Récit affiché
Watch Andrea Doucet’s Big Ideas Talk, « Nothing Exists Alone »: Three Lessons About Care from Ecologist Rachel Carson, to hear a David and Goliath story with profound lessons for our politically fraught times
Voir par catégorie
Nouvelles RS/T — 26 juin 2025
RS/T Bulletin no 7
Dans les Nouvelles — 25 juin 2025
CCPA on maternity and parental leave
Katherine Scott, David MacDonald, and Ryan Heasman of the CCPA have written an article on enhancing federal maternity and parental leave in a post-pandemic world.
Nouvelles RS/T — 9 juin 2025
Andrea Doucet has received the Distinguished Professor Designation
The lifetime appointment is the highest honorary designation at Brock, recognizing full professors who have demonstrated exceptional research, scholarship or creative activity by the standards of their discipline.
Nouvelles RS/T — 16 mai 2025
Manlin Cai, Donna Lero, and Sylvia Fuller have published a Policy Brief with The Vanier Institute of the Family
This policy brief on Care/Work Policies for Managing Routine and Unpredictable Caregiving, reviews the current regulations for key employment rights in relation to routine caregiving responsibilities under the Canada Labour Code and provincial/territorial employment standards. It also uses data from the 2023 Canadian Survey on Early Learning and Child Care to shed light on parents’ access to provisions that support caregiving.
Nouvelles RS/T — 15 mai 2025
Andrea Doucet receives the 2025 Mirabelli-Glossop Award
The Vanier Institute of the Family has recognized Andrea Doucet with this year’s Mirabelli-Glossop Award for Distinguished Contribution to the national understanding of families and family wellbeing in Canada.
Dans les Nouvelles — 21 avril 2025
Gordon Cleveland on where the parties stand on child care in the federal election
Depending on who becomes prime minister, parents now paying $10 a day for child care could continue to do so and many additional parents could access affordable day care in the future due to plans to expand. Or, the cap on child-care fees could be eliminated in a return to market provision of child-care services, in at least some provinces.
Nouvelles RS/T — 21 avril 2025
RC/W paper among the top 10% most viewed papers published by the Canadian Review of Sociology in 2023
Sadie Goddard-Durant, Andrea Doucet, Helena Tizaa, and Jane-Ann Sieunarine’s paper on racial stress, young black motherhood, and Canadian social policies is among the top 10% most viewed papers published by the Canadian Review of Sociology in 2023.
Dans les Nouvelles — 15 avril 2025
Sophie Mathieu on women and the federal election
Amid talk of trade and tariffs, family and gender equity issues are missing from the federal campaign — and so are women’s voices.
Nouvelles RS/T — 14 avril 2025
8 things to know about $10-a-day child care
Written by Martha Friendly and Gordon Cleveland
Dans les Nouvelles — 9 avril 2025
Kenya Thompson has co-authored a chapter on improving upon Quebec’s childcare policy model in the Canada-wide Early Learning and Child Care Plan
Kenya Thompson, RC/W Research Assistant and Doctoral Student at York University, and co-author Emma Willert, York University, have published a chapter on improving upon Quebec’s childcare policy model in the Canada-wide Early Learning and Child Care Plan, in the book « Assessing Justin Trudeau’s Minority Governments (2019–2025): Navigating Through 697 Promises in Times of Crisis »