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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
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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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Prentice Post Summer 2015
To be added or removed from the Prentice Institute Newsletter list
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
Prentice Post (Winter 2011)
No full textHighlights the Prentice Institute's activities, initiatives and research affiliations.Message from the Director
What’s New?
Inside this issue:
Inaugural Issue
Winter 2011
Volume 1, Issue 1
The Prentice Institute will excel at re-searching
the changing human population
and its potential impacts on social and
economic issues, and communicating 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.
Each term the Prentice Insti-tute
holds Prentice Brown-bag
series. For Spring 2011,
the series will take place in
the Prentice Boardroom
(L1102)from 12 noon to 1:30
pm. All are welcome to bring
a lunch & attend.
Friday, January 14, 2011
Dr. Wei Xu, Associate Profes-sor,
Geography, “Urban Re-newal,
Functional Upgrading,
and Waterfront Redevelop-ment
: The Making of Shang-hai
as a Global City”
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Dr. Trevor Harrison, Profes-sor,
Sociology, “Guaranteed
Annual Income: The Return of
an Old Idea”
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Dr. Abdie Kazemipur, Profes-sor,
Sociology, “The Challenge
of Creating a Common Iden-tity
in a Diverse Society: The
Case of Canada.”
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Panel Discussion— Shifting
Landscapes of Childhood.
Panel Members include: Dr.
Elizabeth Galway, Associate
Professor, English, Dr. Janice
Newberry, Associate Profes-sor,
Anthropology, and Dr.
Amy von Heyking, Associate
Professor, Education, with Dr.
Susan McDaniel, Director,
Prentice Institute, as modera-tor.
Welcome to the inaugural
issue of The Prentice Post,
your source for updates on
the Prentice Institute’s activi-ties,
initiatives and research
affiliate profiles. We hope to
electronically publish The
Prentice Post twice yearly
with a wide and expanding
readership.
The Prentice Institute for
Global Population and Econ-omy
became fully operational
in mid-2009 with my appoint-ment
as Director and Prentice
Research Chair. It is my hon-our
to have been selected to
lead the Institute in its early
stages. Interim Director
Trevor Harrison (Sociology),
now Associate Director of the
Institute, made important
strides with the policy dia-logues
and hosting distin-guished
speakers such as
Margaret MacMillan (Oxford
University historian) and
David Foot (University of To-ronto
economist). Alexander
Darku (Economics) is now
also Associate Director of the
Institute.
Consistent with our mandate
to research the changing
human population, we are
actively building research
capacity, doing new research,
communicating our research
widely, as well as educating
students and future research-ers.
On all fronts, we are
grateful for the support and
partnership of the University
of Lethbridge.
In this first issue of The Pren-tice
Post, we are pleased to
share glimpses of what’s new
and happening at the Pren-tice.
As well, we profile Pren-tice
Institute Research Affili-ate,
Dr. Reginald Bibby’s
research.
In subsequent issues, we will
profile other of our Research
Affiliates.
We hope you will enjoy The
Prentice Post, and will feel
free to visit our evolving web-site:
www.uleth.ca/
prenticeinstitute/
Wishing you, yours and the
world a good 2011.
Dr. Susan A. McDaniel
Director, Prentice Institute
& Prentice
Research Chair
Message from Director 1
What’s New 1
Research Affiliates 2
Prentice Institute Dialogue Ses-sions
2
Prentice Institute Staff & Post-
Doctoral Fellow
2
Distinguished Speaker Series 3
The Prentice Post Features
Dr. Reginald Bibby
3
Conferences 4
Accolades 4
Mission Statement
1
Prentice Post
Prentice Institute Policy Dialogue Sessions
Research Affiliates
Prentice Dialogue Session 2009
Dr. David Foot, University of Toronto
Prentice Dialogue Session 2008
Dr. Abdie Kazemipur & Dr. Wei Xu
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Prentice Post Winter 2011 , Volume 1, Issue 1
The Prentice Institute currently has 20 research affiliates from 8 different University of
Lethbridge departments, These researchers are very productive—please link to the Prentice
Institute website at www.uleth.ca/prenticeinstitute/current_research/publications for a list
of current publications, and information about the Institute.
Future plans include invitations to researchers at key institutions in Canada, the U.S., and
internationally, in keeping with the mandate of the Institute, and University priorities, as well
as building international partnerships with sister institutes. Researchers affiliated with the
Prentice Institute have been successful in obtaining several new grants. Our researchers
have given local, national and international invited talks, addresses and research papers.
The Prentice Institute research has been covered in the Globe and Mail, and the CBC as
well as multiple other news media, both at home and internationally.
Two Policy Dialogue Sessions have been held in the Prentice Institute,.
The 2008 sessions dealt with issues of health; food security, geopolitical implications of
population change, Aboriginal peoples and labour markets, statistical and methododologi-cal
issues in the study of population and economics, immigration and labour markets, and
international migration.
In 2009 sessions included the role of policy and innovation in crises; the importance of
demographic shifts in age structure, and the growing socio-economic inequalities that effect
health.
A featured speaker, Dr. David Foot from the University of Toronto, spoke on "Inevitable Sur-prises:
Demographics and Economics in a Global Context."
Ali Fakih joined the
Institute in July
2010, as Research
Analyst. He is work-ing
on a three year
term appointment,
and also completing
his Ph.D. through
University of Mont-real,
in the field of
Applied Economics.
Dr. Kathrin Komp is a
postdoctoral re-searcher
at the Pren-tice
Institute. She
holds a PhD in sociol-ogy
from Free Univer-sity
Amsterdam. Her
research interests are
in life course, com-parative
international
research and re-search
methods.
Prentice Institute Staff and Postdoctoral Fellow
Sheila Matson is
the Administrative
Assistant to the
Director of the
Prentice
Institute.
Dr. Reginald Bibby, Research
Affiliate of the Prentice Insti-tute
and Professor, Sociology,
University of Lethbridge, is a
leading expert on Canadian
social trends, conducting
nationwide surveys since the
1970s. His Project Canada
surveys look at every aspect
of Canadians’ beliefs and
attitudes, from religion to
rock and sports.
His new book (January 2011),
Beyond the Gods and Back:
Religion’s Demise and Rise
and Why It Matters is a new
look at global data trends
and tendencies. Dr. Bibby’s
earlier “Gods” books have
focussed on understanding
Canadians’ beliefs in light of
significant social trends post
1960s. His new research
allows a thorough analysis of
religious and spiritual trends
in Canada, the United States,
and the British Isles as well
as in countries with religious
monopolies, like Muslim
countries, and countries with
a mainly non-religious orien-tation.
Dr. Bibby finds that Canada is
far from the bottom of the list
in terms of secularization.
Despite growing polarization
in Canada, as far as religious
beliefs and practices are con-cerned,
Bibby finds that
church attendance has not
changed much over the past
30 years.
“In the past, efforts to put
Canadian research findings
into cross-cultural perspective
have been limited primarily to
comparisons with the United
States and Britain. The
new data that are now avail-able
make it possible to look
at Canada relative to the en-tire
globe. The view is spec-tacular.
The global findings
force all of us to rethink our
comparative generalizations
about religion in Canada.”
“Further, relative to the rest
of the world, we are not par-ticularly
religious nor are we
particularly secular. The
name of the game in Canada
is polarization. We have a
fairly stable core who value
faith, and growing core who
don't, and a declining seg-ment
of ambivalent people in
between.”
“The findings focus on the ‘so
what?’ question - the implica-tions
for quality of life of Can-ada
experiencing grow-ing
religious polarization. Put
in global perspective, the
answer is, ‘Not a great deal’
when it comes to personal
happiness and the meeting of
spiritual needs. But the find-ings
also point to the loss of
an important source
of social civility, and a major
‘hit’ when it comes to how
Canadians deal with death.”
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Winter 2011 , Volume 1, Issue 1 Prentice Post
Distinguished
Speaker Series
In Spring 2009, the Prentice Brown bag
series featured Dr. Thomas Homer-Dixon,
University of Waterloo, author of The Inge-nuity
Gap, an event co-sponsored with the
University of Lethbridge Students' Union.
Dr. Homer-Dixon was part of a panel with
two of our Research Affiliates, Trevor Harri-son
(Sociology) and James Byrne
(Geography) discussing “Science and Poli-tics:
Tipping Points.”
On March 24 2010, the Prentice Institute
hosted a highly successful visit of best-selling
historian, Dr. Margaret MacMillan,
University of Oxford, (Paris 1919, among
other books). Dr. MacMillan's talk was
"The Uses and Abuses of History."
On October 25, 2010, the Prentice Insti-tute
was the host unit for the visit of Su-preme
Court Justice Madame Rosalie
Abella, sponsored by the Royal Society of
Canada, Governor General's Lecture Se-ries.
Madame Justice Abella's lecture was
entitled "Culture and Justice: A Love
Story."
Research Affiliate Feature
Dr. Reginald Bibby, Professor
Department of Sociology, University of
Lethbridge
Madame Justice Rosalie Abella,
Supreme Court Justice
Royal Society of Canada Governor
Generals Lecture Series
Dr. Trevor Harrison, Professor,
Sociology, became the 2010 Ful-bright
Visiting Research Chair in
Canadian Studies at Kennesaw
State University, Atlanta, Georgia
as a recipient of a Fulbright Schol-arship.
Dr. Harrison’s aim was to
bring a Canadian perspective to
the relationship between Canada
and the United States since 9/11.
Accolades
Conferences
Visit to Prentice Institute by Members of Parliament (July 27, 2010) —
LtoR—Hon. LaVar Payne, Dr. Lesley Brown (Assoc. VP, Research), Hon.Ted Menzies,
Dr. Dan Weeks (VP, Research) (back row), Dr. Alex Darku (Assoc. Director, PI), Dr.
Susan McDaniel, (Director, PI) Hon. Rick Casson, Ali Fakih (Research Analyst)
International Childhoods Conference:
Mapping the Landscape of Childhood
http://uleth.ca/prenticeinstitute/events
University of Lethbridge
May 5—7, 2011
Two days of multidisciplinary scholarly
panels on conference themes
Three separate keynote events
A film night
One day of poster & practitioner sessions
For additional information check the website:
https://www.uleth.ca/conreg/childhoods/
21st Warren E. Kalbach
Population Conference
See poster to right for details or check link:
http://www.uofaweb.ualberta/prl/
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Prentice Post (Spring 2012)
No full textHighlights the Prentice Institute's activities, initiatives and research affiliations.Director’s Note
Inside this issue:
Spring 2012
Volume 2, Issue 1
The Prentice Institute excels at research-ing
the changing human population and its
potential impacts on social and economic
issues, and communicating 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
New PI Research Affiliates 1 & 2
Prentice Institute Staff 2
Research Affiliate Feature —
Dr. Pamela Winsor
3
Prentice Institute Outreach — Café
Conversations
3
Accolades 4 & 5
Prentice Brownbag Seminars —
Spring 2012
5
Visiting Scholars—Dr. Constantine
Passaris
5
Mission Statement
1
Prentice Post
Dr. Pamela Winsor is
Professor, Faculty of
Education, at the
University of
Lethbridge.
Her research interests include
beginning readers and writers, the
difficulties they encounter, and the
instructional support they need for
success.
She was invited to join the Research
Affiliates at the University of
Lethbridge in December 2011. See
pg. 3 for our feature on Dr. Winsor.
Dr. Haan is Tier 2
Canada Research
Chair in Population
and Social Policy
and an Associate
Professor in the
Departments of
Economics and
Sociology at the
University of New Brunswick and Na-tional
Prentice Research Affiliate.
He received his PhD from the Univer-sity
of Toronto in 2005. Dr. Haan’s
research interests include housing,
immigration, mobility, migration, and
population decline.
New Prentice Research Af filiates
The Prentice Institute continues to gain momentum and recognition
both nationally and internationally. The Director, Susan McDaniel,
and both Associate Directors, Alexander Darku and Trevor Harri-son,
and our Research Affiliates have been very active in research:
publishing books, articles and research reports, obtaining new
research grants, as well as doing public outreach in the community,
across Canada and in various parts of the world. We have also
been active in bringing our new research findings into classrooms,
lecture halls and seminar rooms at the University of Lethbridge as
well as in guest lectures at other universities. And we have been very successful in
developing partnerships with various agencies locally, nationally and internationally.
Details on our activities and events can be found on our regularly evolving website:
www.uleth.ca/prenticeinstitute.
We are also happy to welcome our Ph.D. student, Peter Kellett, and our Masters
students, Celeste Barnes and Tanya Byrne.
We look forward in Fall 2012 to welcome a new Masters student, Heather
McIntosh-Rivera. We are very pleased that the Prentice Institute Distinguished
Visitor this fall will be Doug Saunders, author of the award-winning book, Arrival
Cities, and international affairs columnist for The Globe and Mail.
New Prentice Research Af fi liates (continued)
Prentice Post Spring 2012 , Volume 2, Issue 1
Dr. Constantine E.
Passaris, is
Professor of
Economics at the
University of New
Brunswick, Chair of
the New Brunswick
Advisory Board on
Population and a
Member of the
Academic Scientific Board for the Inter-national
Institute of Advanced Economic
and Social Studies( Italy).
He is a National Research Affiliate with
the Prentice Institute.
His research interests include
Population economics, immigration,
multiculturalism, globalization, economic
governance, and public policy.
Prent ice Inst i tute Staf f
Dr. Tom Noseworthy
joins the Prentice
Institute as a
National Research
Affiliate.
Noseworthy was
recently named
Associate Chief
Medical Officer,
Strategic Clinical Networks and Clinical
Care Pathways, Alberta Health Ser-vices.
He is also Director, Centre for
Health and Policy Studies, Professor
(Health Policy and Management) and
Head, Department of Community
Health Sciences, University of Calgary.
In 2007, he was named by the Gover-nor
General as a Member of the Order
of Canada for his contributions to
medicine and health care policy.
Dr. Frank Trovato is
Professor of Sociology,
University of Alberta,
Editor-in-Chief of Canadian
Studies in Population, the
official journal of the
Canadian Population Society,
and a past Director of the
Population Research Laboratory in the
Department of Sociology at the University of
Alberta, as well as a National Prentice
Research Affiliate.
His research intersects the disciplines of
demography, sociology and social
epidemiology; sex and marital status
variations in cause-specific mortality and life
expectancy; youth suicide and other life-threatening
behaviours; the social
demography of racial, immigrant and ethnic
populations; fertility & nuptiality trends and
internal migration in Canada.
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Dr. Adebiye Germain Boco joined the Prentice
Institute in January 2012 as a Research Analyst.
He received his Ph.D. from the Université de
Montréal in 2011. His Ph.D. was a comparative
study of individual and community level effects
on child mortality in sub-Saharan African coun-tries.
He is working closely with Dr. McDaniel on her
CRC research program, doing data analysis,
providing analytic methods for research projects, developing interna-tional
comparative data analysis, and, in future, possibly offering
training opportunities for Prentice researchers in longitudinal and
comparative research methods.
Dr. Nico Stehr is Karl Mannheim Professor of Cultural Studies at the Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen,
Germany and Director of the European Center for Sustainability Research. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of
Canada, and an International Research Affiliate at the Prentice.
His research interests center on the transformation of modern societies into knowledge societies and associated
developments in environment, science, politics, governance, the economy, inequality and globalization as well as
the societal consequences of climate change. He has published more than 40 books and many refereed articles.
Dr. Sara Zella has a two-year appointment as a Post-
Doctoral Fellow in the Prentice Institute, where she
will be working on post-doctoral
research, as well as collaboratively with ongoing re-search
programs led by Dr. McDaniel at the Prentice.
She received her Ph.D. from the University of Trento
(Italy) in March 2011. Her thesis was a longitudinal
study of the evolution of Italian women's career trajec-tories
and the effect of family life events (marriage and children) on their
careers.
Pamela Winsor is a professor in the
Faculty of Education where she teaches
undergraduate and graduate courses in
language and literacy development. She
is currently on study leave during which
she is pursuing her interests in
multicultural literature for children and
young adults as well as continuing her
involvement with international teacher
education. As a volunteer consultant and
advisor to CODE (formerly Canadian
Organization for Development through
Education), she is engaged in designing,
preparing resource materials for, and
delivering teacher education programs
focused on early literacy teaching in
multilingual classrooms. This month, in
Ghana, she will work with teacher leaders
to help them prepare for data collection to
ascertain indications of children’s reading
skills prior to implementation of the next
phase of Reading Ghana. Her earlier re-search
and inquiries have focused on the
place of phonemic awareness in beginning
readers’ success and on the potential of
Language Experience Approach as
pedagogy for English Language Learners,
all of which informs her current work. Her
work has been supported by the Faculty of
Education, the University of Lethbridge
Research Development Fund, the Alberta
Advisory Council for Educational Studies
(AACES), and the International Reading
Association.
In the coming academic year, she will work
collaboratively with curriculum librarian,
Elizabeth Cormier, to develop a teacher
resource entitled, Exploring the World:
Seven Continents in One Global
Micro-Library. The micro-library will
facilitate children experiencing the
world—its cultures and children--through
fine quality literature.
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Spring 2012 , Volume 2, Issue 1 Prentice Post
Research Af filiate Feature— Dr. Pamela Winsor
I Prentice Insti tute Outreach —Café Conversations
On Tuesday, April 24, 2012 the Prentice Institute presented its first Café Conversations at the Mocha Cabana Restau-rant
in Lethbridge. More community events are being planned.
Three Prentice Research Affiliates, Dr. Raphael Lencucha, Dr. Jean Harrowing and Sharon Yanicki, all from the Faculty
of Health Sciences, formed the panel. Their topic was “Global Health and the Quest for Justice”, and dealt with the
challenge to current ideas of growing social and health inequities. The moderator for the evening was Dr. Susan
McDaniel, Prentice Institute Director.
About 40 people attended the presentation at the Mocha Cabana. We received a lot of positive feedback.
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Mocha Cabana Interior Sharon Yanicki, Jean
Harrowing, and Raphael
Lencucha (Presenters)
Susan McDaniel (Moderator)
Congratulations to Dr. Abdie Kazemipur, Professor of
Sociology, at the University of Lethbridge, who will hold the
Jarislowsky Chair in Culture Change in Rapidly Developing
Modern Societies, at Memorial University, from July 2012. Dr.
Kazemipur will remain a Prentice Research Affiliate, and work
to link the Prentice with the sister institute he will be
developing at Memorial University.
Congratulations to Dr. Seong-gee Um, who successfully
completed all requirements for her Ph.D at the University of
Toronto. Dr. Um is a postdoctoral fellow at the Prentice
Institute. Her research focusses on social & demographic
changes in East Asian countries; care policy & practice for the
elderly, migration of women and low skilled labour; inequality,
exclusion and marginalization; and qualitative research meth-ods.
Congratulations to Dr. Wei Xu, Associate Professor,
Geography and Prentice Research Affiliate, and Dr. Karl
Staenz, Professor of Geography, who successfully secured
885,000 for two years.
Canada Research Chair
2011– 2018 Susan McDaniel (Sociology/Prentice Institute
for Global Population and Economy), Canada Research Chair
in Global Population & Life Course, Tier 1
Canada- US Fulbright Program
2010 Trevor Harrison (Sociology/Prentice Institute)
Canadian Committee on Women's History: Hilda Neatby Prize
2011 Heidi MacDonald (History)
Canadian Institute of Health Research
2010 Jean Harrowing (Health Sciences) (with D. Gregory) -
meetings, planning and dissemination grant
SSHRC Aid to Canadian Research Workshops & Conferences
Grant
2011 Heidi MacDonald (History) (co-applicant)
2011 Janice Newberry (Anthropology)
Accolades
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SSHRC Partnership Development Grant
2010 Richard Mueller (Economics) (co-applicant)
SSHRC Partnership Grants Collaborators
2012 Glenda Bonifacio (Women & Gender Studies)
2012 Richard Mueller (Economics)
SSRHC Partnership Grant (LO1)
2011 & 2012 Henning Bjornlund (Economics) (co-applicant)
2012 Ivan Townshend (Geography) (co-applicant)
2012 Wei Xu (Geography) (co-applicant)
SSHRC Public Outreach Dissemination Grant
2011 James Byrne (Geography)
2011 James Graham (New Media) (co-applicant)
2011 Susan McDaniel (Sociology/Prentice Institute) (co-applicant)
SSHRC Standard Research Grant
2012 Abdie Kazemipur (Sociology)
2010 Abdie Kazemipur (Sociology)
2010 Susan McDaniel (Sociology/Prentice Institute)
University of South Australia, School of Commerce Grant
2011 Henning Bjornlund (Economics)
RESEARCH GRANTS: INTERNAL 2010-2011 (PI Research Affiliates)
Centre for the Advancement of Excellence in Teaching and Learning
(CAETL) Teaching Development Fund Awards
2011 Peter Kellett (Ph.D. candidate)
Prentice Institute for Global Population and Economy Seed Grants
2011 Glenda Bonifacio (Women and Gender Studies)
2011 Bonnie Lee (Health Sciences)
U. of L. Community of Research Excellence Development Opportunities
(CREDO) Grant
2010 Janice Newberry (Anthropology)
2010 Wei Xu (Geography)
University of Lethbridge Internal SSHRC Grant
2011 Raphael Lencucha (Health Sciences)
University of Lethbridge Research Fund (ULRF) Grant
2010 Trevor Harrison (Sociology)
2010 Peter McCormick (Political Science)
2010 Susan McDaniel (Sociology/Prentice Institute)
2010 Wei Xu (Geography)
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Prentice Brownbag Seminars —Spring 2012
Spring 2012 , Volume 2, Issue 1 Prentice Post
Accolades—continued
The Prentice Institute held 5 Brownbag presentations in Spring 2012,
beginning January 2012, with “Perfect Storms: Science, Politics and Food
Security.” Dr. William Ramp*, Sociology, and Dr. Jim Byrne*, Geography,
who were joined by Dr. Andrea Cuellar, Anthropology, and Dr. James
Thomas, Biological Sciences. Dr. Trevor Harrison*, Professor, Sociology
(Associate Director, Prentice Institute) moderated the session. All
presentations can be viewed on the Prentice Institute website: http://
www.uleth.ca/prenticeinstitute/events.
Brownbag #2 was held Thursday, February 16, 2012 with Dr. Glenda
Bonifacio*, Women & Gender Studies. Dr. Bonifacio’s topic was
“Feminism and the Global Economy: Nodal Points for Convergence &
Disjuncture”. This session was moderated by Dr. Heidi MacDonald*,
History.
Brownbag #3, “Freedom 55? Promise and Hype of Aging” was held Friday,
March 23, 2012 with a panel of three, Dr. Ivan Townshend*, and Dr.
Susan McDaniel*, Sociology & Director, Prentice Institute, and one faculty
member, Dr. Jennifer Copeland, Kinesiology. The panel was moderated by
Dr. John Usher*, Management.
Brownbag #4, “Why Do So Many Immigrants and Their Children Attend
University? Some More Evidence for Canada”, was presented by Dr.
Richard Mueller*, Economics. Dr. Ivan Townshend*, Geography was the
moderator.
Brownbag #5, “The Crescent and the Maple Leaf: Muslims in Canada”
was held Friday, April 13, 2012 featured Dr. Abdie Kazemipur*, Sociology,
and was moderated by Dr. Wei Xu*, Geography.
These presentations were well attended, and are planned for each
semester, with different topics of global concern.
* Prentice Research Affiliate
Dr. Constantine Passaris, one of
our National Research Affiliates
(see page 2), spent a week at the
Prentice Institute in November
2011. On November 2, he
presented a Prentice Brownbag
Session entitled “Canadian
Multiculturalism and the New
Economy of the 21st Century”.
Dr. Passaris was a guest lecturer in Economics, to Dr.
Alexander Darku’s class, (Associate Director of the PI).
He met with interested faculty and students on
campus, and attended a reception held to introduce
him to the Prentice Staff and Research Affiliates.
This experience was very successful, and there was an
excellent response to Dr. Passaris, and for his
research.
2012 Interdisciplinary Research Development Fund Recipients have been announced (April 2012) The following proposals
were received, and the underlined names are Prentice Research Affiliates:
Leanne Elias (PI, New Media), Janice Rahn (Education), John Usher (Management), Michael Campbell (Art) & Cheryl Meheden
(Management) - The e-Book of New Media Methods and Practice.
Carol Williams (PI, Women & Gender Studies), Glenda Bonifacio, (Women & Gender Studies), Patrick Wilson (Anthropology),
Bonnie Lee (Health Sciences), Linda Many Guns (Native American Studies) - Creative Appropriations: Identities, Communities,
and Development in Cross Cultural and Interdisciplinary Perspectives.
Dr. Germain Boco, Prentice Institute Research Analyst, has been named recipient of the best Ph.D thesis in demography 2011-
12, at the Université de Montréal. This award aims to encourage and reward the postgraduate researcher's exceptional
achievement in the PhD thesis. The ceremony for the award will be held during the Dean's Award Celebration "Célébrer les arts
et les sciences" on Tuesday, October 16th, 2012 at Montreal. As well, Dr. Boco was on the 2011-12 Dean's Honour List. A
minimum CGPA of 4.0 must be attained, as well as the thesis being rated "Excellent", and the student in the top of 10% of the
faculty’s graduating class.
Visiting Scholars
To be added or removed f rom the PI
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Prentice Post (Winter 2015)
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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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For more videos from the Prentice Institute
go to the website
or Prentice Institute on YouTube
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.
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Prentice Post (Spring 2014)
No full textHighlights the Prentice Institute's activities, initiatives and research affiliations.Inside this issue:
Spring 2014
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
Our New Postdoctoral Fellow 1
Five Year Celebration 2
Prentice Institute Outreach 3
Prentice Institute Ph.D. Student 4
Prentice Institute Research
Assistant
4
In the News 5
In the News...continues 6
Brown Bag Seminars 7
Prentice Institute Spotlight 8
Mission Statement
1
Di rec tor’ s Note
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Our New Postdoctoral Fellow
The highlight of 2014 was the 5-year celebration of
the Prentice Institute for Global Population and
Economy. We hosted a delightful celebratory party in
April, just as the spring academic term was ending.
Photos of the event are included in this issue. We also
produced a 5-year report, which if you have not seen,
is available on our website: www.uleth.ca/
prenticeinstitute/news/prentice-institute-five-year-report
It has been a busy five years indeed, and we are only
beginning. With the many successes we have had and
the recognition locally, regionally, nationally and
internationally we have received, we anticipate a very bright future for the Prentice
Institute.
The awarding of scholarship funds by the Society of Edmonton Demographers to
the Prentice Institute for graduate studies in Population and Demography is a
welcome indication of our growing prominence in Population Studies. We were
honoured that Peter Kellett, a Prentice Institute Ph.D. student was officially
awarded the first SED Scholarship in March in Edmonton at the 22nd Kalbach
Conference.
A second banner event of spring 2014 were the successful defenses of two of our
Masters students, Celeste Barnes and Tanya Byrne. Celeste is continuing her
studies, working toward a Ph.D., while Tanya is employed in Calgary.
As usual for active researchers in global population, we present our research and
work with collaborators across Canada and the world. Our travels in 2014 have
taken us to China, Hong Kong, Japan, the United States, Cuba, Mexico, Greece,
Turkey, Iran, and various countries in Africa.
Ye (Oscar) Liu joined the
Prentice Institute for Global
Population and Economy and the
Department of Geography,
University of Lethbridge, as a
Post-doctoral fellow in
November 2013.
He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc.
in China and in 2013, his Ph.D. in
Geography and Resource
Management at the Chinese
University of Hong Kong. His
research interests include migration, urban labour market and spatial
analysis and modelling. He is currently working on wage inequality and wage
determinants in China by using China 2005 Population Sample Survey Data.
Welcome Oscar!
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Five Year Celebrat ion
For five years The Prentice Institute for Global Population and Economy has
been conducting, integrating and stimulating research. Our reach is global with
our nine international Research Affiliates and our 25 University of Lethbridge
Affiliates providing relevant, world-class research. Under the leadership of our
Director, Professor Susan McDaniel,
The Prentice Institute addresses the many
challenges faced in both the Canadian and
global population. The research of the
numerous disciplines represented by the
Institute reaches deeply into the long-term
consequences of our human story, how we
interact in our societies, in our economies,
and in our environments.
These five years have seen much collaboration, many millions in research funding and many of our researchers acknowledged
by their peers as leaders in their various disciplines. Dozens of books, hundreds of research articles and book chapters, dozens
of research reports and projects, and hundreds of conference presentations are all evidence of the success of our various
research teams. Along with active academic research and publication, many of our
Affiliates are engaged in flourishing programs of graduate education. Mentoring the
next generation of Masters and Ph.D.’s is another layer of passing knowledge on. It
doesn’t stop at the door of academia: our Research Affiliates are actively involved
in public outreach and education.
The Prentice Institute has, in the
past five years, been the host of
a lecture series which attract
students, faculty, staff and
members of the community to the
wide variety of subjects. We have been fortunate to come together with a
number of community partners and our interaction with them has been one
of our many highlights. Many of our Affiliates are called on to speak as
experts in their disciplines and can be found as active members of our
community in the news and public speaking forums.
We, at The Prentice Institute for Global Population and Economy, have
had an amazing five years. We live in a complex and global world and
we are excited to be in a position of knowledge and growth, ready to
help meet the challenges of both the present and the future. We look
forward to many more years of association with our Affiliates, the
University, and our community.
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www.uleth.ca/prenticeinstitute @PrenticInst The Prentice Institute
Prent ice Inst itute Outreach
In February 2014, at the O-Sho Family Restaurant, the Prentice
Institute for Global Population and Economy held its third Café
Conversation community outreach event. Two previous Café
Conversation events were on global health and on climate change/
challenges. The February panel shared findings from grant-sponsored
research looking into whether there are labour or skills shortages in
Canada now or in the near future. The event was attended by
university faculty and students as well as a number of people from the
community, including prominent business people.
The Labour/Skills Shortage Conundrum in Canada
Panelists included:
Heather McIntosh-Rivera, BMgt
Master of Arts Candidate
University of Lethbridge
Dr. Susan McDaniel, Ph.D.
FRSC, Canada Research Chair
in Global Population & Life
Course, Prentice Research Chair
in Global Population & Economy
& Professor of Sociology,
University of Lethbridge
Dr. Bonnie Watt-Malcolm, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Secondary Education
University of Alberta
moderated by Alexander Darku
U n i v e r s i t y o f L e t h b r i d g e s o c i o l o g i s t
D r . S u s a n A . McD a n i e l a p p o i n t e d
C h a i r o f CC A ’ s S c i e n t i f i c A d v i s o r y
C ommi t t e e
T h e C o u n c i l o f C a n a d i a n Ac a d e mi e s i s p l e a s e d t o
a n n o u n c e t h e a p p o i n tme n t o f S u s a n A. McD a n i e l , FR SC , a s
C h a i r o f t h e S c i e n t i f i c Ad v i s o r y C o mmi t t e e ( SAC ) f o r t h e
C o u n c i l o f C a n a d i a n Ac a d emi e s . T h e C o u n c i l wo u l d a l s o
l i k e t o e x t e n d a s i n c e r e t h a n k s t o T o m B r z u s t o ws k i , FR SC ,
FC AE , f o r t h e f u l f i l lme n t o f h i s r o l e a s C h a i r s i n c e 2 0 1 0 .
D r . McD a n i e l p r e v i o u s l y s e r v e d a s V i c e C h a i r o f SAC.
Congratulations to
Dr. Susan McDaniel
one of Alberta’s 50 most influential people
2014
“...when Alberta’s 50 Most Influential
People wield their influence, things happen.
They shape our province’s destiny.”
The list of Alberta’s 50 Most Influential
People is published in the July issue of
Alberta Venture.
albertaventure.com/rankings
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Prent ice Inst itute Ph.D. Student
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“The issue of men’s depression is relatively
hidden, but in another way it’s completely in our
face,” says Kellett. “Men don’t want to talk about
being depressed, but we see and feel the results of
it. When left undiagnosed and untreated, men’s
depression has a huge impact on the overall health
of society. We need to be able to identify men’s
depression and understand all the social contexts
that are tied to it.”
Peter presented his research at the “Aging Across Borders: A Transnational Look at Just Social Policies of Care”
Symposium held in late January 2014 at the University of Southern California.
~
Peter was awarded the Society of Edmonton Demographers Graduate Student Scholarship. He is the first recipient of
this award so it is a particular honour. Peter’s name will go down in history as he sets precedent for those that follow.
The scholarship was presented to Peter at this years Warren Kalbach Conferenced in Edmonton held in March where he
presented a research paper. Congratulations again, Peter.
Rebecca Deutsch, awarded the competitive Chinook Summer Research Award, began
working at the Prentice Institute in May 2014 for the summer as a research assistant.
Rebecca is currently majoring in Sociology at the University of Lethbridge. Over the past
semester her interests have been increasingly drawn to the way that ideas about bodies are
involved in the conceptualization of individuality and individual rights. Her curiosity lies
in whether or not different approaches to bodies based on gender or race contribute to
increased or decreased levels of violence. She has been exploring the work of Foucault,
Durkheim and Butler. At the Prentice Institute Rebecca is involved in the big Gender
Migration and the Work of Care project, looking at available literature on supply and
demand, income inequality, and various other aspects of care work.
Welcome Rebecca.
Peter Kellett
wants to
change the way
we think about
depression.
www.uleth.ca/prenticeinstitute/news/
shedding-new-light-dark-subject
You can find the full article here:
Photo by Rob Olson in UofL SAM Volume 5, Issue 2, Spring 2014
Prent ice Inst itute Research Assistant
Spring 2014 Prentice Post
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Greece still has a long way to go. Trevor Harrison, Prentice Institute Associate Director, Lethbridge Herald, May 22, 2014.
As the country heads into elections, Greeks hoping worst of financial crisis is behind them.
You can find the Prentice Institute highlighted on the UofL New
Research website and landing page along with several other centres and
institutes considered among the best in Canada here:
www.uleth.ca/research/prentice-institute-global-population-and-economy
Susan A. McDaniel, Amber Gazso, and Seonggee Um. 2013. “Generationing Relations in Challenging Times: Americans
and Canadians in Mid-Life in the Great Recession,” Current Sociology 61(3):301-321.
THERE ARE ENOUGH EMPLOYEES IN THE WORKFORCE:
TRAINING THEM IS KEY
April 10, 2014
@Globe_Education
When it comes to the current debate on skills and
employment in Canada, however, it may be the
“unknown knowns” that are most important...
ASKING THE RIGHT QUESTIONS, SOLVING THE RIGHT
PROBLEMS. As we rethink our labour market policy we need to
improve the collection and analysis of data, and we must also engage
employers and educational institutions in an
analysis of skills. Tyler Meredith Policy Options,
April 9, 2014. www.irpp.org
"Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind." --- Marston Bates
Prentice Institute Research Affiliate, Bonnie Lee, Faculty of Health Sciences Associate Professor, developed a new model
for couples counselling, Congruence Couples Therapy. In March 2014, she hosted a national workshop at the University of
Lethbridge on this model for problem gamblers. It proved to be a big success.
Glenda Tibe Bonifacio, Prentice Institute Affiliate and University of Lethbridge Women and Gender Studies professor
officially launched her new book Pinay on the Prairies late January 2014 at a special event held at the U of L’s Penny
Building. “This book is, I would say, the first one to work on Filipino women, their migration pattern and experiences in a
more nuanced way outside of Montreal, Vancouver and Toronto,” states Bonifacio.
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ww w. p r e s s p r o g r e s s . c a “ A s t u d y h e a d e d b y t h e P r e n t i c e I n s t i t u t e r e s e a r c h e r D r . S u s a n McD a n i e l h a s
f o u n d t h a t t h e n u mb e r o f t em p o r a r y f o r e i g n wo r k e r s h a s i n c r e a s e d d r a m a ti c a l l y , f r o m 8 9 , 0 0 0 p e r y e a r
i n 2 0 0 0 to 2 1 3 , 0 0 0 i n 2 0 1 2 . A n d T FWs , a p p r o v e d t o wo r k i n C a n a d a b y t h e f e d e r a l g o v e r n m e n t , a r e
b e i n g u s e d p r im a r i l y i n l o we r p a y i n g j o b s , p a r t i c u l a r l y i n t h e h o s p i t a l i t y , a n d fo o d a n d b e v e r a g e
i n d u s t r i e s . "
T h i s wa s t h e b e g i n n i n g o f s e v e r a l r i c o c h e t a r t i c l e s , a b a n o n T FW’ s i n v a r i o u s c o mp a n i e s a c r o s s
C a n a d a a n d a n e w l o o k a t w h a t i s b e i n g r e f e r r e d t o a s C a n a d a ' s s l a v e ma r k e t .
Ottawa To Cut Size And Scope Of Temporary Foreign Worker Program CBC News | June 20, 2014
Few provinces track complaints by temporary foreign workers C B C N e ws
Thousands of temporary foreign workers hired at minimum wage shows program is 'off the rails': AFL
E d mo n t o n J o u r n a l
Temporary foreign worker program 'completely out of hand' C B C N e ws
Restaurant owners seek meeting with PM over foreign worker freeze C B C N ews etc.
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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
Congratulations to two of our Prentice Institute students
who successfully completed their Final Masters Thesis Defenses
Name of Candidate: Ms. Tanya Byrne April 14, 2014
Title of Thesis: Household Adaptive Capacity and Current Vulnerability to Future Climate Change in Rural
Nicaragua
Name of Candidate: Ms. Celeste Barnes April 17, 2014
Title of Thesis: Coastal Population Vulnerability to Sea Level Rise and Tropical Cyclone Intensification
Under Global Warming
Prentice Institute for Global Population and Economy Seed Grant recipients:
Prentice Institute Research Affiliate William Ramp as principal investigator and Trina Filan as co-investigator were awarded a
Prentice Seed Grant in March of 2014. The title of their project, Mapping Social and Organizational Networks within the
Lethbridge, Alberta Food System.
With the assistance of the seed grant, this project will essentially help community members engage in developing and
strengthening the local food system to identify points of commonality, collaborate in effective knowledge and skill sharing,
and identify resource needs and avenues for filling those needs.
Looking forward to the findings from this project in a future Prentice Brown Bag event.
~
Our former Prentice Seed Grant recipients include Prentice Institute Research Affiliates Glenda Bonifacio and Bonnie Lee.
Income Inequality and Infant Mortality: A Panel Analysis
of Canadian Provinces (1979-2009)
Adébiyi Germain Boco
Prentice Institute for Global Population & Economy
University of Lethbridge
To examine whether annual changes in
income inequality are associated with
annual changes in infant mortality rates
in the period 1979-2009 in Canadian
provinces.
Research objective Context
Most past studies, looking across countries, states/provinces, and metropolitan areas, has found positive and statistically significant associations
between income inequality and overall mortality (Lynch and Kaplan 1997). However, in recent years more robust statistical methods using larger
and richer data sources have generally pointed to little or no relationship between inequality and mortality (Mayer and Sarin 2005; Spencer 2004).
Ross et al. (2000) conducted a cross-sectional data analysis, using census data and vital statistics, to report that income inequality (median share of
income) in the state or province and metropolitan area is associated with mortality in the United States but not in Canada.
Evidence for a cross-sectional relationship between income and health is strong but is probably biased by substantial confounding (Gunasekara et al
2012). Longitudinal data with repeated income inequality and health measures on the same individuals can be analysed to control completely for
time-invariant confounding, giving a more accurate estimate of the impact of changes in income inequality on health (Gunasekara et al 2014).
Data
The panel data used that contains 10 Canadian provinces for
the years 1979-2009 were obtained from Statistics Canada’s
Canadian Socio-economic Information Management
(CANSIM) database (http://www.statcan.gc.ca/). The data
analyzed were extracted from:
(1): Statistics Canada. Table 102-0030 - Infant mortality, by sex and
birth weight, Canada, provinces and territories, annual, CANSIM
(database). (accessed: 2014-02-10).
(2): Statistics Canada. Table 202-0705 - Gini coefficients of market,
total and after-tax income, by economic family type, annual
(number), CANSIM (database). (accessed: 2014-02-10) .
(3): Statistics Canada. Table 202-0804 - Persons in low income, by
economic family type, annual, CANSIM (database). (accessed: 2014-
02-10).
Table 1. Definitions and sources of the
variables used in the analysis
Method of Estimation
Results
Figure 1. Over time trend of income inequality
(A) and infant mortality (B)
0 5
10 15
Infant mortality rate per 1,000 live births
1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010
Year
AB
BC
MB
NB
NL
NS
ON
PE
QC
SK
25 30 35 40
Houshold Adjusted Income Gini Coefficient
1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010
Year
AB
BC
MB
NB
NL
NS
ON
PE
QC
SK
(B): Infant mortality rate for ten
provinces: 1979-2009
(A): Income inequality for ten provinces
: 1979-2009
NOTE. AB: Alberta; BC: British Columbia; MB: Manitoba; NB: New Brunswick; NL: Newfoundland and
Labrador; NS: Nova Scotia; ON: Ontario; PE: Prince Edward Island; QC: Quebec; SK: Saskatchewan.
Table 2. Descriptive Statistics 1979-2009
Variable
Number of
observations Mean
Standard
deviation
Minimu
m
Maxi
mum
Dependent Variable
Infant mortality rate per
1,000 live births 310 6.9 2.2 1.5 13.2
Independent Variables
Year 310 1994 9.0 1979 2009
Adjusted household income
inequality (Gini coef. X100) 310 32.7 2.0 26.9 37.8
Percentage of persons in low
income 310 16.9 3.3 7.8 27.1
Sources: Statistics Canada CANSIM Table 102-0030; Table 202-0705 and Table 202-0804 (see Table 1).
Table 3. Fixed-Effects Regression Predicting Infant
Mortality Rate in Canada Provinces (1979–2009)
0 5
10 15
Infant mortality rate per 1,000 live births
25 30 35 40
Gini Coefficient x100 (Adjusted Household Income)
Infant mortality rate per 1,000 live births Fitted values
Summary of findings
and conclusion
References
Avendano, M. 2012. "Correlation or causation? Income inequality and infant mortality in fixed effects
models in the period 1960–2008 in 34 OECD countries." Social Science & Medicine 75:754-760.
Gunasekara, F.I., K. Richardson, K. Carter, and T. Blakely. 2014. "Fixed effects analysis of repeated measures
data." International Journal of Epidemiology 43:264-269.
Gunasekara, I.F., K.N. Carter, I. Liu, K. Richardson, and T. Blakely. 2012. "The relationship between income
and health using longitudinal data from New Zealand." Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health
66:e12.
Leigh, A. and C. Jencks. 2007. "Inequality and mortality: Long-run evidence from a panel of countries."
Journal of Health Economics 26:1-24.
Lynch, J.W. and G.A. Kaplan. 1997. "Understanding How Inequality in the Distribution of Income Affects
Health." Journal of Health Psychology 2:297-314.
Mayer, S.E. and A. Sarin. 2005. "Some mechanisms linking economic inequality and infant mortality." Social
Science & Medicine 60:439-455.
Ross, N.A., M.C. Wolfson, J.R. Dunn, J.-M. Berthelot, G.A. Kaplan, and J.W. Lynch. 2000. "Relation between
income inequality and mortality in Canada and in the United States: cross sectional assessment using
census data and vital statistics." BMJ 320:898-902.
Spencer, N. 2004. "The effect of income inequality and macro-level social policy on infant mortality and low
birthweight in developed countries – a preliminary systematic review." Child: Care, Health and Development
30:699-709.
Wooldridge, J.M. 2002. Advanced panel data methods. Econometric analysis of cross section and panel data.
Cambridge: MIT Press.
Acknowledgments
I am grateful to The Prentice Institute for Global Population & Economy at the University
of Lethbridge for providing support in printing, transporting, and posting this poster.
Contact information
Adébiyi Germain Boco
Prentice Institute for Global Population & Economy
University of Lethbridge
E-mail: [email protected]
Data and Method
Variable Definition Data sources
Infant
mortality
rate
Infant mortality corresponds to the death of a child
under one year of age (per thousand live births)
Statistics
Canada CANSIM
Table 102-0030
Provincial
income
inequality
(Gini
coefficient
of adjusted
household
income)
The Gini coefficient is a number between zero and one
that measures the relative degree of inequality in the
distribution of income. The coefficient would register
zero (minimum inequality) for a population in which
each family (or unattached individu
Prentice Post (Fall 2013)
No full textHighlights the Prentice Institute's activities, initiatives and research affiliations.Inside this issue:
Fall 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
Our New Postdoctoral Fellow 1
Prentice Institute New Affiliate 2
Prentice Institute Research
Affiliates Feature
2
Prentice Institute Says Goodbye 2
Prentice Institute Outreach 3
Prentice Institute Published 3
Spotlight 4
In the News 5
Prentice Brownbag Seminars 6
Prentice Pillar 7
In the Media 8
Mission Statement
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Di rec tor’ s Note
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Our New Postdoctoral Fellow
The Prentice Institute welcomes our New Postdoctoral Fellow in January 2014.
Dr. Jing Shen obtained her Ph.D. degree in Sociology
from University of Toronto in 2013. Her research
interests include: social inequality and stratification,
employment and labour markets, population studies,
urban sociology, and research methods. Her doctoral
dissertation addresses the formation and consequences
of labour market inequality in the context of China's
transitional economy. Her current work also includes
the formation and consequences of ethnic economies
and immigrants' residential concentration in Canada.
Dr. Shen will join the Prentice Institute for Global
Population and Economy as a Post-doctoral fellow in
January, 2014. During her two-year post-doctoral ten-ure,
Dr. Shen will be engaged in life course studies focusing on job search behav-iors
and late-stage career success in multiple societies, such as Canada, China, and
the United States. She will also work on various ongoing projects at the Prentice.
As is apparent from this issue of the Prentice Post, the Prentice
Institute is ever more active in realizing its mission and mandate. We
have expanded on all fronts:
Our research in both numbers of publications and grant support
(validation for the value and importance of our research) has
increased exponentially over the past year.
Our outreach to students, public audiences, the media, and policy
makers has accelerated.
We have grown the numbers of graduate students associated with the Prentice Institute
to seven, and regularly receive inquiries about graduate studies from all over the world.
We have been successful in recruiting a number of top post-doctoral fellows.
We have been active in building partnerships and connections with fellow institutes,
most recently with the newly created Centre for Population Dynamics at McGill
University.
We are building collaborations across the University of Lethbridge and Alberta, most
recently teaming with Agricultural Economics with a Brown Bag Series guest who
spoke about global food security. We are also pleased that a special Prentice Institute
issue of Canadian Studies in Population is in preparation, where some of our research
with be highlighted.
Last but hardly least, we have been honoured by a donation from the Society of Edmon-ton
demographers to support graduate students at the Prentice Institute in Population
Studies and Demography, a clear recognition of our contributions in population studies
in Alberta.
The Prentice Institute is becoming increasingly recognized across the world as a source of
cutting-edge research and information about global population and economy.
In early summer 2014, we will be celebrating five years of operation of the Prentice
Institute. Watch for our birthday celebration and a special publication with highlights of our
achievements over those five years.
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Dr. Abdie Kazemipur returns from the East Coast to the U of L and the Prentice Institute.
Abdie Kazemipur is Professor of sociology at University of Lethbridge. He conducts research in
two broad areas of immigrant integration in Canada and the socio-cultural trends in the Middle
East. Among the many awards he has received are numerous research grants from SSHRC, as
well as the Stephen Jarislowsky Research Chair at Memorial University. Abdie is the author of
six books, with his seventh - a UBC Press publication on the integration of Muslim
immigrants in Canada - expected to be out by early 2014. He is currently working on another
book manuscript on religious developments in Iran, Egypt, and Turkey, which has a signed
contract with Wilfrid-Laurier University Press.
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Associate Professor Shelley Clark, (Director - Centre on Population Dynamics, McGill
University) is a demographer whose research focuses on gender, health, and life course transitions in
sub-Saharan Africa. After receiving her Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1999, Dr. Clark served as
program associate at the Population Council in New York (1999-2002) and as an Assistant Professor
at the Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago (2002-2006). In the summer 2006, she
joined the Department of Sociology at McGill as an Associate Professor. Prof. Clark is the founding
Director of the Centre on Population Dynamics and also directs the CFI-funded Life History, Health,
and HIV/AIDS data laboratory.
Prent ice Inst itute New Research Af filiates
Professor Kevin McQuillan, (Sociology and Public Policy, University of Calgary), taught
at the University of Western Ontario from 1977-2007 in the Department of Sociology and served as
department head and Director of the Population Studies Centre. He moved to the University of Calga-ry
as Professor of Sociology and Dean of Social Sciences in 2007. Following the creation of a new
Faculty of Arts, he served as the first dean of the new Faculty.
His recent work focuses on the continuing influence of religion on population change including his
widely-cited article “When does religion influence fertility?”, Population and Development Review.
He is also exploring Canada’s changing demography and is currently looking at the impact of
population change on Canada’s labour market. His recent analysis, “All the Workers We Need:
Debunking the Myth of Canada’s Labour Shortage,” was published by the University of Calgary
School of Public Policy.
Prent ice Research Af filiates Feature
In December of 2013 we say farewell to one of our Postdoctoral Fellows, Dr. Sara
Zella. Sara has been an integral part of the Prentice Institute for the past two years
and we are going to miss her greatly. We wish her well in all her future endeavours.
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Prent ice Inst itute Dist inguished Lecture Series
Munir A. Sheikh, Ph.D. former Chief Statistician of Canada and Executive Fellow at
the School of Public Policy, University of Calgary, visits the Prentice Institute for Global Population and
Economy at the U of L.
Thursday 21, November 2013 7:00 PM PE 261
The Need for
Evidence in Public
Policy Development
Professor Reginald W. Bibby, Beyond the Gods & Back: Religions Demise and Rise and Why it Matters
Associate Professor Glenda Tibe Bonifacio, Gender, Religion and Migration: Pathways of Integration and
Pinay on the Prairies: Filipino Women and Transnational Identities
Professor Trevor W. Harrison - Editor, Against Orthodoxy: Studies in Nationalism
Prent ice Inst itute Published
Prentice Affiliate Funding Awards for 2013
Jean Harrowing, Co-Investigator SSHRC - Partnership Grant - headquartered at Simon Fraser University
“Art for Social Change: An integrated research program in teaching, evaluation and capacity building.”
Richard Mueller, SSHRC - Partnership - University of Victoria
“Borders in globalization: Cultures, governance, market and migration flows, history, security, sustainability.”
Cheryl Currie, Health Sciences CIHR 24,309
“Is the math sufficient? Aging workforce and the future labour market in Canada.”
Susan McDaniel, Co-Investigator SSHRC - Partnership Grant - headquartered at University of Toronto, 2,500 - Recipient Monique Sedgwick
“Mobile decision making support and undergraduate nursing students' clinical decision making at the point of care.”
Constantine E. Passaris received Onassis Foundation fellowship funding for the research project.
"A New Economic Governance Model for Greece in the European Union.”
University of Lethbridge: Chinook Summer Research Award
(undergraduate) Each award is valued at $5,625.
Recipient Department Faculty Supervisor
Michele Charest Health Sciences Bonnie Lee
Sierra Dakin Kuiper Anthropology Jan Newberry
Abdou Makalo Economics Alexander Darku
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U of L Water Main Breaks, extensive damage ensues.
“It was a river, to put it into perspective,” says John O’Keeffe, Executive Director of The University of Lethbridge’s Secu-rity
Department.
Fortunately the break happened in June; unfortunately the damage was
immeasurable. Crews scrambled to get the gushing water under control as it snaked
its way through hallways, into the library, down
flights of stairs into The Centre of the Arts and
University Hall.
Air circulation, flood lights, odd smells and lock
out inconvenienced all who worked in the library
including the Prentice Institute staff. All the
while, the roof was being repaired, the Giants of
Jupiter thundered their way upon our roof top and
work was often stopped for a break to find solace
in silence off campus. Now, it is well into October and there are only skeletons of
reminders of the disaster that once was.
Floods continue, Southern Alberta is Hit
Shortly after the main break at the UofL, Lethbridge and most of southern Alberta
suffered severe flooding from high rain falls and melting snow in the mountains.
Many homes were, in less than a few hours, completely destroyed by raging riv-ers.
High River, Gleichen, Calgary and many areas in the mountains were dam-aged
beyond repair while hundreds of families were left homeless. The news was
plastered daily on several media outlets with stories of both heroism and loss.
Various communities, several business and institutes stepped in to assist in what
ever way shape or form was most immediate. The UofL opened its doors, allow-ing
displaced families and individuals to live, temporarily, in student housing for
the summer months as they mourned their losses and began the daunting process
of rebuilding their homes, and their lives.
Changes to the Prentice Boardroom
The Prentice Institute boardroom has had a facelift. The boardroom is a hive of activity and
only recently we were able to add modern day technologies to our international activities.
We now, in the comfort of our own spaces, can join our cohorts around the world using
various social media software to connect and build instantaneously. The lure of foreign
countries still beckon, but we now have the power to dial in where ever our minds and
research teams take us.
Never underestimate the joy people derive from hearing something they already know.
-- Enrico Fermi (1901-1954)
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Susan McDaniel June 2013 on “Power Play”, CTV News Video
Network, with Don Martin
Highlights of the National Household Survey
www.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=954902
Susan McDaniel Vice-Chair of the Scientific Advisory Committee
Council of Canadian Academies releases
“Paradox Lost: Explaining Canada's Research Strength and In-novation
Weakness” October 2013
Prentice Affiliate Jim Byrne CBC radio interview with David
Gray. Professor and climate scientist Jim Byrne discusses the link
between recent natural disasters and climate change.
www.cbc.ca/video/news/audioplayer.html?clipid=2396287279
blogs.redding.com/dcraig/archives/2013/07/dr-james-byrne.html
Prentice Affiliate Kevin McQuillan on Calgary CBC Eyeopener podcast, July 9, 2013 on Alberta's population
growth.
www.cbc.ca/player/Radio/Local+Shows/Alberta/Calgary+Eyeopener/ID/2396110057/
Asian Studies Minor - Prentice Institute Director Susan McDaniel along with Prentice Institute Researcher Tre-vor
Harrison and affiliates Janice Newberry, Wei Xu, Bonnie Lee and Glenda Bonifacio join the team to develop
a new Asian Study Minor available at the University of Lethbridge.
www.uleth.ca/artsci/asian-studies
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
Special Note: Pleased to learn on 25 October 2013 in a special jointly
sponsored Prentice Institute Brown Bag with Economics & Agricultural
Studies that our guest speaker, Dr. William Kerr, knew John Prentice from
Agricultural Economics meetings. Dr. Kerr commended us at the Prentice
Institute on the excellent work we are doing.
“We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the
process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people,
can transform the world.”
― Howard Zinn
Hungary
Ontario
Ghana
Texas
British Columbia
Manitoba
Malawi
Uganda
Alberta
Quebec
Jamaica
Massachusetts
Kenya
South Africa
Australia
Taiwan
Japan
China
Germany
Singapore Malaysia
Saskatchewan
Minnesota Newfoundland
Nova Scotia
Prince Edward Island
Susan McDaniel
University of Lethbridge Affiliates
International Affiliates
San Francisco
Louisiana
Iceland
Florida
We, at the Prentice Institute have the pleasure of gathering information from all our affiliates, associates, partners and
colleagues. Where they have been, where they are going and what they plan to accomplish once they get there. It truly
amazes me, as I get one piece of the puzzle from one area and one from another, just how widespread the knowledge is as it
grows from single seed to fruition in any area at any given moment.
Singularly we sometimes miss seeing the enormity of the collective reach we have in the Prentice Institute. In our busy lives
we find it hard to recognize all the work that is being accomplished. We read the news and watch what is happening from
economics to environment to political change to foreign trade. What we see in our own exploration, will it be enough to
make changes in every day lives?
When the moments get tough, as we well know they do, as we watch academic jobs in Alberta dangle on frayed rope, how
do we know what we are doing is making significant difference? We have to remain hopeful in the knowledge all the hours
and time and effort that goes into all that is accomplished is making its way across oceans and continents.
Our part, here at the Prentice Institute, is to eagerly bring our connections along with research and knowledge to openly
speak, teach and spread the word like connecting the dots on a map. Bringing manageable, doable pieces together thrills me
as our future is an immediate, collaborative, successful progress. Comforting really.
Look at where we have been. There is a difference being made. And we all get to be a part of it. What a thrill!
Nancy Metz
Administrative Assistant
Prent ice Pillar
Argentina
Brazil
Philippines
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Brown Bag Seminars
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Prentice Post Fall 2013
We had a well rounded and informative array of Brown Bag lectures this Fall Semester and are already working
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 2013
Bring your lunch and enjoy an interesting talk.
*Friday 18 October 2013
Susan McDaniel
“Transnational Caring. More than demand and
demographic aging.”
Friday 25 October 2013
The Prentice Institute in collaboration with Economics and
Agricultural Studies presents William Kerr
"Food Security for 9 billion: Availability, Incomes
and Productivity"
Friday November 1, 2013
Brian Titley
“Called or Chosen? Recruitment to Catholic Religious
Sisterhoods in the U.S., 1945-1965”
~and~
Heidi McDonald
“Disappearing Identities: The
Impact of Falling Membership in Canadian Religious
Sisterhoods since the 1960’s”
*Friday 29 November 2013
Rick Mueller
“Earnings Differentials of Males and Females in Same-sex and
Different-sex Couples in Canada, 2006-2010”
* Podcast videos can be found on the website at www.uleth.ca/prenticeinstitut
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
2
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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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
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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
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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