordability in sub-Saharan Africa Adriana Appau, Jeffrey Drope, Ronald Labonté, Michal Stoklosa and Raphael Lencucha Globalization and Health201713:81 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12992-017-0305-x In principle, trade and investment agreements are meant to boost economic growth. However, the removal of trade barriers and the provision of investment incentives to attract foreign direct investments may facilitate increased trade in and/or more efficient production of commodities considered harmful to health such as tobacco. We analyze existing evidence on trade and investment liberalization and its relationship to tobacco trade in Sub-Saharan African countries. We compare tobacco trading patterns to foreign direct investments made by tobacco companies. We estimate and compare changes in the Konjunkturforschungsstelle (KOF) Economic Globalization measure, relative price measure and cigarette prices. Raphael Lencucha is an affiliate of the Prentice Institute and an assistant professor in the School of Physical and Occupational Therapy at McGill University.
Take Two Series: Understanding Childhood and Difference
RESEARCH AFFILIATE JAN NEWBERRY In October of 2017 Educational expert Jeffrey MacCormack spoke about his work on social play and play-based interventions for children and youth experiencing difficulty socializing and regulating emotions. Anthropologist Jan Newberry discussed her “Raising Spirit” work with the Opokaa-sin Society Early Intervention Society to explore identity through children’s stories and images. Using diverse methods, both researchers examined childhood capacity building. Jeffrey MacCormack | Faculty of Education Jan Newberry | Anthropology
Research Affiliate Olu Awosoga
Student recruitment needs culture classes Financial issues are not the central barriers to increased university access in Canada. It is cultural factors that must be tackled, say Ross Finnie, Arthur Sweetman and Research Affiliate Richard Mueller.
The impact of mobile technologies on new graduate nurses’ perceived self-efficacy and clinical decision making: A report from a longitudinal study in Western Canada Monique Sedgwick, Olu Awosoga, Lance Grigg
A widely held belief in Canada, as in many countries, is that expanding access to tertiary education is integral to improving national productivity. It also plays into the Canadian sense of equality of opportunity and the just society. In addition, Canada is not alone in beginning to experience a decreasing labour force participation rate as the baby boomer generation enters retirement. Even the country’s large immigration flows are not sufficient to compensate for the labour force shrinkage. This puts additional pressure on productivity; across the 20 largest members of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, this would need to increase at an average of 0.4 per cent per year to offset the loss of gross domestic product per capita….
Times Higher Education World University Ranking July 27, 2017 https://www.timeshighereducation.com/
Healthcare environments require practitioners to competently and independently collect pertinent data, select appropriate key resources, prioritize information, solve problems, and make sound clinical decisions. The steady increase of health-related information implies a need for useful, practical Information and Communication Technology (ICT) tools that easily provide nurses’ access to accurate evidence-based information. The purpose of this study was to explore the impact of using mobile technologies at the point of care on new graduates’ perceived clinical decision making ability and associated level of self-efficacy over time. A longitudinal quasi-experimental pre-test/post-test design was used. A trend in the findings of this small study suggests that over time, using mobile technologies at the point of care did not enhance the participants’ perceived clinical decision making ability or self-efficacy in clinical decision making. Notwithstanding, the use of mobile technologies in the practice setting is wide spread. It, however, may be that the transition from student to graduate nurse is a significant enough event that seriously limits the useful influence of mobile devices and their associated applications on clinical decision making ability and self-efficacy. SCIEDU Journal of Hospital Administration Vol 6, No 6(2017)
RESEARCH AFFILIATE REG BIBBY
...who is without question, amazing! Reg is putting the wraps on the complete draft of a new book (another one!) on youth (working title, The Millennial Mosaic: How Diversity and Choice A re Shaping Y outh and the Future of Canada). It is based on cross-sectional, trend, and cohort data. He co-authors with two young academics from Ambrose University. in Calgary - Joel Thiessen and Monetta Bailey. Joel already has books with Oxford and McGill-Queen's (one is co-authored with Lorne Dawson, University of Waterloo. Monetta is a freshly-minted PhD.
Research Affiliate Heidi MacDonald
Vatican II and Beyond The Changing Mission and Identity of Canadian Women Religious By Rosa Bruno-JofrĂŠ, Heidi MacDonald and Elizabeth M. Smyth
Thursday Dec 7, 2017
The Prentice Institute Brown Bag Series - 2017 As usual we had an informative array of Brown Bag Lectures this term and continue to work on our next sessions. We encourage you to watch our webpage for upcoming Brown Bags events.
October 6, 2017 “Theoretical and political implications of conceptualizing “nations” and “ethnies”: Iran’s ethnic question revisited” Presenter: University of Lethbridge Visiting Scholar Dr. Kavous Seyed-Emami, Professor of Sociology, Faculty of Islamic Studies and Political Science, Imam Sadeq University of Tehran, Iran November 9, 2017 “Development from our backs: Gender, Race, Labour and Migration Development is a contested concept, or is it a practice? From an interdisciplinary perspective, the idea of development is problematized relative to gender, race, labour and migration in post-colonial and globalized world in the 21st century.” Presenter: Glenda Tibe Bonifacio, PhD. Associate Professor, Women & Gender Studies, University of Lethbridge and Research Affiliate, Prentice Institute for Global Population & Economy.
Watch for upcoming Brown Bag lectures in 2018: January 19, 2018 Prentice Affiliate Sharon Yanicki & Vivien Suttorp February 1, 2018 Prentice Affiliate Maura Hanrahan February 16, 2018 Prentice Affiliate Yale Belanger March 16, 2018 Prentice Affiliate Julia Brassolotto
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