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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

May

Yuchen Li, Michael Haan and Teresa Abada published “Homeownership amongst second-generation immigrants in Canada” in Housing Studies. 

David Calnitsky with others published “Who gets the goods? Disentangling the effects of parliamentary representation and collective action on social spending” in European Sociological Review. 

Matthew Stackhouse (PhD Candidate) published “The rural side of the rainbow: Mental health and the intersections of geography, sexuality, and partnership” in the Canadian Review of Sociology. 

 

Kate Choi published “Single mothers in particular would benefit from more subsidized housing in Canada” in The Conversation. 

 

Rachel Margolis and others published “Are Rural Areas Holdouts in the Second Demographic Transition? Evidence From Canada and the United States” in Demography. 

Rachel Margolis and others published “Are Rural Areas Holdouts in the Second Demographic Transition? Evidence From Canada and the United States” in Demography. 

Laura Huey and Phd student Lorna Ferguson published “’No one wants to end up on YouTube’: sousveillance and ‘cop-baiting’ in Canadian policing” in Policing and Society. 

Anna Zajacova with others published “Unraveling the link between chronic pain and sleep quality: Insights from a national study” in Science Direct. 

Laura Huey, Lorna Ferguson and others published “’When you own the time, it’s seamless, but when you don’t, it’s horrific’: critical, public order and major incident decision-making in policing” in Policing and Society: An International Journal of Research and Policy. 

 

Andrea Willson, Kim Shuey and Vesna Pajovic published “Disability and the Widening Gap in Mid-Life Wealth Accumulation: A Longitudinal Examination” in Research in Social Stratification and Mobility. 

 

Kaitlynn Mendes with others published “Moving beyond masculine defensiveness and anxiety in the classroom: exploring gendered responses to sexual and gender based violence workshops in England and Ireland” in Gender and Education. 

Patrick Denice with others published “Power and Pay Transparency” in the Indiana Law Journal. 

Robert Andersen with others published “Public Opinion on Social Spending, 1980-2005" in the book Inequality and the Fading of Redistributive Politics. 

Kate Choi with others published “Interracial Couples and Intergenerational Coresidence: The Role of Race/Ethnicity” in SocArXiv Papers. 

Kate Choi published “Living arrangements and housing affordability issues of young adults in Canada: Differences by nativity status” in the Canadian Review of Sociology. 

Anders Holm with others published “Response to: ‘Signals, Educational Decision-Making, and Inequality’: a comment on the formal model by Holm, Hjorth-Trolle, and Jaeger” in the European Sociological Review. 

Kate Choi and Arabella Soave published “Housing Attainment of Interracial Couples” in SocArXiv Papers. 

David Calnitsky with Asher Dupuy-Spencer published “AI May Very Well Change our Species” in the Jacobin. 

Lindsay Finlay and Michael Haan were interviewed by Western News “Who lives in rural Canada and who’s most likely to move there?”about their work published in Journal of Rural Studies. 

PhD student Lorna Ferguson with Laura Huey and others published “It's frustrating … I didn’t join to sit behind a desk”: Police paperwork as a source of organizational stress” in the International Journal of Police Science and Management. 

Kate Choi published “Family Life in Rural and Urban Areas, More Similar Over Time” in Psychology Today. 

With Alexandra Siberry, Tracey Adams published “Gendered ecologies: Explaining interprofessional and gender inequalities in Ontario midwifery” in the Journals of Professions and Organizations. 

Sean Waite with others published “Studying Individuals in Same-Sex Couples using Longitudinal Administrative Data from Canadian Tax Records: Opportunities and Challenges” in SocArXiv Papers. 

Kaitlynn Mendes with others published “Canadian schools need to address digital sexual violence in their curricula and policies” in The Conversation. 

Postdoc Manfred Asuman was part of a team that published “Safety of Journalists from a Gendered Perspective: Evidence from Female Journalists in Ghana’s Rural and Peri-Urban Media” in Communitas. 

Rachel Margolis, with colleagues, published “Losing a Grandparent Hurts Boys at School” in Scientific American. 

 

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.

 

Journals

Journal for Social Thought