Prentice Post
Spring 2015
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Director’s Note As 2015 begins, we ar e looking for war d to ever better and bigger achievements for The Prentice Institute for Global Population and Economy. We extend to all our contacts and supporters very best wishes for this new year. We have already had our first Prentice Institute Brown Bag talk by Dr. Karen Duncan, Family Social Sciences, University if Manitoba. Karen is a research collaborator with me on the Canada/U.S. study funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. We have several other Brown Bag talks planned for this spring. We are also planning on our fourth Prentice Institute Café Conversations panel for this spring. These are public outreach events in the local community that complement our provincial national and international talks and outreach. Previous Prentice Institute Café Conversations panels were on Global Health, Climate Change, Labour/Skills shortages. The panel being planned will be on aspects of contemporary global turmoil, economic, social and political.
In Spring 2015, we will welcome two new Post-doctoral fellows, one from the University of Calgary, Daniel Dutton, and the other from the University of British Columbia, Andrew Patterson. Oscar Liu left us is November 2014 for a position at the University of Hong Kong. And Willa Liu’s (no relation to Oscar) post-doc fellowship of two years ended in December 2014. She is remaining at the University of Lethbridge for spring term 2015, teaching courses in Sociology on a term contract. Jing Shen continues with us for a second year. We wish all of our supporters and friends a wonderful 2015.
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Introductions and Networking
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Prentice in the News
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Prentice in Pictures
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Mission Statement The Prentice Institute does research on the changing human population and its potential impacts on social and economic issues, and communicates 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.
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We conduct and integrate research on the dynamics of Canadian and global demography and their impacts on economic wellbeing through migration, culture, trade and natural resource availability. We communicate widely the output of our work and that of others to stimulate further research and to enable individuals, governments, and corporations to make better-informed decisions. We educate students and future researchers.
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