research news 2021

Professor Tina Young Choi’s new book explores Victorian contingencies

Tina Young Choi, associate professor and chair of the Department of English at York University, launched her new book Victorian Contingencies: Experiments in Literature, Science, and Play. Published by Stanford University Press, the book is a cross-disciplinary work that combines literary criticism, history of science, and cultural history. Victorian Contingencies investigates the place of contingency as a conceptual and narrative […]

2020-21 Research in Review | New Online Supports

The LA&PS Research Office is committed to research excellence, community-engaged scholarship, and supporting knowledge mobilization and research impact. In this "Research in Review" series, we’re celebrating significant research achievements for 2020-21, including major awards, external grants and funding for a new generation of emerging researchers. Research in Review COVID-19 Research Inaugural Black Scholars Research Fund […]

2020-21 Research in Review | Research Chairs in LA&PS

The LA&PS Research Office is committed to research excellence, community-engaged scholarship, and supporting knowledge mobilization and research impact. In this "Research in Review" series, we’re celebrating significant research achievements for 2020-21, including major awards, external grants and funding for a new generation of emerging researchers. Research in Review COVID-19 Research Inaugural Black Scholars Research Fund […]

2020-21 Research in Review | Inaugural Black Scholars Research Fund

The LA&PS Research Office is committed to research excellence, community-engaged scholarship, and supporting knowledge mobilization and research impact. In this "Research in Review" series, we’re celebrating significant research achievements for 2020-21, including major awards, external grants and funding for a new generation of emerging researchers. Research in Review COVID-19 Research Research Chairs in LA&PS New […]

2020-21 Research in Review | COVID-19 Research

The LA&PS Research Office is committed to research excellence, community-engaged scholarship, and supporting knowledge mobilization and research impact. In this "Research in Review" series, we’re celebrating significant research achievements for 2020-21, including major awards, external grants and funding for a new generation of emerging researchers. Research in Review Inaugural Black Scholars Research Fund Research Chairs […]

Canada’s stringent screenings for medical transition ignore gender-related perspectives and experiences

Canada’s stringent eligibility screenings for medical transition – to prevent “regret” or detransition – ignore transgender people’s gender-related perspectives and experiences, says LA&PS Professor Kinnon R. MacKinnon, lead author of a new study. It’s impossible for anyone to know with 100 per cent certainty how they will feel after transformative medical interventions such as gender-affirming hormones, […]

2020-21 Research in Review | LA&PS celebrates student research excellence

The LA&PS Research Office is committed to research excellence, community-engaged scholarship, and supporting knowledge mobilization and research impact. In this "Research in Review" series, we’re celebrating significant research achievements for 2020-21, including major awards, external grants and funding for a new generation of emerging researchers. Research in Review COVID-19 Research Inaugural Black Scholars Research Fund […]

Risk management and evacuation planning represent key aspects in volcano crisis

Over the past decade, Ali Asgary, associate professor of disaster and emergency management in York University’s School of Administrative Studies, has been running an annual emergency exercise training and is involved in field research on Vulcano Island in Italy alongside an international team organized and led by the University of Geneva. Most recently, the team […]

Criminology Professor James Sheptycki receives Allen Austin Bartholomew Award

York University Criminology Professor James Sheptycki is the recipient of the 2021 Allen Austin Bartholomew Award for best-published paper of the year by the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology for his essay titled “The Politics of Policing a Pandemic Panic.” The essay was completed in early April 2020 and published during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic […]

Learn why arts venues are critical to innovative society at next Scholars’ Hub

For the Oct. 27 edition of the Scholars’ Hub @ Home speaker series, David Weitzner, an assistant professor of management in York University’s Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, will host a discussion about the importance of arts venues in post-pandemic society. The COVID-19 pandemic has changed everything, and with governments overtaking markets in deciding economic winners and […]