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Attention all graduating Sociology students: Your graduation party has been arranged for June 15 at 8pm at the Bull and Quench (603 McIntyre St. E.). Parking is available on McIntyre and beside the pub. Tickets will be sold starting Wednesday, March 28, in A328 for $10 each. This includes appetizers. Please bring your significant others. Tickets will be sold until the day of convocation. Please email christinad@nipissingu.ca for more details or to secure a ticket with payment.

Click here to view the full conference program.

Congratulations to Dr. James Dzisah, Dr. David Zarifa and Dr. Benjamin Kelly for their success in obtaining one of 14 SSHRC Knowledge Synthesis grants awarded across disciplines that will identify best practices in innovation policy. SSHRC's press release of the larger project is detailed below.

"In collaboration with Industry Canada, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) awarded 14 Knowledge Synthesis Grants to top researchers at universities across Canada. With their focus on public investments in higher education research and development (R&D), the 14 funded projects will help stimulate innovation and economic growth for the benefit of Canada.

Supporting SSHRC’s priority area of Innovation, Leadership and Prosperity, the goal of the grants is to synthesize new and existing academic knowledge and to identify gaps in our current understanding of what stimulates innovation and economic growth. Valued at a total of $327,109, the grants will enable experts to identify international best practices on using public investments to stimulate innovation, and to engage with policy-makers on their research questions and findings. Recognizing the potential of this undertaking to inform future Canadian science and innovation policy, Industry Canada has partnered with SSHRC on this important knowledge synthesis project."

The Department of Sociology at Nipissing University is pleased to announce its new partnership with The Department of Sociology at Laurentian University. As an initial step in this new venture, the following faculty now hold adjunct appointments, giving them the ability to supervise graduate students in Laurentian's M.A. programme.

Dr. Greg Brown

Dr. Ellie Berger

Dr. James Dzisah

Dr. Amir Erfani

Dr. Benjamin Kelly
Dr. Carly Dokis

Dr. Trevor Smith

Dr. David Zarifa

Dr. Paul Millar (Criminal Justice)

The Master of Arts in Sociology - Applied Social Research develops the student’s expertise in four areas: community needs assessment, socio-political impact assessment; local and regional community development studies and social policy analysis. The MA in Applied Social Research emphasizes:

research that focuses on current societal concerns with a view to problem solving
research that has a practical application
research that promotes social equality and human rights

The MA in Applied Social Research can also be taken in French, or students may opt to take a combination of English and French courses.

From the Ivory Tower to the Streets: Students in Christina DeRoche's SOCI 2024 (Minority Groups in Canada) course put their sociological theory into practice by running a food and clothing drive to donate to various organizations that help the homeless in North Bay.

Congratulations to Dr. James Dzisah on the recent release of his book. The Age of Knowledge: The Dynamics of Universities, Knowledge and Society emphasizes that the ongoing transformations of knowledge, both within universities and for society more generally, must be understood as a reflection of the larger changes in the constitutive social structures within which they are invariably produced, translated and reproduced. As the development of knowledge continues to be implicated in the habitual practices of the human social enterprise, visualizing these alterations requires the consideration of the social and materialistic contexts informing these transformations. This is necessary because the process of globalization has not only created new challenges for societies but has also unleashed a new political economy of knowledge within which different institutions must re-affirm their identity and place.

Congratulations to Dr. Amir Erfani for his continued success in obtaining research funding for his ongoing projects on fertility and family planning. Dr. Erfani has recently been awarded an Insight Development Grant (IDG) of $31,180 from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) to examine the determinants, rationales and failure rates of traditional contraceptive methods in Iran (2011-2013). He is also nearing completion of a pevious grant awarded by the Population Studies and Research Center for Asia and Pacific (PSRC) in Tehran, Iran that examines the trends, determinants and policy challenges of fertility, family planning and abortion behaviours of married women in Tehran.

Many thanks to all who attended the recent guest lecture by Dr. Vic Satzewich (Department of Sociology, McMaster University) on November 7, 2011. Dr. Satzewich presented his research on racial profiling and discretionary authority among police and immigration officers.

The Department of Sociology will establish a degree program in Anthropology starting in the fall of 2012 (pending Senate approval).

Students enrolled in the Anthropology program will be exposed to diverse human cultures and experiences and will discover how human beings are engaged in a project of making meaning in the world.

Engagement with other cultures is also a project of self-understanding and students will be encouraged to challenge the "naturalness" of our own cultural constructs.

Students will examine critical questions confronting our species including the unique interactions between local and global forces, particularly in the areas of identity, inequality, health, globalization, and development.

May 2012

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