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The social implications of emerging technologies: Are the most important questions the least studied?
Saskatchewan addresses absenteeism by linking health and productivity
The University of Saskatchewan’s College of Nursing supports province’s mining industry Robin Thurmeier, Dr. Mary Ellen Andrews, Janet Luimes, Dr. Heather Exner-Pirot, Dr. Lorna Butler and Emmy Neuls . The mining sector plays a critical role in the...
Mexican student brings new perspectives to Indigenous treaties in Saskatchewan
Wendy Ortega Pineda is determined to do her part to make the world a more equitable place. As a law student at Universidad Autónoma de Baja California in Mexico, Wendy learned much about the profound differences between nations regarding access to...
Smart Ideas: Q&A Marie-Odile Junker, an Alsatian who loves Algonquian languages
This series, which is sponsored by the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, features notable researchers in humanities and social sciences with smart ideas for a better tomorrow. This month, we are speaking with Marie-Odile Junker, a...
The Federation and DHSI partner on digital skills training
The Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) is an annual training opportunity hosted at the University of Victoria in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. DHSI is the largest regular digital humanities skills training institute in the world, and...
Smart Ideas: Q&A Yoko Yoshida looks at the faces behind immigrant numbers
This series sponsored by the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences features notable humanities and social sciences researchers with smart ideas for a better tomorrow. This month, we spoke with Yoko Yoshida, associate professor in...
The federal science review is an opportunity to strengthen Canadian research
This summer, the Canadian research community was tasked to address some of the sector’s most pressing challenges through the federal Fundamental Science Review, conducted by an independent panel struck by Minister of Science Kirsty Duncan. The...
Innovation’s crucial human dimensions: Find out more at the People, Place and Possibility Conference organized by the Federation and University of Toronto
This summer Canadians across the country have been hard at work trying to figure out innovation. What is it? Why don’t we have enough of it? How do we get more of it? And how do we ensure that it helps support an inclusive society? The conversation...
How can Academics and NGOs work together? Some smart new ideas
This blog first appeared in oxfamblogs.org and is reposted with the author’s permission. It reviews a new report published by Carnegie Trust in the UK, underscoring how academics and NGOs might better work together to affect policy and practice...