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In the News — May 15, 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.
In the News — April 29, 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.”
In the News — April 4, 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.
RC/W News — April 2, 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.
RC/W News — April 1, 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.
RC/W News — March 22, 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.
In the News — March 8, 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”.
RC/W News — February 7, 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
In the News — February 1, 2024
Is $10 daycare in trouble?
Martha Friendly discusses the growing pains confronting affordable daycare in this CBC Podcast.
In the News — January 29, 2024
Are people taking enough time away from work?
Karen Foster discusses workload, vacation time, and employee performance.