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Publications

Books

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  Côté, James E. and Sarah Pickard. 2022. Routledge Handbook of the Sociology of Higher Education, 2nd edition New York, NY: Routledge.

  The handbook explores recent developments in higher-education systems and policy as well as the everyday experiences of students and staff and ongoing problems of inequality and diversity within universities. It addresses current issues including the legitimacy of higher-educational credentials, from the continuing debate regarding traditional pedagogies and the role of universities in social class reproduction to more recent concerns about standards in mass systems.

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  Huey, Laura, Jennifer L. Schulenberg, and Jacek Koziarski. 2022. Policing Mental Health: Public safety and crime prevention in Canada Cham, Switzerland: Springer.

  This brief addresses the question of the various ways in which mental health-related issues have become police responsibility. It provides a detailed understanding of the myriad of ways in which police are often called upon to be the primary responder to mental health-related issues, well beyond the standard media images of individuals in extreme crisis.

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  Engel, Uwe, Anabel Quan-Haase, Sunny Xun Liu, and Lars Lyberg. 2022. Handbook of Computational Social Science, Volume 1: Theory, Case Studies and Ethics
  New York, NY: Routledge.

  This first volume focuses on the scope of computational social science, ethics, and case studies. It covers a range of key issues, including open science, formal modeling, and the social and behavioral sciences. This volume explores major debates, introduces digital trace data, reviews the changing survey landscape, and presents novel examples of computational social science research on sensing social interaction, social robots, bots, sentiment, manipulation, and extremism in social media.

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  Engel, Uwe, Anabel Quan-Haase, Sunny Xun Liu, and Lars Lyberg. 2022. Handbook of Computational Social Science, Volume 2: Data Science, Statistical Modelling, and Machine Learning Methods. New York, NY: Routledge.

  This second volume focuses on foundations and advances in data science, statistical modeling, and machine learning. It covers a range of key issues, including the management of big data in terms of record linkage, streaming, and missing data. Machine learning, agent-based and statistical modeling, as well as data quality in relation to digital trace and textual data, as well as probability, non-probability, and crowdsourced samples represent further foci. The volume not only makes major contributions to the consolidation of this growing research field, but also encourages growth into new directions.

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  Huey, Laura, Renée Mitchell, Hina Kalyal and Roger Pegram. 2021. Implementing Evidence-Based Research: A How-to Guide for Police Organizations. Bristol, UK: Policy Press.

  This practical guide brings leading police and sociology experts together to demonstrate how police forces of all sizes can successfully embed evidence-based methods by using their strengths and limitations to their advantage. Drawing on experiences of policing in North America, it proposes new ways of strategizing and harnessing the talents of ‘change champions’.

Research Articles

Zajacova, Anna, Hanna Grol-Prokopczyk, and Zachary Zimmer. 2021. "Sociology of Chronic Pain." Journal of Health and Social Behavior.

Ferguson, Lorna, Janne E. Gaub, and Laura Huey. 2021. "Exploring the Roles and Function of Police Search and Rescue Teams in Canadian Agencies." Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice paab030.

Malik, Aqdas, M. Laeeq Khan, and Anabel Quan-Haase. 2021. "Public Health Agencies Outreach through Instagram during COVID-19 Pandemic: Crisis and Emergency Risk Communication Perspective." International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2021.102346.

Malleson, Tom and David Calnitsky. 2021. "Which Way Forward for Economic Security: Basic Income or Public Services?." Basic Income Studies DOI: 10.1515/bis-2021-0005.

Hewitt, W. E. (Ted). 2021. "The Factors Affecting Competitiveness in University Ranking Exercises." Journal of International and Comparative Higher Education 13(2): 23-37.

Choi, Kate H., Patrick Denice, Michael Haan, and Anna Zajacova. 2021. "Studying the Social Determinants of COVID-19 in a Data Vacuum." Canadian Review of Sociology 2021; 1–19 DOI: 10.1111/cars.12336.

Lorusso, Jenna R., Chris Markham, and Janice M. Forsyth. 2021. "Indigenous Youth in Ontario School-Based Health and Physical Education Programs: A Scoping Review." PHEnex Journal 11(3).

Choi, Kate H. and Rachel E. Goldberg. 2021. "Multiracial Children's Experiences of Family Instability." Journal of Marriage and Family DOI: 10.1111/jomf.12763.

Koziarski, Jacek and Laura Huey. 2021. "#Defund or #Re-Fund? Re-examining Bayley’s blueprint for police reform." International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice 45(3): 269-284.

Andersen, Robert, Joshua Curtis, and Robert Brym. 2021. "Public support for social security in 66 countries: Prosperity, inequality, and household income as interactive causes." The British Journal of Sociology 00: 1– 31.

Nair, Shiva Madhwan, Tina Luu Ly, Daniel Halstuch, Arnon Lavi, Yujiro Sano, Michael Haan, and Nicholas E. Power. 2021. "Correlation of Occupational Exposure and Risk of Genitourinary Malignancies: A Canadian Population Study." Medical & Surgical Urology 10(2): No. 242, 1-7.

Andersen, Robert, Anders Holm, James E. Côté. 2021. "The student mental health crisis: Assessing psychiatric and developmental explanatory models." Journal of Adolescence 86(2021): 101-114.

Quan-Haase, Anabel, Kaitlynn Mendes, Dennis Ho, Olivia Lake, Charlotte Nau, and Darryl Pieber. 2021. "Mapping #MeToo: A synthesis review of digital feminist research across social media platforms." New Media & Society January 2021. doi:10.1177/1461444820984457.

Gonalons-Pons, Pilar and David Calnitsky. 2021. "Exit, voice and loyalty in the family: findings from a basic income experiment." Socio-Economic Review mwaa050.

Lecoq, Garrett, Dale Ballucci, and Dale Spencer. 2021. "‘Keep Them on the Straight and Narrow’: Understanding, Selecting and Governing Subjects Through Intensive Supervision Units." The British Journal of Sociology 61(2): 538-557.

Denice, Patrick, Michael DeArmond, and Matthew Carr. 2021. "When schools open: Student mobility and racial sorting across new charter schools in Kansas City, Missouri." Journal of Urban Affairs DOI: 10.1080/07352166.2020.1770605.

Haan, Michael, Yoko Yoshida, Jonathan Amoyaw, and Natalie Iciaszczyk. 2021. "Becoming Permanent: The Transition Characteristics of Temporary Foreign Workers to Permanent Residents in Canada." International Migration 59: 8-24.

Denice, Patrick A. 2021. "Choosing and Changing Course: Postsecondary Students and the Process of Selecting a Major Field of Study." Sociological Perspectives 64(1): 82-108.

Journals

Journal for Social Thought