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Good Science Policy Will Require Good Communication and Better Support: A Night Out With CAUT
In what turns out to have been the run up to the unveiling of the federal government’s new Science, Technology, and Innovation Strategy (ST&I), the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) launched its “ Get Science Right ” campaign. The...
Open Access and the Humanities, by Martin Paul Eve
When it comes to open access, it can sometimes feel like the humanities and social sciences are merely catching up to the progress made in science, technology and engineering disciplines. One of our goals at the Federation is to encourage the...
An Easy, Inexpensive Solution for Simultaneous Translation
This article originally appeared in Convene , magazine of the Professional Convention Management Association. As associations continue to grow their international membership, simultaneous translation at events is moving from a nice-to-have to a must...
Humanities and social science research is crucial to our understanding of the changing workplace
In her recent op-ed for The Globe and Mail , Federation President and McGill Professor Antonia Maioni rightly asks why women, who have outnumbered men at universities for years, remain underrepresented in leadership positions in the workplace. Behind...
‘Measuring’ the impact of Social Sciences and Humanities
Ideas can… is the website of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, a non-profit charitable organization with a mandate to (from the website): promote the value of research and learning in the humanities and social sciences...
New Working Paper: Finding New Ways to Maximize HSS Research Impact
The Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences has been hard at work on an ambitious research impact project. Our new working paper, entitled “ The Impacts of Humanities and Social Science Research ,” launches today at Concordia University in...
Kudos to Congress for childcare
This blog post was originally published in the September 2014 Bulletin of the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) . Kudos to congress childcare organizers for getting it right this year. As Guttman and Burnett ( Bulletin, May 2013 )...
A Vision for the SFU Centre for Dialogue
This is a transcript of the speech presented on September 16 by Shauna Sylvester , newly appointed Director of the Centre for Dialogue at Simon Fraser University, and Executive Director of SFU Public Square . In this speech, Sylvester lays out her...
Beyond science, can one size of OA fit all?
This post originally appeared on ScienceOpen.com on September 15, 2014. The ScienceOpen team are pleased to announce some changes to facilitate the spread of Open Access publishing beyond the sciences, its traditional strong-hold. To encourage those...