iMPACTS director and James McGill Professor Shaheen Shariff will be sharing her thoughts on informed dialogues in academia as part of a presentation series by the McGill Association of University Teachers.
Every year, from November 25 (International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women) to December 10 (World Human Rights Day), Canadians observe the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence. It is an opportunity to come together to call out, speak up and renew our commitment to end gender-based violence. (Women and Gender Equality Canada)
iMPACTS director and James McGill Professor Dr. Shaheen Shariff has published her commissioned paper on Children and Technologies for McGill’s Max Bell School of Policy and the Centre for Media, Technology, and Democracy.
iMPACTS has partnered with social science researchers at Douglas College in Vancouver, BC to fund research on how COVID-19 affects students' social and psychological well-being.
The project, “Learning in Novel Times,” explores the social impacts of COVID-19 on students and how the pandemic has affected their emotional, social and psychological health.
Dr. Shaheen Shariff was interviewed by CBC News about a sexual extortion case involving a 25-year-old man and a 22-year-old woman in Manitoba.
Chloe Garcia, a PhD candidate in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education (DISE) and a research assistant on the IMPACTS Project, was interviewed by VICE about consent in the context of a new dating app called LegalFling.
Christopher Dietzel, a PhD student in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education and a research assistant on the IMPACTS Project, is presenting his doctoral research at the 2018 iDate Dating Industry Conference. This announcement was recently highlighted in WebWire, which you can access here.
Congratulations to Chloe Garcia on earning the Mentorship Excellence Graduate Award from the Department of Integrated Studies in Education (DISE).
The Quebec human rights commission has recently rendered a decision regarding misogyny in public. For more details take a look at the Montreal Gazette website.
http://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/quebec-human-rights-commissio...