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‘Mean’ is not a girl thing
Marnina Gonick is project leader on two projects funded through the Canada Foundation for Innovation’s Leaders Opportunity Fund (now named the John R. Evans Leaders Fund). She will be attending the 2015 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences...
Introducing the Trans-Atlantic Platform
In October 2013, a consortium of major funders of social sciences and humanities research joined forces to launch the Trans-Atlantic Platform for the Social Sciences and Humanities (T-AP). The funders came from three continents—North America, South...
Crossing Borders, Crossing Boundaries
As President of Universities Canada, I always look forward to participating in Congress, and I congratulate the organizers on their formidable work in assembling one of the largest multidisciplinary academic conferences in the world. At Congress, I...
Gobbledegook, or how to avoid it by entering the SSHRC Storytellers contest
gobbledegook British Dictionary definition for gobbledegook /ˈɡɒbəldɪˌɡuːk/ noun 1. pretentious or unintelligible jargon, such as that used by officials Has this happened to you? You are out socializing when a friend asks you about your research, and...
The contemporary challenges of francophone communities in Canada
As part of the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, the Academy of Social Sciences of the Royal Society of Canada is hosting a Big Thinking presentation by Joseph Yvon Thériault on the topic of contemporary challenges of francophone...
SSH News: May 7, 2015
Here is our list of the most interesting news articles on the humanities, social sciences and higher education from the past week. Voici notre liste des plus intéressants articles concernant les sciences humaines, sciences sociales et l’enseignement...
The Book: Because Tweets Aren't Always Enough
Despite the technological developments of recent years that have profoundly transformed the way we communicate, the book is still an indispensible tool for researchers in the humanities and social sciences who want to disseminate the results of their...
Celebrating Canada’s open access “tipping point”
As Canadians welcome World Book and Copyright Day on April 23 rd, the three federal research granting institutions – the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and the Natural Sciences...
Celebrating 50 Years: our 50th birthday and our 50th Congress!
The roots of the Canadian Sociological Association are found in the Anthropology and Sociology Chapter of the Canadian Political Science Association, which was established in 1955. By the early 1960s, Chapter members were discussing the possibility...