The Sociology Graduate Students; Caucus (SGSC) annual Graduate Student Research Symposium is a student-led event that enables graduate and undergraduate honours students to present their proposed, in progress, or completed research in a supportive forum.
Congratulations to Law and Society and History student Claire Gjertsen, who has won a Program for Undergraduate Research Experience (PURE) award for summer 2015.
Associate Professor of Sociology Dr. Ariel Ducey and an interdisciplinary team of researchers have been awarded a two-year Canadian Institute for Health Research grant to examine how devices and procedures are adopted for pelvic floor surgery, and to use their findings to develop a health care ethic that attends to how values impact everyday decisions and practices in medicine.
First year PhD student Kristen Chaisson expands interests to include how international organizations such as the United Nations influence Canadian health care policy, with a focus on obesity as a case study.
Second year MA student Lucy Wang is conducting an exploratory case study on how Canadian police are collaborating with community services in response to domestic violence.
Researcher Pernille Goodbrand invites renters of 'illegal suites' to share their experiences for a study entitled The Missing Perspective: The Experience of Renters Living in Informal Secondary Suites in Calgary.
Congratulations to Dr. Jenny Godley on two great achievements: 1) The University of Calgary's 2014 GREAT Supervisor Award (http://grad.ucalgary.ca/faculty-supervision/greatsupervisor-awards), and 2) the Society of Research Administrators International Rod Rose Award for the best article of 2013 in the Society's flagship journal, the Journal of Research Administration.
The French-Canadian association of Alberta offered its 2014 Award of excellence on immigration to Dr. Amal Madibbo in recognition of her significant contributions to the understanding of diversity and the impacts of immigration on the Francophone communities of Alberta.
The book, Restorying Indigenous Leadership: Wise Practices in Community Development, is a foundational resource of the most recent scholarship on Indigenous leadership.
Dr. Dean Curran has an MSc in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences from the London School of Economics and completed his PhD in Sociology at Queen’s University, Canada in 2013.
Congratulations to Dr. Annette Tezli and Dr. Jyoti Gondek — two newly minted Sociology Doctoral Graduates who "walked the stage" with their PhDs this June, 2014.
Dr. Jim Frideres, Emeritus Professor of Sociology: Research in the Field - Afghanistan Teacher Certification and Accreditation Project [TCAP-Afghanistan]
Sociology students recognized for their exceptional performance. The awards were given on the basis of nominations received from Sociology faculty and adjudicated by the Sociology Student Awards Committee.
