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LA&PS Research Centres

The York Centre for Public Policy and Public Law (YCPPL)

Created in 2008, the York Centre for Public Policy and Public Law encourages research on the role and impact of law in the formation and expression of public policy. More specifically, the Centre focuses on constitutional, institutional and legal aspects of the public policy, as well as the international and transnational dimensions of law and public policy. While CPPPL is housed between LA&PS and Osgoode Hall Law School, affiliated faculty are based in departments as diverse as political science, sociology, economics, and psychology as well as interdisciplinary programs such as Labour Studies, Law & Society, and Communication Studies.

Director: Lisa Philipps
Address: 6th Floor, York Research Tower
Telephone: 416-736-2100 x.30201
Fax: 416-650-4321
Email: lphilipps@yorku.ca
Web site: http://ycppl.osgoode.yorku.ca/home.html


The Centre for Research on Work and Society (CRWS)

The Centre for Research on Work and Society (CRWS) is a university-union-community research centre that deals with issues such as labour market regulation and the breakdown of secure employment, industrial relations and the labour process, women and economic restructuring, trade union response in international comparison, and the delivery of training.

Interim Director: Mark Thomas
Address: 6th Floor, York Research Tower
Telephone: 416-736-5612
Fax: 416-736-5916
Email: crws@yorku.ca
Web site: www.yorku.ca/crws


Institute for Science and Technology Studies (iSTS)

The aim of the Tri-Faculty Institute is to be a focal point for the foremost research in Science and Technology Studies (STS) both at York and internationally. The membership of the Institute is drawn from across the university, but the majority of those affiliated originate from its three founding Faculties: the Faculties of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies, Science and Engineering, and Health.

The mandate of the Institute at York will centre on applying the leading methods and theories of the social sciences and humanities to the study of techno-scientific knowledge and practice, both past and present.

Director: Bernard Lightman
Address: Room 309, Norman Bethune College
Telephone: 416-736-2100 ext. 22028
Email: lightrman@yorku.ca
Website: http://ists.news.yorku.ca


LA&PS researchers are associated with a wide variety of Research Centres and Institutes at York such as:

  • Canadian Centre for German and European Studies
  • York Institute for Research and Innovation in Sustainability (IRIS)
  • Institute for Research on Learning Technologies
  • Institute for Social Research
  • Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies
  • York Centre for Asian Research
  • York Centre for International and Security Studies
  • York Institute for Health Research (YIHR)
  • Centre for Feminist Studies
  • City Institute
  • Tubman Institute
  • York University Centre for Practical Ethics
  • Centre for Refugee Studies
  • Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLAC)
  • Centre for Jewish Studies
  • LaMarsh Centre for Research on Violence and Conflict Resolution
  • Centre for Research on Language Contact
  • Jack & Mae Nathanson Centre for the Study of Transnational Human Rights
  • CERIS - The Ontario Metropolis Project (centre of excellence)
  • Centre for Research on Work and Society
  • York Centre for Public Policy and Law
  • Institute for Science & Technology Studies (iSTS)

Get a complete list of all York's Research Centres and Institutes.