News in Research

2021

• Expert panel discusses gender and sexual diversity

  In mid-May, the Office of the Vice-President, Research invited an interdisciplinary panel to identify the challenges that members of LGBTQI2S+ communities face in research.

• More Inclusion, Better Research: Inspiring Stories Competition

  Does your research team or project offer an inclusive and/or stimulating environment? Submit your story before June 21, for a chance to be featured in a short video! 

• Playing politics with social media

  Elizabeth Dubois probes the changing face of public discourse in an era where tweets can alter lives.

• Crime and cryptocurrency

  Posted on Tuesday, April 13, 2021

  Computer science professor Guy-Vincent Jourdan and doctoral candidate Emad Badawi team up with an international think tank to uncover cyber scams before they claim victims.

• Urban shift

  What does it take to build greener cities? Daina Mazutis shows how progressive business leadership can go a long way. 

• Human dignity across the lifespan

  Driven by a keen sense of justice, Michelle Giroux contributes to legal reforms by addressing new realities facing families and the health sector.

• In all fairness

  Whether he is considering linguistic rights or wealth distribution, philosopher David Robichaud is always concerned with the concepts of equity and justice.

• Inspiring EDI stories: A female math researcher and one-time refugee’s path

  If being a woman in science is a challenge, being an international student and one-time war refugee on top of that requires exceptional determination and support. This has been the case for Afghan PhD student Masoomeh Akbari.

• Partnering with the marginalized

  Smita Pakhalé enlists members of marginalized communities to work alongside academics in a novel approach to health-care research.

• The smaller the better

  Stephen Newman and his team are helping industry produce chemicals more safely and sustainably.