If you are a regular online shopper, you probably scoured Cyber Monday deals with eagle eyes. But did you also carefully go through the privacy policies you were consenting to before clicking “I Agree” on those business-to-consumer websites and apps? People tend to ignore the fine print in online Terms of Service (ToS) contracts, according […]
Distinguished research professor of sociology, Professor Emerita Pat Armstrong, has received the Research Canada Leadership in Advocacy Award for her outstanding commitment to patient advocacy and the advancement of health care research. “This year’s awardee has gone above and beyond what is expected of health research advocates,” said Deborah Gordon-El-Bihbety, president and CEO of Research […]
Researchers at the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) have been awarded $586,394 in funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). SSHRC Insight Development Grants (IDGs) support early-stage research. The grants enable the development of new research questions, as well as experimentation with new methods, theoretical approaches and/or […]
Elephants, horses, dolphins and bears have stories to tell about the past. Their lives and actions shape history and influence the lives of people in innumerable ways. How can these histories that animals make be studied and understood? Professors Jennifer Bonnell and Sean Kheraj from York’s Department of History in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies recently […]
York University Professor Nergis Canefe has been selected for a second consecutive year for a fellowship at the Institute of Human Sciences (IWM) in Vienna, Austria – a prestigious institution of advanced study focusing on intellectual exchange across disciplines, between academia and society, and among regions that now embrace the global south and north. Canefe is a […]
A sample of documents that represent “Black and Women’s Voices” is now available in digitized format from the Resource Centre collections of York’s Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLAC). A sampling of “Indigenous Voices” will follow soon (https://vitacollections.ca/cerlacresourcecentre/search). The digitized materials form part of an equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) project supported by […]
Four new Provostial Fellows have taken up their roles this year, among them two are from Faculty of LA&PS. The program is now in its second year running, with current fellowships in place until spring 2023. As an initiative led by the provost, each of the Fellows will build capacity across the institution to advance the University Academic […]
A paper by a research group including York University Associate Professor Zachary Spicer that examines the impact of exogenous shocks on online voting has earned the award for Best Paper at the International E-Vote Conference in Austria. The research group that also includes faculty from the MGGill University, Toronto Metropolitan University, Brock University and Dalhousie University, focused its work on the […]
The Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) recognizes the importance of postdoctoral training as a critical stage of academics’ professional training. In 2020 we created the LA&PS Postdoctoral Fellowships Program to respond to this need. The Program is now in its third year, and we will launch this year’s call shortly. “Many of […]
A new issue of the journal Informal Logic explores the work of York University Professor Emeritus Michael Gilbert. The issue Vol. 42 No. 3 (2022) is titled “Special Issue: Michael Gilbert’s Multi-Modal Argumentation” and was published Sept. 7. Seven scholars have contributed essays describing, critiquing and exploring different aspects of Gilbert’s work in philosophy. Gilbert began studying philosophy […]