March 2nd, 2022
Mar-Apr University Affairs PDF FEATURES A job half doneIt’s been five years since the Naylor report was released, and some say there’s been too little progress toward supporting Canadian research in fundamental science. Housing wantedUniversities are exploring ways to build more student accommodations of all kinds amid a worsening national crisis. Check your bias at…
February 22nd, 2022
A call to stop the collective and damaging madness where we may publish more, but are falling more behind. BY ALEXANDER CLARK & BAILEY SOUSA | FEB 14 2022 Australia’s national health research funder has acted to restrict assessment of each applicant to its marque research competitions to only 10 publications from the last decade….
February 7th, 2022
The ÆßÐDzʿª½± Social Science Week conference is this week, Monday, Feb. 7 to Friday, Feb. 11, and we’re looking forward to welcoming the ÆßÐDzʿª½± community to this online event. To see the list of events, click here: /programs/social-science-business-technologies/social-science/social-science-week
February 4th, 2022
Notable findings 97% of participants stated they experienced increased physical, mental, and emotional workload, and job demands during the 2020-2021 school year. The deteriorating mental health of Canadian public-school teachers has been caused in part by increased workload, uncertainty, and inadequate support from school, boards/districts, and Ministry leadership. Teachers are being pulled in multiple directions…
February 4th, 2022
Le monde est en transformation et les cégeps n’y échappent pas. L’intelligence artificielle, l’IA, fait partie de la donne. Comment approcher, avec réalisme et humanité, les technologies de l’IA qui sont omniprésentes dans nos vies et incontournables dans les organisations ? Le 11 novembre 2021, le congrès de la Fédération des cégeps portait justement sur le…
February 4th, 2022
As we write this post in January 2022, many teachers and education workers across Canada have returned to emergency remote and online teaching, or are in a state of pedagogical limbo, back to in-person teaching but fearing the next turn of events. After two years of a global pandemic, with its parade of abrupt shifts,…
February 3rd, 2022
The new partnership is an important step in further responding to Truth and Reconciliation Commission Call to Action 65, and supporting calls 71 to 76 The National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation (NCTR) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) are proud to announce their partnership on a national research program to advance…
January 19th, 2022
The pandemic may have shone the spotlight on all things science, but it will take more than scientific discoveries to ensure Canada emerges stronger post-COVID-19. In our rapidly changing world, government policymakers will need to recognize the important insights gained through humanities and social sciences research to drive COVID-19 recovery and secure a better future…
January 17th, 2022
The Panel on Research Ethics and the Secretariat on Responsible Conduct of Research are pleased to announce the release of TCPS 2: CORE-2022. This revised Course on Research Ethics (CORE) is based on the Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans – TCPS 2 (2018) and replaces the previous version of CORE as the official online course of…
January 17th, 2022
The Canada Research Coordinating Committee (CRCC) has released its 2020–21 progress report, Collective Response. The report illustrates how Canada’s federal research funding organizations worked together to meet the challenges facing Canadians and Canada’s research community due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The CRCC member organizations supported rapid response research while extending deadlines and funding, sharing research knowledge, advancing joint strategies, engaging…
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Article: It’s time to end Canada’s obsession with research quantity
February 22nd, 2022A call to stop the collective and damaging madness where we may publish more, but are falling more behind. BY ALEXANDER CLARK & BAILEY SOUSA | FEB 14 2022 Australia’s national health research funder has acted to restrict assessment of each applicant to its marque research competitions to only 10 publications from the last decade….