Jane Finch Social Innovation Hub has gone virtual and is open to supporting students year round

Jane Finch Social Innovation Hub at the RCPS The Hub has gone virtual and is open to supporting students year round. Please reach out to our Hub Coordinator, Khadar Hilowle, if you have any questions or would like to sign up for the workshops. Stay tuned for the following upcoming workshop series coming out of […]

The Jane Finch Community Research Partnership: Learning about research ethics that start with community

Join us via Zoom, October 22, 2020  11:30 – 1:00 pm The Jane Finch Community Research Partnership (JFCRP) was created in  2016 as a result of ongoing engagement between members of the Jane  Finch community and York University faculty and librarians. Our goal is to  address the historical relationships that have existed and continue to […]

RCPS 2020-2021 Workshop Series: Racial equity, Indigenous knowledges, and research ethics

Recent and on-going events challenge taken-for-granted beliefs that we have achieved universal civil rights and racial equity, particularly for Black and Indigenous peoples across Canada. This country's official discourse as a multicultural nation belies the entrenched systemic and institutionalized Eurocentric ideology that persists in education, the justice system, labour markets and the economy, health care, […]

Sociology Solidarity Statement

  As the Department of Sociology, we stand in solidarity with all Black, Indigenous and racialized communities across North America who are protesting in response to police brutality and racial state violence. The brutal killings of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and others have caused tremendous pain, grief and public outrage among many communities […]

Talk by Dr. Sylvia Grills: Does everyone want to be an anti-racism ally?

September 23, 2020  11:30 - 1:30 Talk by Dr. Sylvia Grills: Does everyone want to be an anti-racism ally? Solidarity and public sociology Watch on Youtube YorkU Sociology - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCauiLsziDOLtUTdWPt2qwKA/featured?view_as=subscriber

New! Introducing … the new Resource Centre for Public Sociology (RCPS)

With a new mandate and structure, Sociology’s Resource Centre has a new name, a new vision, and a bit of a facelift. The new RCPS moniker replaces the Qualitative Research Resource Centre (QRRC), which opened in the 1970s. The official launch of this re-branded Resource Centre for Public Sociology, originally scheduled for 23 March 2020, […]

Launch of the Jane Finch Social Innovation Hub on 30 January!

The Jane Finch Hub is housed at the RCPS. For more information please see New Social Innovation Hub gives Jane and Finch students a space to call their own - yFile.