Prentice Post (Spring 2012)

Highlights the Prentice Institute's activities, initiatives and research affiliations.Director’s Note Inside this issue: Spring 2012 Volume 2, Issue 1 The Prentice Institute excels at research-ing the changing human population and its potential impacts on social and economic issues, and communicating its findings widely. The Prentice Institute and its research collaborators seek to understand long-term changes in the human and economic environments, within a historical context, with particular attention to the role human actions play in influencing those out-comes. We conduct and integrate research on the dynamics of Canadian and global demog-raphy and their impacts on economic well-being through migration, culture, trade and natural resource availability. We communicate widely the output of our work and that of others to stimulate fur-ther research and to enable individuals, governments, and corporations to make better-informed decisions. We educate students and future researchers. Director’s Note 1 New PI Research Affiliates 1 & 2 Prentice Institute Staff 2 Research Affiliate Feature — Dr. Pamela Winsor 3 Prentice Institute Outreach — Café Conversations 3 Accolades 4 & 5 Prentice Brownbag Seminars — Spring 2012 5 Visiting Scholars—Dr. Constantine Passaris 5 Mission Statement 1 Prentice Post Dr. Pamela Winsor is Professor, Faculty of Education, at the University of Lethbridge. Her research interests include beginning readers and writers, the difficulties they encounter, and the instructional support they need for success. She was invited to join the Research Affiliates at the University of Lethbridge in December 2011. See pg. 3 for our feature on Dr. Winsor. Dr. Haan is Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Population and Social Policy and an Associate Professor in the Departments of Economics and Sociology at the University of New Brunswick and Na-tional Prentice Research Affiliate. He received his PhD from the Univer-sity of Toronto in 2005. Dr. Haan’s research interests include housing, immigration, mobility, migration, and population decline. New Prentice Research Af filiates The Prentice Institute continues to gain momentum and recognition both nationally and internationally. The Director, Susan McDaniel, and both Associate Directors, Alexander Darku and Trevor Harri-son, and our Research Affiliates have been very active in research: publishing books, articles and research reports, obtaining new research grants, as well as doing public outreach in the community, across Canada and in various parts of the world. We have also been active in bringing our new research findings into classrooms, lecture halls and seminar rooms at the University of Lethbridge as well as in guest lectures at other universities. And we have been very successful in developing partnerships with various agencies locally, nationally and internationally. Details on our activities and events can be found on our regularly evolving website: www.uleth.ca/prenticeinstitute. We are also happy to welcome our Ph.D. student, Peter Kellett, and our Masters students, Celeste Barnes and Tanya Byrne. We look forward in Fall 2012 to welcome a new Masters student, Heather McIntosh-Rivera. We are very pleased that the Prentice Institute Distinguished Visitor this fall will be Doug Saunders, author of the award-winning book, Arrival Cities, and international affairs columnist for The Globe and Mail. New Prentice Research Af fi liates (continued) Prentice Post Spring 2012 , Volume 2, Issue 1 Dr. Constantine E. Passaris, is Professor of Economics at the University of New Brunswick, Chair of the New Brunswick Advisory Board on Population and a Member of the Academic Scientific Board for the Inter-national Institute of Advanced Economic and Social Studies( Italy). He is a National Research Affiliate with the Prentice Institute. His research interests include Population economics, immigration, multiculturalism, globalization, economic governance, and public policy. Prent ice Inst i tute Staf f Dr. Tom Noseworthy joins the Prentice Institute as a National Research Affiliate. Noseworthy was recently named Associate Chief Medical Officer, Strategic Clinical Networks and Clinical Care Pathways, Alberta Health Ser-vices. He is also Director, Centre for Health and Policy Studies, Professor (Health Policy and Management) and Head, Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary. In 2007, he was named by the Gover-nor General as a Member of the Order of Canada for his contributions to medicine and health care policy. Dr. Frank Trovato is Professor of Sociology, University of Alberta, Editor-in-Chief of Canadian Studies in Population, the official journal of the Canadian Population Society, and a past Director of the Population Research Laboratory in the Department of Sociology at the University of Alberta, as well as a National Prentice Research Affiliate. His research intersects the disciplines of demography, sociology and social epidemiology; sex and marital status variations in cause-specific mortality and life expectancy; youth suicide and other life-threatening behaviours; the social demography of racial, immigrant and ethnic populations; fertility & nuptiality trends and internal migration in Canada. 2 Dr. Adebiye Germain Boco joined the Prentice Institute in January 2012 as a Research Analyst. He received his Ph.D. from the Université de Montréal in 2011. His Ph.D. was a comparative study of individual and community level effects on child mortality in sub-Saharan African coun-tries. He is working closely with Dr. McDaniel on her CRC research program, doing data analysis, providing analytic methods for research projects, developing interna-tional comparative data analysis, and, in future, possibly offering training opportunities for Prentice researchers in longitudinal and comparative research methods. Dr. Nico Stehr is Karl Mannheim Professor of Cultural Studies at the Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen, Germany and Director of the European Center for Sustainability Research. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and an International Research Affiliate at the Prentice. His research interests center on the transformation of modern societies into knowledge societies and associated developments in environment, science, politics, governance, the economy, inequality and globalization as well as the societal consequences of climate change. He has published more than 40 books and many refereed articles. Dr. Sara Zella has a two-year appointment as a Post- Doctoral Fellow in the Prentice Institute, where she will be working on post-doctoral research, as well as collaboratively with ongoing re-search programs led by Dr. McDaniel at the Prentice. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Trento (Italy) in March 2011. Her thesis was a longitudinal study of the evolution of Italian women's career trajec-tories and the effect of family life events (marriage and children) on their careers. Pamela Winsor is a professor in the Faculty of Education where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in language and literacy development. She is currently on study leave during which she is pursuing her interests in multicultural literature for children and young adults as well as continuing her involvement with international teacher education. As a volunteer consultant and advisor to CODE (formerly Canadian Organization for Development through Education), she is engaged in designing, preparing resource materials for, and delivering teacher education programs focused on early literacy teaching in multilingual classrooms. This month, in Ghana, she will work with teacher leaders to help them prepare for data collection to ascertain indications of children’s reading skills prior to implementation of the next phase of Reading Ghana. Her earlier re-search and inquiries have focused on the place of phonemic awareness in beginning readers’ success and on the potential of Language Experience Approach as pedagogy for English Language Learners, all of which informs her current work. Her work has been supported by the Faculty of Education, the University of Lethbridge Research Development Fund, the Alberta Advisory Council for Educational Studies (AACES), and the International Reading Association. In the coming academic year, she will work collaboratively with curriculum librarian, Elizabeth Cormier, to develop a teacher resource entitled, Exploring the World: Seven Continents in One Global Micro-Library. The micro-library will facilitate children experiencing the world—its cultures and children--through fine quality literature. 3 Spring 2012 , Volume 2, Issue 1 Prentice Post Research Af filiate Feature— Dr. Pamela Winsor I Prentice Insti tute Outreach —Café Conversations On Tuesday, April 24, 2012 the Prentice Institute presented its first Café Conversations at the Mocha Cabana Restau-rant in Lethbridge. More community events are being planned. Three Prentice Research Affiliates, Dr. Raphael Lencucha, Dr. Jean Harrowing and Sharon Yanicki, all from the Faculty of Health Sciences, formed the panel. Their topic was “Global Health and the Quest for Justice”, and dealt with the challenge to current ideas of growing social and health inequities. The moderator for the evening was Dr. Susan McDaniel, Prentice Institute Director. About 40 people attended the presentation at the Mocha Cabana. We received a lot of positive feedback. If you would like to: - subscribe to the Prentice Post - unsubscribe and/or provide your feedback — please email sheila.matson@uleth.ca Mocha Cabana Interior Sharon Yanicki, Jean Harrowing, and Raphael Lencucha (Presenters) Susan McDaniel (Moderator) Congratulations to Dr. Abdie Kazemipur, Professor of Sociology, at the University of Lethbridge, who will hold the Jarislowsky Chair in Culture Change in Rapidly Developing Modern Societies, at Memorial University, from July 2012. Dr. Kazemipur will remain a Prentice Research Affiliate, and work to link the Prentice with the sister institute he will be developing at Memorial University. Congratulations to Dr. Seong-gee Um, who successfully completed all requirements for her Ph.D at the University of Toronto. Dr. Um is a postdoctoral fellow at the Prentice Institute. Her research focusses on social & demographic changes in East Asian countries; care policy & practice for the elderly, migration of women and low skilled labour; inequality, exclusion and marginalization; and qualitative research meth-ods. Congratulations to Dr. Wei Xu, Associate Professor, Geography and Prentice Research Affiliate, and Dr. Karl Staenz, Professor of Geography, who successfully secured $490,000 from TECTERRA Applied Research Funding Program for a project titled "Food Security Assessment System". With additional contributions from partners, which include China's National Engineering Research Center for Information Technology in Agriculture and Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development, this project received total funding of $885,000 for two years. Canada Research Chair 2011– 2018 Susan McDaniel (Sociology/Prentice Institute for Global Population and Economy), Canada Research Chair in Global Population & Life Course, Tier 1 Canada- US Fulbright Program 2010 Trevor Harrison (Sociology/Prentice Institute) Canadian Committee on Women's History: Hilda Neatby Prize 2011 Heidi MacDonald (History) Canadian Institute of Health Research 2010 Jean Harrowing (Health Sciences) (with D. Gregory) - meetings, planning and dissemination grant SSHRC Aid to Canadian Research Workshops & Conferences Grant 2011 Heidi MacDonald (History) (co-applicant) 2011 Janice Newberry (Anthropology) Accolades Prentice Post Spring 2012 , Volume 2, Issue 1 SSHRC Partnership Development Grant 2010 Richard Mueller (Economics) (co-applicant) SSHRC Partnership Grants Collaborators 2012 Glenda Bonifacio (Women & Gender Studies) 2012 Richard Mueller (Economics) SSRHC Partnership Grant (LO1) 2011 & 2012 Henning Bjornlund (Economics) (co-applicant) 2012 Ivan Townshend (Geography) (co-applicant) 2012 Wei Xu (Geography) (co-applicant) SSHRC Public Outreach Dissemination Grant 2011 James Byrne (Geography) 2011 James Graham (New Media) (co-applicant) 2011 Susan McDaniel (Sociology/Prentice Institute) (co-applicant) SSHRC Standard Research Grant 2012 Abdie Kazemipur (Sociology) 2010 Abdie Kazemipur (Sociology) 2010 Susan McDaniel (Sociology/Prentice Institute) University of South Australia, School of Commerce Grant 2011 Henning Bjornlund (Economics) RESEARCH GRANTS: INTERNAL 2010-2011 (PI Research Affiliates) Centre for the Advancement of Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CAETL) Teaching Development Fund Awards 2011 Peter Kellett (Ph.D. candidate) Prentice Institute for Global Population and Economy Seed Grants 2011 Glenda Bonifacio (Women and Gender Studies) 2011 Bonnie Lee (Health Sciences) U. of L. Community of Research Excellence Development Opportunities (CREDO) Grant 2010 Janice Newberry (Anthropology) 2010 Wei Xu (Geography) University of Lethbridge Internal SSHRC Grant 2011 Raphael Lencucha (Health Sciences) University of Lethbridge Research Fund (ULRF) Grant 2010 Trevor Harrison (Sociology) 2010 Peter McCormick (Political Science) 2010 Susan McDaniel (Sociology/Prentice Institute) 2010 Wei Xu (Geography) 4 Prentice Brownbag Seminars —Spring 2012 Spring 2012 , Volume 2, Issue 1 Prentice Post Accolades—continued The Prentice Institute held 5 Brownbag presentations in Spring 2012, beginning January 2012, with “Perfect Storms: Science, Politics and Food Security.” Dr. William Ramp*, Sociology, and Dr. Jim Byrne*, Geography, who were joined by Dr. Andrea Cuellar, Anthropology, and Dr. James Thomas, Biological Sciences. Dr. Trevor Harrison*, Professor, Sociology (Associate Director, Prentice Institute) moderated the session. All presentations can be viewed on the Prentice Institute website: http:// www.uleth.ca/prenticeinstitute/events. Brownbag #2 was held Thursday, February 16, 2012 with Dr. Glenda Bonifacio*, Women & Gender Studies. Dr. Bonifacio’s topic was “Feminism and the Global Economy: Nodal Points for Convergence & Disjuncture”. This session was moderated by Dr. Heidi MacDonald*, History. Brownbag #3, “Freedom 55? Promise and Hype of Aging” was held Friday, March 23, 2012 with a panel of three, Dr. Ivan Townshend*, and Dr. Susan McDaniel*, Sociology & Director, Prentice Institute, and one faculty member, Dr. Jennifer Copeland, Kinesiology. The panel was moderated by Dr. John Usher*, Management. Brownbag #4, “Why Do So Many Immigrants and Their Children Attend University? Some More Evidence for Canada”, was presented by Dr. Richard Mueller*, Economics. Dr. Ivan Townshend*, Geography was the moderator. Brownbag #5, “The Crescent and the Maple Leaf: Muslims in Canada” was held Friday, April 13, 2012 featured Dr. Abdie Kazemipur*, Sociology, and was moderated by Dr. Wei Xu*, Geography. These presentations were well attended, and are planned for each semester, with different topics of global concern. * Prentice Research Affiliate Dr. Constantine Passaris, one of our National Research Affiliates (see page 2), spent a week at the Prentice Institute in November 2011. On November 2, he presented a Prentice Brownbag Session entitled “Canadian Multiculturalism and the New Economy of the 21st Century”. Dr. Passaris was a guest lecturer in Economics, to Dr. Alexander Darku’s class, (Associate Director of the PI). He met with interested faculty and students on campus, and attended a reception held to introduce him to the Prentice Staff and Research Affiliates. This experience was very successful, and there was an excellent response to Dr. Passaris, and for his research. 2012 Interdisciplinary Research Development Fund Recipients have been announced (April 2012) The following proposals were received, and the underlined names are Prentice Research Affiliates: Leanne Elias (PI, New Media), Janice Rahn (Education), John Usher (Management), Michael Campbell (Art) & Cheryl Meheden (Management) - The e-Book of New Media Methods and Practice. Carol Williams (PI, Women & Gender Studies), Glenda Bonifacio, (Women & Gender Studies), Patrick Wilson (Anthropology), Bonnie Lee (Health Sciences), Linda Many Guns (Native American Studies) - Creative Appropriations: Identities, Communities, and Development in Cross Cultural and Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Dr. Germain Boco, Prentice Institute Research Analyst, has been named recipient of the best Ph.D thesis in demography 2011- 12, at the Université de Montréal. This award aims to encourage and reward the postgraduate researcher's exceptional achievement in the PhD thesis. The ceremony for the award will be held during the Dean's Award Celebration "Célébrer les arts et les sciences" on Tuesday, October 16th, 2012 at Montreal. As well, Dr. Boco was on the 2011-12 Dean's Honour List. A minimum CGPA of 4.0 must be attained, as well as the thesis being rated "Excellent", and the student in the top of 10% of the faculty’s graduating class. Visiting Scholars To be added or removed f rom the PI News let ter l is t ing, emai l shei la.matson@uleth.ca