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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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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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Introductions and Networking
The Prentice Institute Welcomes our newest research affiliate Dr. Herbert Emery
Introducing Matt Kerr Matt is cur r ently assisting Susan McDaniel with research for the Gender, Migration and Work of Care project. He is a first year Masters student within the department of sociology working with Dr. Trevor Harrison. With a keen interest in current events, geopolitics, history and environmental issues, his interests are quite multidisciplinary. After two years working on a BSc in neuroscience, Matt decided to switch to a B.A in sociology; there, he completed an independent study focusing on the development of Marxist theory and graduated with distinction in spring, 2012.
Dr . Emer y r eceived his BA(Honour s) in Economics from Queen’s University in 1988 and a PhD in economics from the University of British Columbia in 1993. He has taught at the University of Calgary since 1993, where he is currently a Professor of Economics and the Program Director, Health Policy in the School of Public Policy. He is also the Managing Editor of Canadian Public Policy/ Analyse de olotiques. Watch for Dr. Emery’s Prentice Upcoming Spring 2015 Brown Bag Lecture
Welcome Matt!
Canada’s former Chief Statistician and distinguished speaker for the Prentice Institute in 2013, Dr. Munir Sheikh Speaks on TedxCalgary
Canadian Research Data Centre Network 2014 National Conference
"Investing in Our Futures" 29-31 October 2014 Winnipeg, Manitoba Perceived Financial Well-Being of Canadians in Mid to Later Life: A Longitudinal and Multi-Method Analysis
Nov 2014 Munir Sheikh @TEDx talk: nation-building needs good data https: www.youtube.com
Susan A. McDaniel, FRSC, Pr entice Institute, UofL Adébiyi Germain Boco, Pr entice Institute, UofL Amber Gazso, Sociology, Yor k Univer sity Karen A. Duncan, Family Social Sciences, UofManitoba
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Pamela Winsor, Prentice Institute Research Affiliate CODE and DFATD to Help 40,000 Kenyan Children to Improve their Literacy Skills Tr ainer of Tr ainer wor kshop CODE' s new R eading K enya pr ogr am star ted on May 5, 2014 at the Southern Blue Hotel in Nairobi. Dr. Pamela Winsor was in Nairobi, late August 2014 for the second of three training workshops. Led by two Kenyan and two Canadian consultants - Dr. Pamela Winsor, from the University of Lethbridge, and Dr. Angela Ward, from the University of Saskatchewan, workshop participants focused on three specific strategies in addition to wide ranging discussions of oral language development: Story-telling, Read-alouds and Language Experience Approach to Literacy (LEA). The August workshop provided an opportunity for sharing experiences and addressing any challenges encountered before learning new strategies. In all, enthusiasm for improved literacy teaching is high and everyone involved awaits future opportunities for learning together. www.codecan.org
Prentice Affiliate Dr. Tom Noseworthy wins 2014 CIHR Barer-Flood Prize in Health Services and Policy Research Award recognizes an exceptional researcher who has made a positive impact on healthcare. Sept 30, 2014 – Banff, Alberta – Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
Dr . Nosewor thy received the awar d for his outstanding contr ibutions in the field of health ser vices and policy r esearch where his work has focused on improving access to care and minimizing wait times. Canada's Minister of Health Rona Ambrose and Alberta's Minister of Health Stephen Mandel today presented the 2014 CIHR Barer-Flood Prize in Health Services and Policy Research to Dr. Tom Noseworthy at a reception for delegates attending the Federal, Provincial and Territorial Health Ministers Meeting in Banff, Alberta. They were joined by Dr. Alain Beaudet, President of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), and Dr. Robyn Tamblyn, Scientific Director of the CIHR Institute of Health Services and Policy Research. ww.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/48765.html Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money. Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
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In The New Continues New affiliate Herb Emery
Congratulations to our Research Affiliates
The American Anthropological Association and Oxford University Press are pleased to announce the recipient of the 2014 AAA/Oxford Teaching Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching of Anthropology Dr. Jan Newberry. ~and~ Dr. Jon Doan and research partner Dr. Olu Awosoga of the Faculty of Health Sciences and Prentice Institute Research Affiliate have been awarded one of two annual Parkland Institute grants. This award creates opportunity to study the situation of health and wellness of rural daycare workers.
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Prentice Institute Research Affiliate Recognized as University Scholar
Prentice Research Affiliate Cheryl Currie Sees Change on the Horizon Friday, June 17, 2014
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talented faculty members more actively pursue their respective research areas by granting them financial resources as well as time to further explore their interests,” says Associate Vice-President (Research) Lesley Brown.
The findings of the 2014 United Nations r eport on human rights situations of Indigenous peoples in Canada wasn’t a surprise to Dr. Cheryl Currie. She is well aware of the well-being gap between the Indigenous and nonIndigenous people in Canada. This gap does not show any signs, as of yet, of narrowing. However, Dr. Currie is convinced that many areas in the lives of the Indigenous peoples of Canada sit ready for change. This takes collaboration between all interested parties in the area of Aboriginal health and well-being. She is more than ready to continue to dedicate her professional life to partner with Aboriginal people to accomplish this task. In her own words: ““It’s time to start looking at factors that contribute to Aboriginal wellness; to take the “risk factor” approach we’ve utilized in the past, flip it around and highlight things that actually have a positive impact on the lives of Indigenous people. This is an exciting time. The stage is set for change, and I’m ready to go to work.”
Dr. Kazemipur is an outstanding scholar whose work focuses on understanding the role religion and sociopolitical development play within Muslim populations. He will continue this work by investigating the integration of Muslim populations into western liberal-democracies. He will also be looking at the secularization and interplay of Islam and democracy in the Middle-Eastern countries of Iran, Turkey and Egypt. As he continues with his project, Dr. Kazemipur hopes to add a Canadian voice and perspective to this timely topic. www.uleth.ca/unews/article/faculty-members-nameduniversity-scholars
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Reg Bibby, Prentice Institute Research Affiliate in the news
Jing Shen, Prentice Institute Post-doctoral Fellow Publication
Canadians prefer ‘Christmas’ to ‘Holiday Season’
Recent Trends in Gender Wage Inequality in the United States
A significant number – more than half – say the religious aspect of Christmas still comes first An online survey of more than 1,500 Canadian adults by the Angus Reid Institute and University of Lethbridge sociologist Dr. Reginald Bibby shows that eight out of 10 respondents preferred to use the term ‘Christmas.’
Journal of Sociological Research ISSN 1948-5468 2014, Vol. 5, No.1 The Prentice Institute for Global Population and Economy
Search Uof L or Angus Reid website for full story.
Prentice Research Affiliate Sharon Yanicki Publication Social inclusion/exclusion as matter of social (in)justice: a call f or nursing act ion. Nursing Inquiry Sharon M Yanicki, Kaysi E Kushner and Linda Reutter Uni versity of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Uni versity of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada DO1: 10.1111/nin.12076
Prentice Research Affiliates Ivan Townshend and Olu Awosoga along with Judith Kulig and LingLing Fan publish their work.
Social cohesion and resilience across communities that have experienced a disaster Accepted: 11 November 2014 ©Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014
Don't be a novelist --- be a statistician. Much more scope for the imagination."--- Darrell Huff " 5
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Prentice Institute Research Affiliate Jim Byrne and Leanne Little, Prentice Editorial Assistant, Join the Largest Attended Earth Space Science AGU Fall Meeting in California
AGU’s (American Geophysical Union) Fall Meeting in San Francisco, with nearly 24,000 attendees, is the largest earth and space science meeting in the world. This year’s conference, December 15-19, saw Professor Jim Byrne, Geography and Prentice Institute Research Affiliate and Leanne Little, BA, B.Ed. and Prentice Institute Editorial Assistant, participating along with four of Dr. Byrne’s students.
Jim Byrne Climate Change: Impacts, Resilience, Vulnerability, Adaptation, and Mitigation II, III – Sessions Chair Experience -Based Learning: Enhancing Understanding by Expanding the Limits of the Classroom – Session Chair Integrated Resource Management at a Watershed Scale – Invited Paper (with Celeste Barnes & others) Regional Renewable Energy Cooperatives – Co-author Defining Canadian Perspectives on Climate Change Science and Solutions – Student Poster Green Cities, Smart People and Climate Change – Student Poster High Resolution Modelling of Crop Response to Climate Change – Student Poster Elk River Watershed – Flood Study – Student Poster (Celeste Barnes)
Jim Byrne and Leanne Little Climate Literacy: Approaches to Multidisciplinary Climate Education in Higher Education Institutions I, II, III – Sessions Chairs Passionate Perspectives: Global Change Emersion in Southwestern Dust and Waters – Invited Paper A Way Forward: Cooperative Solutions to Our Climate Challenges - Poster
Susan McDaniel, and Pr entice Institute Research Affiliates Herb Emery and Kevin McQuillan, were panelists at the School of Public Policy Forum in Calgary on Dec 11, 2014. The discussions centred around Labour Market Challenges in Canada: Evidence-Based Labour Market Policy Looking Forward to 2030.
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Special Issue, Canadian Studies in Population Journal Guest Editor Susan McDaniel, Prentice Institute for Global Population and Economy Articles published by several Prentice Research Affiliates and our Prentice Research Analyst Articles Susan A. McDaniel. “Global and Canadian population and beyond.” Michael Haan, Deatra Walsh , Barbara Neis. “At the crossroads: Geography, gender and occupational sector in employment-related geographical mobility.” Li Yu , Wei Xu , Yu Zhu , Liyue Lin. “Geographic structure of migrant labor market in China: A case study of four city-regions in Fujian.” Adebiyi Germain Boco. “Assessing sex differ entials in under -five mortality in sub-Saharan Africa: A cross-national comparative analysis.” Alexander Bilson Darku. “Income inequality, status seeking, and savings rates in Canada.” Richard Mueller. “Wage differ entials of males and females in same-sex and different-sex couples in Canada, 2006–2010.” William Ramp. “Complicating food secur ity: Definitions, discour ses, commitments.”
The Prentice Institute Brown Bag Series – Fall 2014 Tuesday 16 Sept 2014 “Exceptional Circumstances: Climate Change and Governance” Nico Stehr, FRSC, Kar l Mannheim Pr ofessor of Cultur al Studies at the Zeppelin Univer sity, Ger many and International Research Affiliate of the Prentice Institute. Thursday 16 October 2014 “The Real and the Abstract: Thoughts on Greece and Turkey” Trevor Harrison, Pr ofessor of Sociology, Pr entice Institute Resear ch Affiliate and Director, Parkland Institute. Friday 24 October 2014 “Convergence or Divergence? Permanent and Temporary Migration in China, 1985-2005” Ye (Oscar) Liu, Postdoctor al Fellow, Depar tment of Geogr aphy, The Prentice Institute for Global Population and Economy, UofL Friday 14 November 2014 “Unveiling a Socio-demographic Portrait of Canadian Men’s Depression” Peter Kellett, Ph.D. Candidate, Health Sciences and Pr entice Institute Watch for our upcoming Winter 2015 Brown Bag Lectures and Café Conversation 7
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The buzz around the Prentice in pictures
Willa , Nancy and Susan at the UofL Blackstone Residence open house in June Jim Byrne and Susan McDaniel celebrating with Celeste Barnes On the occasion of her convocation, Masters degree
Prentice Institute Post Doc Oscar Liu, Masters Student Jeff Bingley, and Post docs Jing Shen, and Willa Liu in Waterton National Park
Nico Stehr Brown Bag in September
Susan and Boco ~ 2014 conference CRDCN Conference, Winnipeg
Alexander and Susan with Oscar after his Brown Bag in October
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