Pôle ressources

Since the 1990s, policy makers progressively became interested in assessing scientific research not only on its merits for the scientific community, but also for society at large. However, we still do not have a widely accepted, systematic way to...

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...

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...

Law and Social Work faculties aim to develop policies and action plans that will make real improvements in access to social justice. Top speakers include Thomas Cromwell, a Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, and more—read on! As part of Congress...