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Martha Friendly Awarded the Order of Canada as an Officer for propelling the importance of child care not only for the benefits it accrues to children, but also for its necessity for Canadian families, and particularly for women’s equality
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Dans les Nouvelles — 21 mai 2024
Armine Yalnizyan receives the prestigious biennial Galbraith Prize in Economics from the Progressive Economics Forum
The prize recognizes her lifetime efforts to build a better economy. She accepted the prize and delivered a lecture at the Canadian Economics Association on May 21 at Toronto Metropolitan University
Dans les Nouvelles — 15 mai 2024
Sylvia Fuller on daylong childcare in BC
Sylvia Fuller talks to BC Today about daylong childcare in BC and the importance of after-school care to women in the workforce.
Dans les Nouvelles — 3 mai 2024
Families Count 2024
The Vanier Institute’s new resource explores three decades of change, continuity, and complexity among families in Canada. Released during the International Year of the Family’s 30th anniversary, Families Count 2024 provides statistical portraits of families in Canada, highlights trends over time, and offers insights on what it all means for families and family life.
Dans les Nouvelles — 29 avril 2024
Susan Prentice on work-life balance and fertility rates
“Women increasingly are choosing to have fewer children. Canada is not the only country — this is a pattern that we see all around the world as women’s education rates rise, employment rates rise and live births fall,” she says.
“In general, we know from decades of social science research that it’s women who change their life patterns much more than men to accommodate work and family strains.”
Dans les Nouvelles — 4 avril 2024
Karen Foster awarded SSHRC Sustainable Agriculture Grant
Karen Foster has been selected to lead a $1.9-million initiative supported by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council to develop a new national research network that supports an equitable transition to net-zero in Canadian agriculture and its periphery industries.
Nouvelles RS/T — 2 avril 2024
Allyship in Community Research Podcast Part 2
In the spirit of Black History and African Heritage Month at Brock, Masters student Isabelle Hill and recent graduate Christabel Oghinan take the mic to explore what Black allyship looks like in research. They spoke with Dr. Andrea Doucet, Professor in Brock’s Department of Sociology and Canadian Research Chair in Gender, Work and Care, and recent PhD grad Dr. Sadie Goddard-Durant, Director of the Office of Equity Diversity & Inclusion at Durham College about how they negotiated the supervisor-student relationship and what allyship means to them.
Nouvelles RS/T — 1 avril 2024
Allyship in Community Research Podcast Part 1
In the spirit of Black History and African Heritage Month at Brock, Masters student Isabelle Hill and recent graduate Christabel Oghinan take the mic to explore what Black allyship looks like in research. They spoke with Dr. Andrea Doucet, Professor in Brock’s Department of Sociology and Canadian Research Chair in Gender, Work and Care, and recent PhD grad Dr. Sadie Goddard-Durant, Director of the Office of Equity Diversity & Inclusion at Durham College about how they negotiated the supervisor-student relationship and what allyship means to them.
Nouvelles RS/T — 22 mars 2024
Laura Fisher publishes first-author paper!
Laura Fisher, RC/W Research Assistant and Doctoral Student at Dalhousie University, has published her first first-author paper in the Journal of Rural and Community Development.
Dans les Nouvelles — 8 mars 2024
Kim de Laat on the « dual devotion » approach to work life balance
Kim de Laat discusses the rise in remote and hybrid work which is enabling workers to devote equal amounts of time and energy to their jobs and families and the associated consequences of this « dual devotion ».
Nouvelles RS/T — 7 février 2024
Andrea Doucet discusses 3 lessons from MP Karina Gould’s parental leave that could help all Canadian families
Andrea Doucet discusses 3 lessons from MP Karina Gould’s parental leave that could help all Canadian families