TORONTO, January 22, 1996: Patricia Stamp, a professor of social science at York University, will be honoured by the International Development Research Centre for her work in gender and development research in the Third World.

The International Development Research Centre (IDRC) is celebrating its 25 anniversary this year and is recognizing the work of scientists and researchers from developing countries through events at Canadian embassies abroad. The IDRC is a crown corporation created in 1970 by the Parliament of Canada to assist developing countries in finding their own solutions to development problems through research.

Patricia Stamp will be honoured at a reception on Thursday, Jan. 25 at 4:30 p.m. at the York University bookstore in the York Lanes mall. The Honourable Art Eggleton, MP (York Centre), who represents York University's riding, will present a certificate on behalf of the Government of Canada and IDRC from Prime Minister Jean Chrétien. A reception will follow.

Stamp is one of five Canadians to receive certificates in recognition of her efforts to foster increased understanding between the West and developing countries. She will also receive two books published by the IDRC celebrating the achievements of researchers from the Third World. Her work is highlighted in a chapter of one of those books.

Stamp is a professor and author whose work has helped to improve our understanding of Africa, and particularly African women. She continues to promote greater collaboration between researchers in the West and the Third World.

She has travelled through Africa and Asia as part of her research into the area of gender and development. In 1991, she founded York's Development Studies Resource Centre. She is also a founding member of the Women's Studies program and African Studies program at York University, which were both established in the early 1970s. Currently a social science professor at York, she is also affiliated with three graduate studies programs: social and political thought, political science, and women's studies.

York University, the third largest university in Canada, is nationally and internationally respected for its innovative research and teaching. With its combination of dedicated and talented faculty, bright and ambitious students, dynamic curriculum and modern campus in the heart of one of North America's most influential centres, York University is setting the modern standard in academic excellence.

York University is located at 4700 Keele Street (Keele St. and Steeles Ave.) in North York.

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For more information, call:

Mary Ann Horgan
Department of Communications
York University
(416) 736-2100 ext. 22084

Julie Hauser
International Development
Research Centre
613) 236-6163 ext. 2598
YU/005/96