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Andrew Prentice - Does a mother's diet affect the risk of disease in her child?
No full textAndrew Prentice discusses recent research that suggests a mother's environment before conception may affect the risk of immunity and cancer risk in her child
Epigenetic echoes of your mother's diet | Andrew Prentice | TEDxLSHTM
No full textSperm meets egg. Now what? Epigeneticist Andrew Prentice searches for the answer to this question every day. In this talk he takes the emerging science of epigenetics and simplifies this seemingly complex subject by explaining the fundamental role that a mother’s diet at conception can have on her child’s long term health outcomes and how this knowledge could lead to ground-breaking interventions to improve the most vulnerable’s health. Find out if you actually are what your mother ate
Prentice Post (Winter 2015)
No full textHighlights the Prentice Institute's activities, initiatives and research affiliations.Prentice Post
Winter 2015
INSIDE THIS EDITION:
Prentice Affiliate Heidi MacDonald
celebrates national honour
Research Affiliate Glenda Bonifacio named
one of the most influential Filipino woman in
the world.
Prentice Institute Research Analyst
Germain Boco celebrates citizenship
Trevor Harrison and researchers from
12 universities receive 2.5 million
Prentice Institute introduces
Zehan Pan, Post Doctoral Fellow
More inside...
The on-line Prentice Post links you to all
our stories and events.
issuu.com/prenticeinstitute
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please email [email protected]
The Prentice Institute does research on the changing human population and its potential impacts on social and
economic issues, and communicates its findings widely.
The Prentice Institute and its research collaborators seek to understand long-term changes in the human and
economic environments, within a historical context, with particular attention to the role human actions play in
influencing those outcomes.
We conduct and integrate research on the dynamics of Canadian and global demography and their impacts on
economic well-being through migration, culture, trade and natural resource availability.
We communicate widely the output of our work and that of others to stimulate further research and to enable
Individuals, governments, and corporations to make better-informed decisions. We educate students and future
researchers.
The work of the Prentice Institute continues ever more actively in Fall
2015. In summer/fall, we welcomed three new post-doctoral fellows:
Daniel Dutton (Ph.D. in Community Health, U of Calgary), Zehan Pan
(Ph.D. in Economics, Fudan University, China), and Andrew Patterson
(Ph.D. in Sociology, U British Columbia). All are working hard to
build future research careers. That all three opted to join the Prentice
Institute, University of Lethbridge, attests to our growing stature and
reputation for research in global population and economy.
Our Research Affiliates, both at the U of L and across the world,
continue to distinguish themselves and the Prentice Institute with new
grants, important publications, reliance on media as well as social
media for knowledge mobilization (making our research accessible to
individuals and organizations to encourage evidence-based choices).
Our reach is local, national and international, as is the recognition we are regularly receiving.
We are building on existing partnerships with other units in Canada and elsewhere such as the Population Change and
Life Course Strategic Knowledge Cluster the Executive on which I serve. We have also been asked, as a leading
population research institute in Canada, to provide regular updates on our activities and opportunities to the website
of the Canadian Population Society. A new partnership is being developed with the Centre for Population Dynamics,
McGill University, for a network of population centres and researchers, tentatively called PopCan, which will provide
a data resource and training for population researchers.
Lastly, we are very pleased that Prentice Research Affiliates were central in the success of a new Ph.D. concentration
at the U of Lethbridge, Population Studies in Health. The first students will be admitted for Fall 2016.
All best wishes for the coming festive season.
Susan A. McDaniel
Director ’s Note
Mission Statement
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Heidi MacDonald, Prentice Institute Affiliate and Director of COHT, UofL
Celebrates National Honour
Centre for Oral History and Tradition assists nationally-recognized community project
September 18, 2015 The University of Lethbridge’s Centre for Oral
History and Tradition (COHT) played an integr al r ole in a pr oject that
has been recognized with a national honour:
The Picture Butte Museum and the Coyote Flats Pioneer
Village has been awarded the 2015 Governor General’s
History Award for Excellence in Community Programming.
The Governor General’s award recognizes community projects that tell stories about Canada’s past in unique and innovative way s.
Coyote Flats was selected as the 2015 award recipient for an oral history project that saw seniors share their life stories a nd memories
on video.
Prentice Institute welcomes our Post Doctoral Fellow
Zehan Pan
Doctor of Economics, Fudan University, China
Also working with
Research Affiliate Wei Xu, Department of Geography
Han’s research is on migration and regional development in China
Prentice Institute Research Analyst Germain Boco and
family swore the oath of citizenship before Judge
Tenannt on Friday, September 25, 2015 at the
Lethbridge courthouse.
Boco’s first duty as a Canadian citizen?
Voting in this year’s Federal election.
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The Story Bridge from Bhutan to Lethbridge
A participatory documentary
screened November 19 , 2015 at the Galt Museum, Lethbridge
Wednesday January 27, 2016
Theatre Gallery, Lethbridge Public Library at 7pm
See www.uleth.ca/prenticeinstitute/
Dr. Kazemipur`s book received the
The John Porter Tradition of Excellence Book Award
By the Canadian Sociological Association (CSA)
Jeff Bingley affiliated with
the Prentice Institute for Global Population and Economy
and Centre for Community and Culture (CCC)
Community Events
Prentice Institute Research Affiliate
Jim Byrne held an interactive
talk in August 2015 at the
Waterton Falls Theater on science
and solution of climate change.
Lethbridge home to the largest Bhutanese community in Canada
Facebook Link
This film, created by Jeff Bingley, a Master of Arts Candidate at the Prentice Institute for
Global Population and Economy at the UofL, and the Bhutanese community covers
migration of Bhutanese refugees to Lethbridge. The research project is from the
perspective of the Canadian Bhutanese community members who assisted in the making of
the film. The project bridges the Bhutanese social and cultural practices from their homeland
to their new home in Lethbridge via digital filmmaking and storytelling.
Finding solutions to climate change challenges means we have to understand the possible impacts of
climate change will be for Canadians and the world.
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CRDCN 2015 National Conference
Research and Public Policy: Health, Economic and Social Perspectives
Susan McDaniel and Germain Boco
presented a paper in Toronto Nov 5-6, 2015
Marital Status Life Course Transitions and Well-Being in Canada
at the
In October, two of our post docs, Andrew Patterson and Zehan Pan, attended a conference in Edmonton
hosted by the Postdoctoral Fellows Association at the University of Alberta
The two presented abstracts of their current research to Alberta's large, interdisciplinary
community of postdoctoral fellows, and fielded questions about our research in a question
& answer period. Andrew and Han felt the response they received was very positive.
CPS Fall 2015 Newsletter
Adébiyi Germain Boco
Susan A. McDaniel
and Alexander Darku
presented at the annual meeting of the
Canadian Population Society,
June 2-4, 2015, University of Ottawa.
This timely and innovative book delivers a comprehensive
analysis of the non-recognition of the right to a family life
of migrant live-in domestic and care workers in Argentina,
Canada, Germany, Italy, Lebanon, Norway, the Philippines,
Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, the United Arab Emirates, the United States of America, and
Ukraine. Combining legal, sociological and social policy perspectives, it takes an interdiscipli-nary
approach to international and national legal frameworks, the political economy of globalised
reproductive labour, and the experience and coping strategies of migrant domestic and care work-ers.
Highlighting constructed, ideological and imagined responses to life away from home, it of-fers
theoretical, empirical and international perspectives on the right to a family life. Bringing
together established and emerging scholars from a variety of academic disciplines, it focuses in
particular on the voices of migrant domestic workers and their positioning as active subjects with
agency to articulate their needs and claims.
Glenda Tibe Bonifacio is an Associate Pr ofessor in Women and Gender Studies at the
University of Lethbridge, Canada and Prentice Institute for Global Population and Economy
Research Affiliate.
Prentice Post
Chapter in book (13) Struggling to Make Time for Family: Work and Family Life of Korean-Chinese Institutional Care
Workers in South Korea; Prentice Institute former Post Doc Seong-gee Um.
New Publication
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Prentice Institute Research Affiliate Cheryl Currie led the nomination for the
Friends of Health Science Award given to Dr. Susan Christenson and Dr. Esther
Tailfeathers in October 2015.
Both Dr. Christenson and Dr. Tailfeathers have shown exemplary leadership in
mobilizing the Kanai community to respond to the fentanyl crisis.
Prentice Institute Research Affiliate and Assistant Professor at McGill
University, Dr. Raphael Lencucha, invited to become
Associate Member of McGill’s IHSP
Raphael will help the Institute realize its potential as a meeting place for
researchers throughout McGill to explore health and social policy.
Trevor Harrison, Pr ofessor of Sociology, Dir ector of the Par kland Institute and
Prentice Institute Research Affiliate, is part of a large group of researchers from 12
Universities that has been awarded a six-year, 2.5 million Social Sciences and Humani-ties
and Research Council (SSHRC) grant, Mapping the
Power of the Carbon-Extractive Corporate Resource
Sector. An additional $2 million in matching contributions
has been committed from participating universities and
community partners in three provinces.
University of Lethbridge professor and Prentice Institute Research Affiliate
Dr. Glenda Bonifacio has been selected to receive the 100 Most Influential
Filipina Women in the World Award in the Innovator and Thought Leader category.
Bonifacio named one of the most
influential Filipina women in the world
Acknowledgments
Economics for public policy
Miles Corak, Pr ofessor of Economics, UOttawa and Pr entice Institute Resear ch Affiliate
writes on economics that matters
Susan McDaniel, Dir ector of the Pr entice Institute, continues her active contr ibutions to national and inter national
organizations. She continues as Chair of the Scientific Advisory Committee, Canadian Council of Academies (CCA) and in
that role, serves on the Leadership Transition Committee for the new CEO of the CCA. Recently served as Chair of the
Special Multidisciplinary Committee of the Canadian Foundation for Innovation: this the blue-ribbon committee at CFI that
decides on final awards for major infrastructure funding. McDaniel also continues on the National Statistic Council, advis-ing
on the collection and analysis of official data in Canada.
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We had a well r ounded and infor mative ar r ay of Br own Bag lectur es this Winter Semester and ar e alr eady wor king
on our Spring Sessions. We encourage all of you to watch our webpage for upcoming Brown Bag events.
The Prentice Institute
Brown Bag Series – Fall/Winter 2015
Thursday 17 September 2015
“Making Sense of Local Food Systems: Perceptions, Concerns, Possibilities”
Bill Ramp, Pr entice Institute Resear ch Affiliate Associate Pr ofessor in the Depar tment of Sociology,
University of Lethbridge
Friday 9 October 2015
“Demography and Public Policy: The importance of macro-level analysis”
Kevin McQuillan, Pr entice Institute Resear ch Affiliate, Deputy Pr ovost, Univer sity of Calgar y
Thursday 15 October 2015
“The Greek Crisis: Lessons and Implications”
Trevor Harrison, Pr entice Institute Resear ch Affiliate and Pr ofessor of Sociology
Kien C. Tran, Associate Pr ofessor of Economics
Thursday 22 October 2015
“Rural Migration and the Great Economic Transition in China”
Chunyang Pan, Depar tment of Economics, East China Univer sity of Science and Technology
Friday 27 November 2015
“Inequalities and social exclusion:
Moving beyond the status quo”
Alexander Darku, Associate Pr ofessor of Economics and Associate Dir ector and Resear ch Affiliate of the
Prentice Institute for Global Population and Economy
Peter Kellett, Nur sing instr uctor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the Univer sity of Lethbr idge and Ph.D.
Candidate associated with The Prentice Institute
Rossitsa Yalamova, Associate Pr ofessor of Finance, Faculty of Management at the Univer sity of Lethbr idge
Canadas long form
census to be reinstated
for 2016 census!
“We have 2 classes of forecasters: Those who don't know . . . and those who don't know
they don't know.” John Kenneth Galbraith
Sharon Kanashiro from the Facilities-
Caretaking Department at the UofL has
named our “duck” in the gumboots from
the 2015 summer edition of the Post.
Gullible “Geo” is his name.
A well traveled gull in boots.
www.uleth.ca/prenticeinstitute/ Prentice Institute PrenticInst
The Prentice Institute for
Global Population and Economy
University of Lethbridge
4401 University Drive
Lethbridge, Alberta T1K 3M
Prentice Post (Summer 2015)
No full textHighlights the Prentice Institute's activities, initiatives and research affiliations.Inside this issue:
The Prentice Institute does research on
the changing human population and its
potential impacts on social and economic
issues, and communicates its findings
widely.
The Prentice Institute and its research
collaborators seek to understand long-term
changes in the human and economic
environments, within a historical context,
with particular attention to the role human
actions play in influencing those out-comes.
We conduct and integrate research on the
dynamics of Canadian and global demog-raphy
and their impacts on economic well-being
through migration, culture, trade
and natural resource availability.
We communicate widely the output of our
work and that of others to stimulate fur-ther
research and to enable individuals,
governments, and corporations to make
better-informed decisions. We educate
students and future researchers.
Director’s Note & Name our ‘Duck’ 1
Prentice Institute Publication 1
Prentice Institute Post—Docs 2
Prentice Institute News 3-4
Recognitions 5
Book Publications, 2013-2015 6-7
Public Lectures Spring 2015 8
Mission Statement
1
Di rec tor’ s Note
Prentice Post Summer 2015
Prent ice Institute Publicat ion
Summer 2015 is far from a time of fun in
the sun for us in the Prentice Institute. It is
full steam ahead with our many research
and outreach endeavours. Many of us
associated with the Prentice Institute are
giving research papers at various
conferences. And all are busy doing research
and writing up our research for publication.
The reach and recognition of the
Prentice Institute grows each year locally,
nationally and internationally. Our research
is always peer-reviewed and academic. This
gives the research we do a special credibility
and helps build our reputation across the
world. You will get a sense of the breadth
and amount of research we are doing from
checking the URL below. This will take you
to a summary report of our research over
only a two year period. It will be apparent
why the reach and reputation of the
Prentice Institute is growing by leaps and
bounds.
Wishing all our followers and supporters an
enjoyable summer.
~Susan A. McDaniel
Who is the ‘duck’ in
gumboots? Well, let me
introduce this duck, which
is actually a gull. What
everyone in the Prentice
Institute refers to as a
duck, seems to make an
appearance every time I
appear in any news story
that includes a photo. This
is one photogenic ‘duck’ so
we thought maybe she/he
has become our mascot.
She/he may need a name.
Suggestions welcome.
The Prentice Institute has published a summary report
showcasing the outstanding research done by our many
afiliates at the University of Lethbridge, across Canada
and over-seas. Covering the academic years of 2013-
2015, this publication highlights the numerous ways our
affiliates contribute to their diverse fields of study.
Included is how active many of them are in outreach to
their communities and society at large. We are proud to
present our research, please go to: http://issuu.com/
prenticeinstitute/docs/research_affiliate_book
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Prent ice Inst itute Post Docs
Prentice Institute Post Doc Dr. Jing Shen says goodbye
Dr. Andrew Patterson joins us from the
University of British Columbia where he
completed his Ph.D. in Sociology. His
research compares the impact of political
regimes on population health. He finds a surprisingly strong relationship
between democratic governance and population health. As part of his post-doctoral
research, he intends to compare more regime types, further
exploring the relationship between democracy, economic prosperity and
health, attempting to discern why neither systems of accountability for
leaders’ decisions nor social inequalities act as mediators. He is very keen
to analyse causes and explanations of the relationship of governance to
population health, relying on an ecological
perspective.
We are sad to see Jing leave our Institute early. She completes her journey here on
April 30th and will return to her husband in Toronto shortly thereafter.
We wish you well Jing, with all your future endeavours!
Dr. Daniel Dutton is currently a Research Associate at The School of
Public Policy, University of Calgary. His training is in population health and
economics and he has a special interest in how policy can change
population-level health outcomes. In the past he worked for the Ontario
Ministry of Finance before moving to Alberta for his Ph.D.
On a side note, in a funny email exchange, Daniel wanted me to mention that
he is very disorganized . I don’t believe it.
The Prentice Institute has two new Post-Docs ~ July 2015
Dr . S e o n g - ge e Um, f o rme r p o s t - d o c t o r a l fe l l ow a t t he P r e n t ic e
In s t i t u t e , i s n o t o n l y c o - a u t h o r wi th S u s a n McDa n i e l o f t h e re ce n t l y
p u b l i s h e d 2 0 1 5 b o o k , S t at e s an d M ark e t s : Pu b l i c Po l i c y i n Can ad a
(Ox f o r d Un i ve r s i t y P r e s s ) , b u t s h e h a s r e c e n tl y b e e n awa r d e d a
p e rma n e nt j o b a s Re se a r c he r wi t h th e We l l e s l e y In s t i t u t e i n
T o r o n t o . h t t p :/ /ww w.we l l e s l e yi n s t i t u t e .c om/
Congratulations Seong -gee!
(We l l e s l e y i s d e d i c a t e d t o u r b a n h ea l t h )
Summer 2015 Prentice Post
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New a f f i l i at e
He r b Eme r y
Give the gift of reading
A people-to-people initiative to rebuild school
libraries in disaster-affected communities
ReadWorld Foundation has sent over 30 boxes of
donated books to Tacloban City, Philippines to help
rebuild libraries in public schools affected by super
typhoon Haiyan. This was made possible by the
generosity of the Lethbridge community- schools,
students, teachers, parents, colleagues, friends,
residents, and West Lethbridge Lions Club.
Update:
It takes more than 1 box to reconstruct libraries damaged by the strongest typhoon ever recorded. The Lethbridge community has
continued donate books and we need to ship them. We are looking for sponsors to help us send these books to the Philippines.
Shipping cost of 1 standard box (18 x 18 x 33) is $90. Please contact [email protected] if you wish to become a
sponsor. We accept individual, group, and corporate sponsorship.
Prent ice Inst itute News
The Prentice Institute is pleased to welcome
Our Newest Research Affiliate (International)
Dr. Shirley Hsiao-Li Sun, Associate Professor of Sociology, School of
Humanities and Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Dr. Shirley Hsiao-Li Sun studies family, population and genomic medicine in
global contexts. She was a Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Brit-ish
Columbia (UBC) for AY2014-2015, while on sabbatical leave from Nanyang
Technological University (NTU) in Singapore. She is a graduate of New York
University, and the author of Population Policy and Reproduction in Singapore:
Making Future Citizens (Routledge, 2012).
More about her work can be found at http://works.bepress.com/shirleysun.
ReadWorld Foundation
Founding President, Prentice Institute Research Affiliate, Glenda Bonifacio
IS THIS HOW YOU FEEL?
http://isthishowyoufeel.weebly.com/this-is-how-scientists-feel.html (James Byrne)
In the Media
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News Cont inues
Prentice Post Summer 2015
Gender, Migration and the Work of Care, SSHRC Partnership Project
Sub-Project Title: Demography, Economics and Policy
Domain: Structural Factors a in the Supply & Demand for Care
Under the direction of Susan McDaniel, Sub-project lead and
Co-Investigator of overall project, participants gathered from
across Canada to share ongoing research, discuss
collaborations and set deliverable outcomes.
The Workshop began with a social evening followed by an
intensive day of presentations and round-table discussions. The
major topics included: an overview of the larger project; global
migration, inequality, ageing populations, transnationalism;
temporary foreign workers, low-skilled vs high skilled, human
capital, deskilling; pathways to migration, world system theory,
institutional theory, social network theory; reproductive labour
vs productive labour, comparison research, mutually dependent
care chains; producer lead migration, consumer lead migration,
retirement migration and many others. The working day ended
with renewed connections and clear ideas where the research
and collaborations are.
Front Left - Right
Zenaida Ravanera (Western University), Matthew Kerr (University of Lethbridge), Alex Zanidean (University of Lethbridge), Mon ica van Huystee
(Citizenship and Immigration Canada), Seong-gee Um (University of Montreal), Shirley Hsiao-Li Sun (,Nanyang Technological University) Glenda
Bonifacio (University of Lethbridge)
Standing Left – Right
Teresa Abada (Western University), Peter Kellett (University of Lethbridge), Leanne Little (University of Lethbridge), Susan McDaniel (University of
Lethbridge), John Rietschlin (Employment & Social Development Canada), Ito Peng (University of Toronto)
03.11.2015
Economist and Prentice Institute Research Affiliate Richard E. Mueller from the
University of Lethbridge lectured at UM (Universidad De Montevideo)
On March 11, Richard E. Mueller from the University of Lethbridge visited the UM. He met with authorities and
students and lectured in the cycle of seminars of the School of Economics. Researchers Alejandro Cid, Ana Balsa,
Marcelo Caffera, Ignacio Presno and Daniel Ferrés attended his talk.
He presented his research on access to
post-secondary education and also
reported the attendance rates to university
among children who were immigrants or
were born to immigrant parents. He finds
that these children are more likely to
attend post-secondary education than
non-immigrant youth.
www.um.edu.uy/international/news/148-
economist-from-the-university-of-lethbridge-
at-the-um/
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25 years ~ Pamela Winsor, Education
15 years ~ James Graham, New Media - Abdie Kazemipur, Sociology - Heidi MacDonald, History
Richard Mueller, Economics and Wei Xu, Geography
10 years ~ Henning Bjornlund (retired 2015), Economics and Bonnie Lee, Health Science
Retiree Recognition ~ Peter McCormick, Political Science
40 years ~ Reginald Bibby, Sociology, and Peter McCormick
Prentice Institute Research Affiliate Annual Long Service Awards and Retiree Recognition, UofL
May 2015
The sun never sets on the age of e-globalization
Prentice Institute Research Affiliate, Constantine Passaris
troymedia.com
Electronic interconnectedness - e-globalization - is the virtual glue that holds the
contemporary global economy together.
U of L sociologist & Prentice Institute Research
Affiliate Kazemipur wins prestigious book award
Dr. Abdie Kazemipur, a University of Lethbridge professor of sociology and
the University Scholar research chair in social sciences, has been named by
the Canadian Sociological Association (CSA) as this year’s recipient of
The John Porter Tradition of Excellence Book Award for his recent book
The Muslim Question in Canada: A Story of Segmented Integration
(2014, UBC Press).
Reg Bibby
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Please take the time to check out all of our affiliates publications, news releases, conferences and opportunities on the
Prentice Institute website www.uleth.ca/prenticeintsitute
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Book Publicat ions 2013-2015
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please email [email protected]
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For more videos from the Prentice Institute go to the website at ww.uleth.ca/prenticeinstitute or type Prentice Institute on YouTube
We had a well r ounded and infor mative ar r ay of Br own Bag lectur es this last semester and ar e alr eady wor king on
our upcoming sessions. We encourage all of you to watch our webpage for upcoming Brown Bag events.
Friday 9 January 2015
“Canadian Families and Care-Related Expenses”
Karen Duncan, Associate Professor, Department of Family Social Sciences, University of Manitoba
Thursday 5 February 2015
“Host Cities and the Olympics: An Uneasy Relationship?”
Harry H. Hiller, Director of The Cities and the Olympics Project and Faculty Professor of Urban Sociology at the
University of Calgary
Thursday 12 March 2015
“The Resource Curse: The Challenges of Managing an Economy Dependent on Volatile Commodity Prices”
Herbert Emery, Prentice Institute Research Affiliate, Program Director for Health Policy in the School of Public
Policy, University of Calgary and Managing Editor of Canadian Public Policy/Analyse de politiques
Thursday 9 April 2015
“International Development, Poverty, and Income Differentials: A Special Reference to Sub-Saharan Africa”
Alexander Darku, Associate Director, Prentice Institute for Global Population and Economy,
Associate Professor, Economics
Department, University of Lethbridge
Wednesday 22 April 2015
“Personalized Medicine and Asian DNA: Pharmacogenomics and Market Forces”
Dr. Shirley Hsiao-Li Sun, Associate Professor, Sociology, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
The Prentice Institute
Brown Bag Series – Winter & Spring 2015
On Thursday, March 12, 2015 the Prentice Institute hosted an evening Cafe Conversation discussion panel at
Osho Restaurant. Panelists included Trevor Harrison, Associate Dir ector Pr entice Institute, Pr ofessor of So-ciology,
UofL and Director of Parkland Institute, Herbert Emery, Prentice Institute Research Affiliate, Program
Director for Health Policy in the School of Public Policy, UofC and Managing Editor of Canadian Public Policy/
Analyse de politiques Geoffrey E. Hale, Professor, Department of Political Science, UofL. Moderated by Pamela
Winsor, Pr entice Institute Resear ch Affiliate Pr ofessor , Faculty of Education, Uof
June 2015 - Epigenetics, reducing violence by teachers, and HIV in homophobic countries
No full textAndrew Prentice discusses how a mother's diet can affect their child's health. Karen Devries tells us how a new toolkit has halved violence by teachers against children in Uganda. Ford Hickson explains why homophobic countries may be set to see a rise in HIV cases
Renaissance architecture and ornament in Spain : a series of examples selected from the purest works executed between the years 1500-1560
No full textmeasured and drawn together with short descriptive text by Andrew N Prentice. Archt. Associate of the Roysl Institute of Britisch Architects. Soane Medallist 188
Father Andrew Mullen 1790-1818: a study in early nineteenth century spirituality
No full textThis thesis is laid out in three parts: Part I. The life and death of Andrew Mullen. The life is based, to a large extent, on a long letter to his mother, Catherine Mullen, dated 7 January 1810. The letter gives a definite insight into his spirituality based on his membership of the Archconfraternity of the Blessed Sacrament. There is a hint that he had a premonition of an early death. Part II. The burial of Andrew Mullen and the immediate cult to him This is based on documentary evidence. Part III. Most of this part is a catalogue of testimonies taken from 1993 onwards. Then there is the conclusion on the popular devotion to Andrew Mullen stressing the theological aspect of the subject. In the course of writing the thesis it was decided to separate the documentary evidence from the oral tradition. This was advantageous in developing the thesis, and the documents provided a secure basis for the oral tradition. Two pieces of information were found in March 1997. They are death notices: 2 January 1819, The Leinster Journal and 7 January 1819, The Car low Morning Post. There is a slight discrepancy between the two on the date of his death. Also this discrepancy shows a slight difference from the date of the tombstone
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Prentice Post (Spring 2013)
No full textHighlights the Prentice Institute's activities, initiatives and research affiliations.Inside this issue:
Spring 2013
The Prentice Institute does research on
the changing human population and its
potential impacts on social and economic
issues, and communicates its findings
widely.
The Prentice Institute and its research
collaborators seek to understand long-term
changes in the human and economic
environments, within a historical context,
with particular attention to the role human
actions play in influencing those out-comes.
We conduct and integrate research on the
dynamics of Canadian and global demog-raphy
and their impacts on economic well-being
through migration, culture, trade
and natural resource availability.
We communicate widely the output of our
work and that of others to stimulate fur-ther
research and to enable individuals,
governments, and corporations to make
better-informed decisions. We educate
students and future researchers.
Director’s Note 1
Accolades 1
Prentice Institute New Affiliate 2
Prentice Institute Research
Affiliates
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Prentice Institute Outreach 3
Spotlight 4
Prentice Institute Students 5
Prentice Brownbag Seminars 6
Prentice Pillar 6
Mission Statement
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Di rec tor’ s Note
Prentice Post
Accolades
S u s a n Mc D a n i e l , D i r e c t o r o f t h e P r e n t i c e I n s t i t u t e f o r G l o b a l
P o p u l a t i o n a n d E c o n omy , C a n a d a R e s e a r c h C h a i r ( T i e r 1 )
i n G l o b a l P o p u l a t i o n a n d L i f e C o u r s e , P r e n t i c e R e s e a r c h C h a i r
i n G l o b a l P o p u l a t i o n & E c o n omy a n d P r o f e s s o r o f S o c i o l o g y
R e c e i v e s Q u e e n ’ s D i amo n d J u b i l e e Me d a l
The Prentice Institute for Global Population &
Economy is pleased to announce that our Director,
Professor Susan McDaniel, FRSC, has been award-ed
the prestigious Queen Elizabeth II Diamond
Jubilee Medal. In a ceremony held at the Universi-ty
of Lethbridge on February 26, 2013, Dr.
McDaniel was honoured to receive her award from
Professor Yolande Grisé, President of The Royal
Society of Canada, and the Society’s Executive
Director, Darren Gilmour, as well as from the sen-ior
administration at the University of Lethbridge, notably Andrew Hakin and Daniel
Weeks. This is the first time ever that a President of the Royal Society has visited the Uni-versity
of Lethbridge. Susan was nominated by the Royal Society which received large
numbers of nominations, all of which were peered reviewed by Fellows of the Royal Soci-ety.
This award is given in recognition for Susan’s outstanding contributions to Canada
and the world through her research, publications and service to society, public policy and
to the Royal Society of Canada, where she has selflessly given her time and talents.
Spring 2013 sees the prestige and the reach of the Prentice Institute for Global
Population and Economy growing locally, nationally, and internationally. This past
year saw a number of new graduate students joining the institute, along with new
Research Affiliates and the arrival of our new postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Willa Liu,
from the University of Toronto.
This past year also saw our highly popular Distinguished Lecture series draw
increasing numbers from the community, students, faculty and staff. One of our
distinguished guests was co-sponsored with us and two community groups. Our
Brown Bag noontime lectures and panels have similarly become so popular that
we have on several occasions far exceeded the capacity of our Board Room!
Consistent with the Prentice Institute’s mandate and mission, we are reaching out to the world and
achieving significant recognition. Recent and upcoming travels by those associated with the Prentice
have included Australia, Taiwan, China, Germany, Greece, Japan and Korea, as well the United States
and various places across Canada. Researchers associated with the Prentice Institute are regularly invit-ed
to give talks on their research to groups across the world and Canada, and locally. We are invited to
speak with university students, policy makers both public and corporate, and diverse other groups. We
are, as well, consulted regularly by the media. All of this gives the Prentice Institute prominence and
brings our research to public awareness and action.
The gift of funds for graduate student scholarships in Demography and Population Studies by the Socie-ty
of Edmonton Demographers is wonderful acknowledgement of the Prentice Institute and what we are
working to accomplish.
We remain optimistic that our new Ph.D. concentration in Population Studies and Health will be
approved, despite the deep cuts to Post Secondary Education across Alberta announced in the recent
provincial budget. We continue to keep our eyes focused on the prize: the building of the Prentice
Institute’s capacity for research and public education.
Prent ice Research Af filiates Feature
Prentice Post Spring 2013
Richard E. Mueller is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of
Lethbridge and Associate Director of the Education Policy Research Initiative at
the University of Ottawa. He recently completed a secondment in the
Social Analysis Division at Statistics Canada in Ottawa. His research
includes various labour market issues including Canada-US migration and the
determinants of access to post-secondary education. His work has
appeared in a number of economics and Canadian studies journals, and edited
volumes. Recently he is co-editor of two volumes on post-secondary education
published by McGill-Queen’s University Press.
Rick has travelled extensively, is the proud father three sons and two
precocious cats. See: directory.uleth.ca/users/richard.mueller
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Prent ice Inst itute New Research Af filiate
Olu Awosoga is a consulting statistician by profession with interest in the applica-tion
of statistics in Education, Health and Social Sciences. He is currently an
Assistant Professor in Health Sciences at the University of Lethbridge. He teaches
Applied Statistics courses to students in Nursing, Public Health, and Addictions
Counselling program at both undergraduate and graduate levels. He has worked
with various faculty members on their projects in health sciences as a
statistical consultant with advice on questionnaire design, quantitative research
methods, setting up database and data analysis. His research interests include: Re-peated
Measures Design, Longitudinal Studies, Categorical Data Analysis,
Biostatistics, Parametric and Nonparametric methods, Time Series and Survival
data analysis.
He is a co-investigator in the following projects: Health Status of Childcare Work-ers
in Southern Alberta; Moral Distress in the Care of Persons with
Alzheimer Disease in Residential Care Facilities; Slave Lake Wildfire Study;
CAETL Project to assess teaching effectiveness in undergraduate applied statistics course; Assessing Urban
Aboriginal Housing and Homelessness in Canada; Effects of Hope on Risky Behaviours and Health Status of
Adolescents; A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial of Congruence Couple Therapy for Pathological Gambling;
and a host of other studies still at the planning stage. See: directory.uleth.ca/users/olu.awosoga
Miles Corak, the Prentice Institute’s newest Canadian Research Affiliate is a Professor at the
University of Ottawa in labour economics. Dr. Corak is working on child rights, poverty,
immigration, social and economic mobility, unemployment, and social policy. Much of his
research involves comparisons across countries and is detailed in numerous articles as well as
his blog and twitter feeds. Miles’ research on mobility has been cited by the U.S. President.
Currently he is working on issues dealing with the socio-economic status of immigrants and
children of immigrants, and also with comparisons in the development and well-being of
children in the rich countries. See: milescorak.com
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Spring 2013 Prentice Post
Prent ice Inst itute Outreach
In March we held our 2nd Annual
Café Conversation
Colleagues and friends, both old and new, of the Prentice Institute packed the room at the Osho restaurant as
we enjoyed delicious food and drink while participating in the presentations of three well-informed panelists.
This Café Conversation was on one of the most talked about issues affecting the world today: Climate
Change. This unique forum allowed the topic to be presented and discussed with diversity.
We hope to enjoy more of these informative community outreach sessions. Stay tuned to our website for
upcoming community events. See: www.uleth.ca/prenticeinstitute
The President of the Social Sciences and Humanities Council of
Canada (SSHRC), Dr. Chad Gaffield, visited the Prentice Institute
for a quick ‘hello’ while visiting the University on April 10, 2013.
Dr. Gaffield zipped through the campus in the morning, and gave an
open talk for faculty and graduate students at Andy’s Place at
9:45am. Details of his talk are found here
www.uleth.ca/graduatestudies/node/952/
With Dr. Susan McDaniel on his left, Dr. Gaffield is holding her
new book, Global Aging, which he mentions in his U-wide talk. To
his right is Dr. Alexander Darku, Associate Director of the Prentice
Institute.
Thank you to our panelists,
James Byrne and Bryson Brown of the UofL and Gwendolyn Blue of UofC,
for the riveting Café Conversation on
Climate Change: Impacts, Risks, Solutions - March 11, 2013.
To Susan McDaniel, UofL for moderating the conversation, keeping everyone in line and adding
her own academic perspective.
Most of all, to ALL who joined us at Osho’s with you, information comes alive.
Keep the conversations going!!
The Prentice is an ever changing, ever growing venture and as I started gathering all the latest Spotlights
on all of our affiliates near and far, I began to see that we have completely outdone ourselves. With a
serious number of publications, articles, lectures and grants, as well as all the exciting new research the
Prentice Institute and its affiliates are a bee hive of activity. ***Nancy Metz, Administrative Assistant.
Recent Publications
In the Public Eye (a sample only)
1 2 3 4 5 Questions - Dr. Olu Awosoga - Assistant Professor in the Health Sciences - April 4, 2013 Dr. Olu
Awosoga, Prentice Affiliate, speaks to the Legend about his research. (Page 7, April 2013, volume12, issue 8)
The World is Leaving Canada’s Carbon Economy Behind - James Byrne PhD., Professor of Geography,
Prentice Institute Research Affiliate - March 14, 2013
www.ipolitics.ca/2013/03/14/the-world-is-leaving-canadas-carbon-economy-behind
Susan McDaniel: Fruits of the Earth: Not all Belong at the Top. November 15, 2013 posted by Susan
invitation on Broadbent Institute Blog
www.broadbentinstitute.ca/en/blog/susan-mcdaniel-fruits-earth-not-all-belong-top
To keep up on publication's of our research affiliates please check our site at
www.uleth.ca/prenticeinstitute/research/publications
Prentice Post Spring 2013
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Spot light
To be added or removed from the Prentice Institute Newsletter list
please email [email protected]
Global Ageing in the Twenty-First Century Challenges,
Opportunities and Implications
Edited by Susan A. McDaniel, University of Lethbridge, Canada and
Zachary Zimmer, University of California at San Francisco, USA
The Public Policy Making Process in Ghana: How
Politicians and Civil Servants Deal with Public Problems
Edited by Frank Ohemeng, University of Ottawa, Barbara Carroll,
McMaster University, Joseph Ayee, University of KwaZulu-Natal
& Alexander Bilson Darku, University of Lethbridge
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
Zora Neale Hurston
Spring 2013 Prentice Post
Prent ice Inst itute Students
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Over the past 18 years, Peter Kellett has worked as a registered nurse, nurse educator and manager in both provincial and
federal (FNIHB) health systems in three Canadian provinces and one U.S. State in the areas of medical/surgical care,
emergency care, primary health care, community health, and First Nations Health. Peter is a member of the nursing pro-gram
in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Lethbridge. He holds a Master of Nursing degree in popula-tion
nursing/epidemiology, and is currently a Ph.D. student in Demography with the Prentice Institute for Global Popula-tion
and Economy. See: directory.uleth.ca/users/peter.kellett
Tanya Byrne is a second year M.Sc. candidate, majoring in multidisciplinary studies. Her research interests include
vulnerability to climate change, food security, and household adaptive capacity. Her current research involves a sub-national
assessment of relative vulnerability to climate change in rural Nicaragua. While at UofL, Tanya has maintained
a 4.0 GPA and was awarded the 2013 25th Anniversary MA/ MSc scholarship. She completed her undergraduate degree
at the UofA where she graduated, with honors, from the Bachelor of Commerce program in 2008. She spent three years
working as a management consultant in Edmonton before moving to Panama in 2011. While in Panama, Tanya spent her
time doing free-lance consulting work, learning Spanish, surfing and volunteering with at-risk youth in a suburb of Pan-ama
City. In addition to her Masters work, she has been part of a project that focuses on implementing healthcare information technolo-gy
(IT) on First Nations Reserves in Alberta. The team has been nominated for the 2013 Deputy Minster’s Award for Excellence.
Celeste Barnes is currently completing a Multidisciplinary Master of Science at the University of Lethbridge in the area
of geography, new media, and sociology. Her research focus is on modelling coastal population and food production
vulnerabilities to sea level rise and tropical cyclone threats in the Caribbean. Prior to resuming university, Celeste was
employed in the Information Technology field. She was responsible for managing staff and budgets for annual opera-tions,
numerous capital projects, computer hardware and software contracts, and procurement in a fiscally responsible
manner. She implemented security relating to computing systems as well as policy, procedure, and documentation
approvals to ensure the business computing environment functioned smoothly. She focused on team work, improved
customer satisfaction and communication to aid the business user community. Celeste has worked with all levels of an organization to
reach a common vision.
Samuel Mantey Ofori Dei, from Ghana, is interested in how to improve the health and well-being of people residing in
poor countries. Being from a poor community himself, Samuel was witness to the devastating effects of diseases and the
challenges faced by rural people in meeting their daily health needs. Samuel’s experiences with ineffective health care
and lack of necessary health interventions, has enabled him to utilize this knowledge by becoming involved in health
research to find solutions for devastating health problems facing disadvantaged populations. His intended
doctoral project, he feels, will assist him in this endeavour. Samuel with be starting the Ph.D. in Demography in Sep-tember,
2013
Heather McIntosh-Rivera is a Canadian-Belizean with a wealth of knowledge and experience in research and market
analysis, travel & tourism, project management, strategic business planning, and business development. In 2008 Heather
completed Bachelor of Management Degree with great distinction at the University of Lethbridge and began her career in
economic development. This fall, Heather will begin her Masters studies in Demography and part-time studies with Dr.
Susan McDaniel and in her thesis will explore the social, economic and cultural impacts of second-generation immi-grants
at the regional, provincial and national level.
LingLing Fan will be the Ph.D. in Demography in September 2013. She is interested in exploring the socio-cultural dimensions of
health, illness, and healthcare practices. In particular, she will focus her Ph.D. research on the effects of cultural practices on the LGS
Mennonites’ mental health, especially the links between the role of the Bible and its authority (such as the interpretation of the Bible)
and individual’s mental well-being. This research extends her Masters work at UofL which explored the beliefs and practices related to
death, dying and care for the end-of-life among the Low German-speaking (LGS) Mennonites. She will be funded by a CIHR grant to
Dr. Judith Kulig, Health Sciences.
The number of graduate students involved with the Prentice Institute are increasing. Their enthusiasm and topic diversity add
dimension to the mandate and mission of the Prentice Institute.
We are fortunate to have been awarded a grant from the Society of Edmonton Demographers (SED) to contribute to graduate scholar-ships
for students in Demography and Populations studies.
Prent ice Brownbag Seminars
* Podcast videos can be found on the website at www.uleth.ca/prenticeinstitute
We had a well rounded and informative array of Brown Bag lectures this Spring Semester and are
already working on our Fall Sessions. We encourage all of you to watch our webpage for
upcoming Brown Bag events.
*Friday 11 January 2103
Kurt Klein
“The Biofuels Frenzy:
Implications for Agriculture, Food
Security and the Environment”
*Thursday 31 January 2013
Alexander Darku
“Income Inequality, Status
Seeking and Savings in Canada”
Friday 8 February 2013
Cheryl Currie
“Pathways to Health for
Aboriginal Canadians:
The Role of Cultural Continuity”
Friday 1 March 2013
Pamela Winsor
“Helping to Make a Difference:
Literacy Teacher Education in
Diverse Global Contexts”
Friday 5 April 2013
Ivan Townshend, Olu Awosoga
and Judith Kulig
“Family Resilience and PTSD in
Children in Slave Lake”
*Friday 19 April 2013
Ana Ferrer, Dept. of Economics, UofC
“Labour Force Participation in
Immigrant Households”
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Prentice Post Spring 2013
It is always a good idea to take some good old Rn’R, (rest and relaxation). You crave it, your doctor tells you
it should be so and for health purposes it is a very good idea indeed. At the Prentice, however, I have learned a
new impression of ‘The good ol’ Rn’R’. It comes with expletives bursting from the office and a general, overall
form of frustration. As I am most curious, I often wondered what it was that was setting the fires in Susan’s
office on these occasion when she would moan, “I have to do another Rn’R..”
Well? I questioned, most interested, that’s not right! There should be no hair pulling, no growls and grrr’s
during your period of ‘rest and relaxation’! It did finally occur to me to ask why the ‘rest
and relaxation’ was so stressful when Susan calmly corrected me in stating that she would
certainly need to take an Rn’R from the latest … revise and resubmit… of journal articles.
Ahhh! Now I understand. Hair pulling indeed!
Prent ice Pillar
“Research is to see what everybody has seen and to think
what nobody has thought.” Alberta Szent-Gyorg
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