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Mme Stéphanie Bélanger, CD, PhD et Mme Heidi Cramm, PhD, co-directrices scientifiques intérimaires, Institut canadien de recherche sur la santé des militaires et des vétérans, avec la précieuse collaboration de l’équipe de l’ICRSMV. L’Institut...

Gabriel Miller, directeur général, Fédération des sciences humaines Le Congrès 2017 a pris fin le 2 juin, et j’ai encore le sourire aux lèvres quand je pense au succès de l’événement. Comme il s’agissait de mon premier Congrès, j’aimerais revenir sur...

Who’s doing big data? Based on the buzz that the term has been creating since the turn of the century, perhaps a better question is who isn’t doing big data. Certainly the awareness of giant datasets and their potential to be mined for good, or ill...

Zahura Ahmed, Congress 2016 student blogger How do we reconcile the fact that our economy is driven by fossil fuels while facing an urgent need to transition to a low-carbon energy system? This is a contentious issue that is on the minds of many...

If you work in the humanities and social sciences (HSS), there is likely one myth you are tired of hearing: that their graduates will not be able to find good jobs, that they’ll all be working as overeducated baristas. Well, thanks to an enlightening...

Some years ago, two great research traditions arose in social and behavioral science: talking to people and gathering data and numbers about people. A hybrid tradition, which goes by various names but which we’ll call ‘mixed methods,’ arose in the...

As part of the Congress 2016 exciting line-up of events, the University of Calgary will host six Interdisciplinary symposia to exhibit the university’s most compelling and leading-edge thinking and research. This article is part of a six-part series...

More visibly than ever, advocates for the humanities and social sciences (HSS) are making the case that their fields must be considered not just on par with, but actually as partners with, the natural sciences in contributing to societal goods. The...

As part of the Congress 2016 exciting line-up of events, the University of Calgary will host six Interdisciplinary symposia to exhibit the university’s most compelling and leading-edge thinking and research. This article is part of a six-part series...