The FRQSC has awarded Isabel Pike, Assistant Professor in McGill’s Department of Sociology , a research grant through their Research Support for New Academics competition.
The grant spans three years and will go towards Pike’s project “The Demographic Dividend and the Re-Economization of Population.”
Prof. Skyler Wang has been awarded a SSHRC Insight Development Grant for his research on the growing integration of AI into dating apps.
Congratulations to Christopher Dietzel (Concordia), Stefanie Duguay (Concordia), David Myles (INRS) and Prof. Wang on receiving funding for this project.
Former Sociology graduate student Chih-lan (Winnie) Yang, who defended in 2024, has been awarded the Arts Insight Dissertation Award for her dissertation “Marriage, Cohabitation, and Family among Sexual and Gender Minorities in Post-Marriage Equality Canada.” The award was officially conferred at the Arts Faculty Council Meeting on May 20.
In a large faculty like Arts this is a major accomplishment and speaks to the rigorous and high-quality work of our students.
Congratulations to Winnie!
SOCI 395: Sociology of Law was honoured to welcome Supreme Court Justice Andromache Karakatsanis as a guest lecturer this past Winter 2025 semester.
Justice Karakatsanis shared reflections on her career trajectory and spoke to the relationship between law and society.
Prof. Shelley Clark has co-authored an op-ed in the Washington Post on the sharp decline in traditional married families in rural America.
Read the article here: In rural America, more women are saying ‘I don’t’
Prof. Barry Eidlin has written an opinion piece for The Globe and Mail in response to Amazon's decision to close its Quebec operations.
Read the article here: Why the union hate, Amazon? What's really behind the closing of Quebec Operations.
We are thrilled to announce that Maria Lima, a fellow from our 2022-2023 cohort, has published a new research article under the supervision of Professor Neeru Gupta from the University of New Brunswick and James Ayles from the Government of New Brunswick, both valued partners of CAnD3. This exemplary partnership stemmed from a CAnD3 internship. CAnD3 takes pride in providing fellows with valuable internship opportunities, and we are pleased to witness the application of the skills acquired during our training program.
CAnD3 is pleased to share the latest visualization publication “Time Use on Housework in Canada: Persistence and Patterns” published by Kamila Kolpashnikova, Zilin Li, and Amélie Quesnel-Vallée, that presents daily time use on housework in Canada. The study enhances understanding of housework participation from a daily time-use perspective.
The fourth cohort fellows of the CAnD3 program contains a wide range of disciplines and backgrounds. Through our Fellows Features, we aim to showcase these interests and offer insight into their passion through creating inclusive spaces and capturing their unique experiences within the CAnD3 program.
We caught up with two of our Fellows, Aida and Regan, to ask about their experiences with the CAnD3 program thus far. Read on to learn about their research and what they hope to achieve during the remainder of the program and beyond.
There is much to look forward to heading into the second half of the 2023-24 CAnD3 training year. Our Fellows will start 2024 with a discussion of recent advances in digital demography and explore topics like adaptive policymaking, loneliness trajectories of older adults, and social media analysis in the next six months. They will also be producing their portfolios, Dragons' Den data visualizations, and policy briefs.
The first half of the 2023-24 training year has officially wrapped up. Over the past four months, our 22 CAnD3 Fellows have completed a total of 15 training sessions on topics ranging from research replicability and data ethics to discussions about the latest population analytics research and time management. We caught up with two of our Fellows, Megan and Bavisha, to ask about their experiences with the CAnD3 program thus far. Read on to learn about their research and what they hope to achieve during the remainder of the program and beyond.
The 2023-24 CAnD3 Fellow cohort is composed of 22 accomplished individuals competitively selected from our partner higher education institutions. The new cohort comes from diverse backgrounds, with eight in master’s programs, 13 in PhD programs, and one completing postdoctoral training. They bring a range of disciplinary training from political science and geography to gerontology and medicine.
The fourth year of the Population Analytics in an Aging Society Training Program held its kick-off on September 6th. The 22 accomplished Fellows who compose the 2023-24 cohort were competitively selected from CAnD3’s (Consortium on Analytics for Data-Driven Decision-Making) partner higher education institutions.
The purpose of the An Underrepresented, Undervalued Workforce: Understanding and Supporting Quality of Work Life in Long-term Care research project is to build evidence for the Atlantic Canadian long-term care sector to better understand, support and manage the Atlantic LTC workforce. The investigators want to understand how staff work changes their health and wellbeing and how they give residents the best quality of care.
As we enter March, recruitment is now in full swing at CAnD3. We invite interested students to join our recruitment informational session to hear directly about the program from Fellows and staff! You can also get to know more about the Fellows' experience by reading through their features!
