10:30 am Fri. Jan. 24: Naomi Lightman
"Prisoner of Love or Commodification of Emotion? Care Work, Job Satisfaction and National Inequality"
Jerry White honoured with Atlohsa Peace Award
Tracey Adams receives John Porter Tradition of Excellence Book Award
Janice Forsyth
named to the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists

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News

Finishing degree matters in health outcomes

Health of multiracial children is more than just black and white

Wolfgang Lehmann on education and the working class

University students feel they need better basic skills

Policing partnership puts big data on patrol
Jan. 24, 2020
Dr. Laura Huey, PhD students Lorna Ferguson, Hillary Peladeau, Jacek Koziarski and Larissa Kowalski are engaged with police, other academic researchers, and public policy-makers to introduce academic research and big data into policing.
Changing family forms provide focus for 2019 Balakrishan Distinguished Lecture
Oct. 17, 2019
Dr. Wendy Manning to give Balakrishnan Distinguished Lecture in Population Dynamics and Inequality for 2019 on the topic of Young Adult Cohabitation: Redefining Relationships
Social Science staff celebrate their commitment to continued education
Oct. 22, 2019,
Sandra Vilovski will be among five staff members of Faculty of Social Science celebrating their own degree completion at Convocation this fall.
Jerry White to be honoured with Atlohsa Peace Award
Sept. 27, 2019, CTV News
Atlohsa Family Healing Services has announced that at its Atlohsa Peace Awards will honour eight people for their work in Truth and Reconciliation. We are very pleased that Sociology's Professor Emeritus Jerry White is one of these honourees.