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How can Academics and NGOs work together? Some smart new ideas
This blog first appeared in oxfamblogs.org and is reposted with the author’s permission. It reviews a new report published by Carnegie Trust in the UK, underscoring how academics and NGOs might better work together to affect policy and practice...
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Research methods: The right tool for each job
Some years ago, two great research traditions arose in social and behavioral science: talking to people and gathering data and numbers about people. A hybrid tradition, which goes by various names but which we’ll call ‘mixed methods,’ arose in the...
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Brand Command: Canadian Politics and Democracy in the Age of Message Control
Before entering academia, I worked in communications consulting and in government. In the private sector, we had lots of time to ruminate about marketing strategy. But in government, the best laid plans were often dispatched in the rush to deal with...
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Food and Power: When the elites tell us what to eat
Food, says Caroline Durand, brings together a number of different aspects of human life, such as health, science, relations between the sexes, social relations and our relationship to nature. Food is therefore an interesting prism through which to...
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Teens and sexy outfits: Taking a second look at the issue ‘hypersexualization’ of fashion
About a decade ago, singer Britney Spears set off a storm of controversy when teenage girls started imitating her ‘sexy’ style of dress. Caroline Caron, a professor in the Department of Social Sciences at the Université du Québec en Outaouais, has...
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When big data meets the soul of culture: innovation for the future
The digital age is rapidly changing how scholars produce, share, analyze and preserve ideas. At Monday’s interdisciplinary symposium at Congress 2015, the changing nature of scholarly research with technology was the topic of discussion. One of the...
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Technological Unemployment and the Future of Work
What world can we imagine in 20, 30, even 50 years in the future? How rapid will technology advance and how do we develop policy to match the speed of development? How many times will my job description change? What do we do when machine intelligence...
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Canada Prizes 2015: Jean-Paul Sartre’s American dream
Jean-Paul Sartre, an influential French writer, philosopher and politically active intellectual in the mid-20th century, was fascinated by the United States. A new book by Yan Hamel, a professor of literature at TÉLUQ, Quebec’s distance-learning...
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Canada Prizes 2015: Treaties with native peoples ‘our Magna Carta,’ says professor
Michael Asch says the real defining moment in Canadian history was not Confederation, but the day the first treaty was signed between European settlers and the country’s Indigenous peoples. And he is inviting Canadians to rethink the way we look at...