Summer 2017 Edition
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Printed version of the John Porter Book Prize Lecture by Prentice Institute Research Affiliate Abdie Kazemipur: Bringing the Social Back In-On the Integration of Muslim Immigrants and the Jurisprudence of Muslim Minorities is now in the Canadian Review of Sociology / Revue canadienne de sociologie
Dr. Abdie Kazemipur begins his new position at the University of Calgary in the Department of Sociology as Chair of Ethnic Studies
One of the UofL 50 voices is Research Affiliate Jean Harrowing, who received a Bachelor of Arts and Science in Biological Sciences from the University of Lethbridge in 1978. She obtained a diploma in Nursing at Lethbridge College, and has worked as a Registered Nurse in Southern Alberta for 35 years. Jean joined the Faculty of Health Sciences in 2002 and completed her Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing in 2009.
Christmastime jump in church attendance shows faith matters to Canadians At Christmastime the pews of Canada's Catholic churches fill up with people celebrating the holiday season.
CBC News Posted: Dec 19, 2016 4:00 AM CT Last Updated: Dec 19, 2016 4:00 AM CT
Prentice Institute Research Affiliate Reg Bibby, Church attendance triples across Canada at Christmas. At Christmastime the pews of Canada’s Catholic churches fill up with people celebrating the holiday season. (Holly Caruk/CBC)
Church attendance triples - from 25 to 65 per cent - across the country at Christmas and Board of Governors Research Chair in Sociology at the University of Lethbridge Reginald Bibby says it shows that faith matters. In the new analysis The Christmas Clue to Catholicism, co-written with Bibby and Angus Reid of the Angus Reid Institute, it shows that while most
of the 12 million Canadians who identify as Catholic might not head into the halls of the local cathedral or church each week, they don't consider themselves less Catholic. Information from the analysis was gathered from a 2014 Christmas Survey and a 2015 Religion Survey. Ran on the page 2 in the National Post and all the big regional dailies Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Ottawa, Saskatoon, Regina, London, Windsor, and Montreal.
Watch for Prentice Institute Post Doc Zehan Pan's forthcoming co-authored article: “The Effects of Labour Migration on Rural Household Production in Inland China: Do Landform Conditions Matter?” Population, Space and Place.
Research Affiliate Trevor Harrison Trevor Harrison is Director of Parkland Institute. He is a Professor of Sociology in the Faculty of Arts and Science at the University of Lethbridge and Research Affiliate of the Prentice Institute for Global Population and Economy.
Is the NDP making things worse? Media | Aug 30, 2016
Antiquated neoliberalism and Alberta Media | Apr 22, 2016
Parkland Institute Director Trevor Harrison responds to an August 25, 2016 editorial in The Calgary Herald which accused the Alberta government of "blithely following a path of reckless borrowing."
"There is no easy way out of Alberta’s fiscal mess," writes Parkland Institute Director Trevor Harrison. "Alberta must find new revenue streams and must break free of oil dependency. The transition will be hard."
States have interests, not friends Media | Feb 02, 2017 Canada, writes Parkland Institute Director Trevor Harrison, is about to relearn the truth in the old maxim, "States do not have friends; they have interests." Trevor Harrison attended the 11th Annual International Conference on Sociology that took place on 1-4 May 2017 in Athens, Greece. https://www.atiner.gr/sociology https://www.facebook.com/atiner.athens
Where are they now? Prentice Institute Post Doctoral Fellows - Our Ambassadors Ali Fakih, former Prentice Institute Post-Doc, Assistant Professor, Adnan Kassar School of Business, Lebanese American University, Beirut Andrew Patterson, will be contract faculty 2017-2018, Sociology, University of Alberta Daniel Dutton - former Prentice Institute Post-Doc, now Post-Doc at School of Public Policy, UofCalgary Jing Shen - former Prentice Institute Post-Doc, Researcher at University of Mannheim, Germany Katrin Komp, former Prentice Institute Post-Doc, Adjunct Faculty Member, Department of Social Research, University of Helsinki, Finland Lichun Willa Liu - former Prentice Institute Post-Doc, now Associate Scholar, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education Sara Zella - former Prentice Institute Post-Doc, now Research Fellow at The Oxford Institute of Population Ageing, Seong-Gee Um, former Prentice Institute Post-Doc, Research Fellow, Wellesley Institute, Toronto. Ye Oscar Liu - former Prentice Institute Post-Doc, Associate Professor at the School of Geography and Planning Sun Yat-sen University, China Zehan Pan, will be returning to China as Assistant Professor.
Final defense: Trina Burgess, Master s, “Residential Location of Millennials: A Calgary Case Study,” 25 April 2017. Trina was one of the 2016 recipients of the Society of Edmonton Demographers Scholarship. As the recipient of the SED Scholarship, she presented her Masters research at the Kalbach Population Conference, University of Alberta in 2016. Prentice Institute’s Peter Kellett’s thesis defense, first Ph.D. in Demography at UofL
Unveiling a Socio-demographic Portrait of Canadian Men’s Depression & Suicidal Ideation: Exploring the Intersectional Impact of Socio-demographic Hierarchies on Depression & Suicidal Ideation Among Canadian Men Ph.D. Committee team from left to right: Dr. David Hay (U of L History) - Committee Chair Dr. Susan McDaniel (Director, Prentice Institute) - Co-Supervisor Peter Kellett Dr. Brad Hagen (Professor Emeritus, U of L) - Co-Supervisor Dr. Steve Robertson (Leeds-Beckett University, UK) - External Dr. Cheryl Currie (U of L Public Health) - Committee Member Dr. Olu Awosoga (U of L Health Sciences) - Committee Member Dr. Paul Vasey (U of L Psychology) - Internal
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The Story Bridge: From Bhutan to Lethbridge, a Journey in Community Was screened at the 2017 Central Alberta Film Festival
Screening available by appointment. j.bingley@uleth.ca
“This screening of the Story Bridge honoured the community and their process of building cohesion through community filmmaking.” Jeff Bingley, M.A., Prentice Institute Research Assistant. Jeff completed his M.A. in 2016 under the supervision of Susan McDaniel.
Prentice Associate Director Alexander Darku in Ghana, Africa and Berlin, Germany. Alexander Darku presented “Economic Openness and Growth in the Developing World” at a conference and taught Advanced Macroeconomic Theory to PhD students at the University of Ghana.
Alexanders undergraduate roommate who is also a university teacher in Ghana.
Africa’s Economic Transformation within the Context of the G-20 Partnership with Africa May 2017 Africa’s economic transformation in the context of the G20 Partnership with Africa aims to bring together relevant stakeholders to exchange views, share approaches, and frame the discussion around Africa’s transformation needs. Economic transformation has now become the consensus paradigm for Africa’s sustainable
Africa. Led by the African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET), “Africa’s Economic Transformation in the Context of the G20 Partnership with Africa” aims to bring together relevant
development. It sits at the center of the African Union’s Agenda 2063 and is an integral element of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations, as well as long-term strategies endorsed in recent years by the African Development Bank and the Economic Commission for
stakeholders to exchange views, share approaches, and frame the discussion around Africa’s transformation needs within the context of the G20 Partnership with Africa.
Venue: Akademie Berlin, Tiergartenstraße 35, Berlin, Germany.
Annual Meeting of the Canadian Population Society May - June 2017 Ryerson University, Toronto Prentice Institute Research Analyst Adébiyi Germain Boco presents “Income inequality and adolescent motherhood: A multilevel analysis in 33 Sub-Saharan African countries” And Research Affiliate Michael Haan, University of Western Ontario presents “Policy change and social change: Families' use of parental benefits in Canada 1998-2012” with Rachel Margolis, Western Ontario and Feng Hou, Statistics Canada
Prentice Institute Post Doc Andrew Patterson presents at Canadian Sociological Society in Toronto “Electoral Institutions, Population Health, and Consideration of Macro-Economic Correlates: A Bayesian Approach” in the session Problematizing policy II: Roundtable And co-authored with Susan McDaniel, “Economic Growth and Population Health: A Critical Exploration and Proposed Framework” in the session Social Equity and Policy Implications
Migration and Development in China: Introduction The China Review, Vol. 16, No. 3 (October 2016), 1–7 Jianfa Shen and Wei Xu
Wei Xu is a Professor in the Department of Geography and Prentice Institute Research Affiliate, University of Lethbridge. From 2007 to present, Dr. Xu has been a visiting Professor at the Center for Modern Chinese City Studies, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China, and at the Institute of Population
Retiring Research Affiliate Sharon Yanicki Congratulations
Research, Fudan University, Shanghai, China. His expertise lies in urban and regional development and sustainable resource management. His current research includes labor market dynamics, land development, urban development and industrial upgrading in China, and resource management and governance in Canada.
Congratulations to Research Affiliates UofL Long Service Recognition 15 Years Tr evor Har r ison, Janice Newberry and John Usher 10 Years Glenda Bonifacio and Shar on Yanicki
Society of Edmonton Demographers 2017 Annual Warren E. Kalbach Population Conference Distinguis hed Dem ogra pher ’s K ey note Addr ess: Prentice Research Affiliate Kevin McQuillan, PhD, Deputy Provost , Department of Sociology Professor, University of Calgary Are We Missing the Big Picture? The Focus on Individual Level Data in Demographic Research At its core, demography has always focused on change in the size and structure of human populations. Demographers examine change in rates of fertility and mortality and migration, and in the distribution and
age structure of populations. With the emergence of survey data, demographers increasingly switched to micro level analysis, focusing on how the characteristics of individuals affect their behaviour – how does education affect the number of children ever born, for example. This research has greatly
increased our understanding of population issues but has also directed attention away from important questions that can only be studied at the aggregate or population level. In this talk, I explore some of those questions and argue for a better balance between micro and macro approaches to the study of population.
@SocietyEdmDemog scholarship winner is Syed Hammad Ali, a PhD candidate, from @uLethbridge @PrenticInst who presented @SocietyEdmDemog Feb 13. #WEK2017 #gradstudent In 2015, Susan McDaniel gave the Distinguished Demographers keynote
Prentice now has FOUR recipients of the Society of Edmonton Demographers Scholarship! This scholarship is provided by a generous gift to the Prentice Institute in recognition of our leadership role in Demography and Population Studies. It is to be awarded by application and competition to a graduate student who is meritorious and is pursuing a graduate research degree in Demography or Population Studies at the University of Lethbridge.
Scholarship recipients include: Peter Kellett, Ph.D. Candidate: Peter’s Ph.D. is a socio-demographic portrait of men’s depression: Exploring the Intersectional Impact of Socio-Demographic Hierarchies and Generational Cohort Membership among Canadian men Trina Burgess, Masters student: Trina’s Masters research is a study of preferences, choices and structural characteristics for housing and
neighbourhood among Millennials in Calgary
Syed Hammad Ali, Ph.D. student: Syed’s Ph.D. research is on religious identities of Muslim minorities in Canada Victoria Holec, Ph.D. student: Victoria’s Ph.D. is studying Millennials in Canada by looking past stereotypes to how sociopolitical factors influence identities
‘Inequality is the root of social evil,’ or Maybe Not? Two Stories about Inequality and Public Policy Income inequality is on the rise, and everyone, from President Obama and Pope Francis to Prince Charles and Standard & Poor's, is talking about it. But these conversations about what are arguably the most significant changes in the distribution of incomes and earnings since the 1940s are leading to very different views on how public policy should respond. This is as true in Canada as it is in almost all of the other rich countries where inequality has risen. In this paper, I tell two stories about inequality-
one from the perspective of those who feel it is not a problem worth the worry, and the other from the perspective of those who see it as the defining challenge of our timeto clarify the issues facing Canadians and what public policy should do about them.
Canadian Public Policy, 2016/12, vol 42, issue 4, 367414, University Toronto Press.
Economics for public policy Miles Corak writes on economics that matters
Prentice Institute Research Affiliate Miles Corak is professor at the University of Ottawa trained in labour economics, and working on child rights, poverty, immigration, social and economic mobility, unemployment, and social policy.
Employment and Social Development Canada names Miles Corak as Economist in Residence February 7, 2017 Gatineau, Quebec Employment and Social Development Canada This new position was created to provide the Department with external expertise on policy priorities. The mandate of the Economist in Residence is to provide rigorous and objective advice on a range of key policy issues, including Employment Insurance, demographic changes, and the Poverty Reduction Strategy. Miles Corak has taught at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa since 2007, teaching principles of economics in a way that is relevant for public policy. He also taught labour economics, social policy, and statistical research methods. Before joining the University of Ottawa he was a member of senior management at Statistics Canada. He has also been a visiting researcher with: the UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre in Florence Italy, the Centre for Longitudinal Studies at the University of London, the Office of Population Research at Princeton University, the Russell Sage Foundation in New York City. He was also a visiting professor with the Department of Economics at Harvard University. Miles Corak holds a BA in economics and political science and an MA in economics from McGill University. He completed his PhD at Queen’s University.
Research Affiliate Glenda Bonifacio was keynote luncheon speaker at CFUW (Canadian Federation of University Women) Alberta Council Conference on Apr il 29 at the Lethbr idge Lodge. Title of presentation: “Schism and Activism: Immigration and the Challenges of the Times.”
New media and biochemistry students collaborate to create game teaching advanced biochemistry processes Tuesday, June 6, 2017 Research Affiliate James Graham had his hand in this collaborative game when he was approached in his New Media Game Design, Theory and Production class.
A panel presented at the University of Lethbridge's SPARK conference on teaching, 27-28 April, 2017.
‘A pair of third-year University of Lethbridge classes, one in biochemistry and the other in new media, unknowingly shared a synergy until the AGILITY program brought them together. The end result is a new game that could enhance the learning process of one of the most difficult courses in biochemistry and provide a deeper understanding of the value of collaboration and the game creation process.’
Research paper presentations Susan McDaniel and Jeffrey Bingley, “Bhutanese Refugees in Southern Alberta: The Story Bridge,” Canadian Association for Refugees and Forced Migration Studies, University of Victoria, 15-18 May 2017. (Bingley is a recent Masters graduate of McDaniel’s)
Prentice Post Doc Andrew Patterson and Susan McDaniel, “Economic Growth and Population Health: A Critical Explanation and Proposed Framework,” Canadian Sociological Association, 29 May – 1 June 2017, Ryerson, University, Toronto.
Congratulations - Prentice Affiliate Bonnie Lee
We would like to honor Dr. Bonnie Lee for her significant contributions to the development of the Satir Model through theoretical conceptualization, clinical application, clinical research and academic publications. Bonnie is an Associate Professor at Lethbridge University in Canada. She is also a Clinical Fellow with the American Association of Marriage and Family and a Social Worker.
with her doctoral dissertation where she focused on the spiritual, philosophical, ritual and empirical significance of Satir’s work. Then, in 2002, she developed the Congruence Scale and more recently, in 2009, she operationalized congruence, as “attending, awareness, acknowledgement and alignment” in the four dimensions of intrapsychic, interpersonal, intergenerational and universalspiritual. Bonnie has also developed a structured program for couples dealing with problem gambling and a successful research control trial of that program in 2015.
This program is absolutely ground -breaking, since gambling addiction is often a treatment for the addict and not for the addict and the spouse. Conceptualizing the issue as relational is revolutionary. In recognition of her creativity and innovation in advancing a relational framework in the field of addiction and mental health, she was awarded the University of Lethbridge Board of Governors Research Chair (Tier II) in Healthy Futures (2016-19). Congratulations Bonnie!
Bonnie’s focus on Satir began International Sociological Association Current Sociology @CurrentSociolog May 2 Meet our #SociologistOfTheMonth @SusanMcDaniel3 @uLethbridge & find out how she came to #sociology at http://bit.ly/2qtqf4y
UofL Masters Student Aw arded Prestigious Honor Yanjun Shi, who studies under Research Affiliate Bonnie Lee, is one of 13 Alberta graduate students to receive the Alberta SPOR Graduate Studentship in Patient-Oriented Research – the first time for a U of L student. The award comes with $30,000 in funding for one year, along with mentoring and training opportunities in patient-oriented research.
Is Canada’s health-care system ready for our rapidly greying population? Dr. Susan McDaniel Global News interview As the aging of the country’s population continues to accelerate, experts warn Canada desperately needs to invest more in home care to meet the needs of its elderly citizens. The Canadian Press © 2017 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.
Lethbridge Historical Society 'Climate Historic and Future' Tuesday, April 25, 2017 Dr. James (Jim) Byrne, professor of Geography and Prentice Institute Research Affiliate presented on the Lethbridge climate over time. The 1967 snow storms are seen in historical climate context. Many other storms are related to dramatic changes in our climate and weather in the next few decades.
Peter Kellett, Prentice Institute Ph.D. Candidate School of Nursing, UofL
Aging boomers highlight need to bring more men into caregiving profession
Erin Anderssen, The Globe and Mail, Published Friday, Jan. 13, 2017, updated Friday, Jan. 13, 2017
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Education is key to integration While universities in parts of the West worry about immigration crackdowns, favourable political winds are allowing Canada’s institutions to flourish This is the first of quarterly pieces that the three will be doing for Times Higher Education. Richard E. Mueller is professor at the University of Lethbridge, Prentice Institute Research Affiliate and Associate Director of Education Policy Research Initiative (EPRI)
April 13, 2017
Meeting the Federal Requirement for a Price on Carbon: Which approach is right for New Brunswick? Prentice Institute Research Affiliate J.C. Herbert Emery, Vaughan Chair in Regional Economics, Director of the Policy Studies March 16, 2017
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY By 2018, New Brunswick will have a price on carbon by way of a carbon tax, a Cap & trade
system or a hybrid of the two approaches. The province of New Brunswick’s Climate Change Action Plan, along with the federal mandate for a carbon price, means that carbon pricing for New Brunswick is no longer just an environmental issue -- it is a regulatory issue.
Which carbon pricing mechanism - a carbon tax, Cap & trade or a hybrid of the two -- would work best in the context of New Brunswick’s economy, future aspirations for economic development, demographics, and trade relationships?
Congratulations to Patients’ Preferences and Trade-Offs McGill University in Choosing a Surgeon to Decrease sociology prof and Waiting Times Prentice Institute Research Affiliate Presented by: Tom Shelley Clark, awarded Noseworthy, Professor, Center for Advanced UofC and Prentice Institute Study in Behavioral Research Affiliate Sciences Fellowship for 2017-18
New Brunswick on its Way to Building a More Inclusive Democracy Electoral reform recommendations seek to build a bigger democratic tent and populate it with under-represented New Brunswickers By Prentice Institute Research Affiliate and professor of Economics at University of New Brunswick, Constantine Passaris New Brunswick, Troy Media Marketplace - March 14, 2017
“At the end of the day, democracy is a public good, owned by its citizens. The success of our democracy depends on the full and equal participants of all its citizens.” Prof. Constantine Passaris was appointed a member of the five member New Brunswick Electoral Reform Commission from 2016 - 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. February 3, 2017 James Graham, Associate Professor, Department of New Media, Faculty of Fine Arts, Prentice Institute Research Affiliate
The Public Professor as Private Corporation, for the Public Good
March 10, 2017 Brenda Leung, ND, PhD, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Lethbridge, Prentice Institute Research Affiliate
Demography of Mental Health and the Food (diet) Connection March 30, 2017 Glenda Bonifacio, Associate Professor Department of Women and Gender Studies Research Affiliate, Prentice Institute for Global Population and Economy
Gender and Labour Market Regimes in Post-disaster Communities: Trans-local Relations and Globality April 7, 2017 Mickey Vallee, Associate Professor of Cultural Studies, Athabasca University and Prentice Institute Research Affiliate
Chk-a-dee-dee-dee and other lines of flight: The New Soundscape Ecology
May 1, 2017 Steve Robertson, Professor, School of Health & Community Studies Leeds Beckett University, England.
Conversation on Men's Health
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