Led by York University’s Stephen Gaetz, a professor in the Faculty of Education, COH is based out of York and is the largest homelessness-dedicated research institute in Canada, and one of the largest in the world. COH estimates around 235,000 Canadians experience homelessness each year, and roughly 35,000 people experience homelessness on any given night. […]
The study, titled “Law, Sanitation, and Sustainability: A Comparative Analysis Between Municipalities in the State of Santa Catarina, Brazil, and the Province of Ontario, Canada in Light of Sustainable Development Goals 6 and 11,” reveals a stark contrast in sanitation access and quality between the two regions, despite over 99 per cent of the population […]
In Fall 2021 the government of Nunavut set out to empower its workforce by partnering with York University’s Schulich Executive Education (Schulich ExecEd) to offer specialized professional development through the Masters Certificate in Project Management program. To help meet the territory’s demand for skilled project managers within the public sector, the Schulich ExecEd program – which recently […]
York University has long been a leader in health education and research, and recent announcements by the Government of Ontario have enabled the University to further this vision, with a new School of Medicine. In April 2024, at the Cortellucci Vaughan Hospital, Premier Doug Ford announced that York University’s new School of Medicine will open […]
An intricate beadwork of vibrant blues, brown and green depicts an Arctic shoreline, stretching from the sky down to icy hills and out to the sea, wrapped within a round border of caribou hair. The artwork is personal to award-winning Inuk artist and York University adjunct professor Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory, who crafted the scene to resemble […]
In the fall of 2024, York University will embark on an exciting new chapter with the grand opening of Markham Campus. Located in York Region, one of the fastest growing areas in Ontario and a hub for technology and life sciences companies, Markham Campus will embed the University in the heart of one of the […]
Launched in late 2023 at York’s Glendon Campus, the Observatory of Populism in Canada is a first-of-its-kind research endeavour that will work to generate, support and highlight empirical and theoretical research on populism’s role in Canadian society. The Observatory is led by Emily Laxer, an associate professor of sociology at Glendon and York Research Chair in Populism, Rights and […]
Picture this: a 911 operator in your city receives a call from a person in mental distress and needs to send help. They could dispatch the police or an integrated unit of both police and mental health professionals. But instead, the operator sends a robot. This scenario may sound like science fiction, but it’s the […]
“Voice-activated personal assistants (VAPAs) use women’s voices as a default setting, and this gendered technology significantly influences the treatment of women tech experts by male audiences online,” says Stephen J. Neville, who conducted the work alongside Alex Borkowski, both of whom are in the Joint Graduate Program in Communication & Culture at York and Toronto Metropolitan University. […]
“I joke that my PhD defence will include a graph that shows the number of cuts and bruises I’ve had to endure for my research,” says the budding entomologist, who is in the fourth year of her PhD in the Department of Biology. Jokes aside, Elsayed’s research into the effects of climate change on […]