Resource hub

Guest blog by Mitacs International collaborations are proving increasingly valuable to research, and universities across Canada are looking to establish worldwide linkages through the two-way mobility of talented students. Mitacs has promoted student...

The 2013 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences was a huge success in terms of online engagement between attendees, the Federation, and our hosts at the University of Victoria. One of our key social media platforms was Twitter, and the...

Copyright law is a contentious issue for Canadian academics in their roles as teachers, researchers and creators. This will be explored at Congress 2014 in a series of three debates involving some of Canada’s leading copyright experts and...

Dolana Mogadime, Brock University, Member of the Federation’s Equity and Diversity Steering Committee One cannot help but notice when walking through the corridor of a university setting that the student body attending Canadian institutions is...

Last week, the Hill Times published its list of Top 100 Best Political, Government, Public Policy and Canadian History Books in 2012. Of the 100 books on the list, 23 are ASPP-funded books, including two which were selected in the Editors’ 25 Picks...

Milena Stanoeva Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences Over the past several weeks, the Parti Quebecois held its pre-Summit on Higher Education panels to discuss funding for the province’s universities. Upon taking office in September, the...

James Deaville, Carleton University, Member of the Federation’s Equity and Diversity Steering Committee According to the revised version of the Ontarians with Disabilities Act from 2005 (originally drafted in 2001), “disability” means, (a) any degree...

Ashok Mathur, Thompson Rivers University, Member of the Federation’s Equity and Diversity Steering Committee As the momentum grows around the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Indian Residential Schools, with upcoming national events in 2013 in...

Milena Stanoeva Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences Several of our Big Thinking speakers from the past two years have been making waves in different publications this week. On Thursday, Dilip Soman (pictured) spoke about financial...