Congratulations to Dr. Claudia Mitchell, a 2019 Prix du Quebec recipient! The Léon-Gérin Prize is being bestowed on Dr. Mitchell to honour her distinguished research career in the humanities and social sciences. Click here to read the full article in the McGill Reporter.

When asked by McGill Senate about student internships in light of Bill 21, Dean Dilson Rassier made it clear that the Faculty of Education is taking a proactive role in facilitating students' concerns. Read more about it in The McGill Daily: https://www.mcgilldaily.com/2019/09/buddles-rebuttal-on-strike/
The 7th McGill International Cellphilm Festival

Assistant Professor, Dr. Philip S. S. Howard, of the Department of Integrated Studies in Education (DISE) has been in the media spotlight this week, due to his ongoing research into Blackface in contemporary Canada.

Steve Jordan was presented with the ARNA 2019 Social Justice Award at the recent ARNA Conference, held at McGill's Faculty of Education, June 26 to 28, 2019.

W. Y. Alice Chan, PhD (DISE) publishes an article about how Bill 21 will impact religious bullying in school settings. Through her research, Chan has examined how learning about religious diversity can contribute to preventing hate and bullying in schools, and that banning religious symbols in the public sector is ill-advised. Read her full article in The Conversation by clicking here.

Christopher Dietzel, a PhD student in DISE and research assistant on the IMPACTS Project, has received a Mitacs Globalink Research Award. Chris will travel to Australia and work with Dr. Kath Albury, a professor at Swinburne University of Technology, to research violations of safety and consent that trans and gender non-binary people experience while using dating apps. For his doctorate, Chris is studying sexual violence in LGBTQ+ communities and sexual consent related to dating app use.

Nearly 60 Cree students their graduation from McGill University's Faculty of Education this past Saturday in Pikogan, Quebec. Our Office of First Nations and Inuit Education offers full-time and part-time teacher certification programs in Cree and Inuit communities in Quebec as well as in Kahnawake and Listuguj. Even though these students may be far away off campus, they are an important part of our Faculty and the McGill community. CBC's Susan Bell covered the story.

On May 24, 2019, Annie Savard was awarded by the title Professor Honoris Causa from UNIVERSITATEA OVIDIUS DIN CONSTANTA, in Romania. Annie Savard is associate professor at the Faculty of Education at McGill University.
The Faculty of Education is pleased to announce the winners of the competitions for Fellowships and Awards for the 2018-2019 year.
Ellen Edith Grubb Stansfield Award for School-based Classroom Research ($900)
Melissa Daoust/ KPE Masters
Statement on Bill 21, An Act respecting the laicity of the State (Loi sur la laïcité de l’État), from the Department of Integrated Studies in Education and the Internships and Student Affairs Office in the Faculty of Education at McGill University adopted on April 18, 2019

Congratulations to Katherine Boyadjian recipient of the
SPEAQ-TESL/BEALS prize for academic excellence and professionalism for 2019 graduates

On January 24, Dilson Rassier, Dean of the Faculty of Education, spoke at the United Nations’ headquarters in New York as part of the UN’s inaugural International Day of Education, telling delegates that knowledge is the key to a better world.

DISE's Dr. Aziz Choudry will take part in a panel discussion presented by the Northern Police Monitoring Project in Manchester, UK.
Activists, State Surveillance and Political Policing
The panel discussion will take place Friday March 8, 2019.
Dr. Choudry will also be attending the launch of his new book: Activists and the Surveillance State: Learning from Repression on March 11, 2019 at the University of Westminster.

A new publication edited by Aziz Choudry, Activists and the Surveillance State: Learning from Repression, is now available for purchase from Pluto Press.