Prentice Post Winter 2015

Prentice Post Winter 2015

INSIDE THIS EDITION: Prentice Affiliate Heidi MacDonald celebrates national honour Research Affiliate Glenda Bonifacio named one of the most influential Filipino woman in the world.

Prentice Institute Research Analyst Germain Boco celebrates citizenship Trevor Harrison and researchers from 12 universities receive $2.5 million Prentice Institute introduces Zehan Pan, Post Doctoral Fellow More inside...

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Prentice Post

Winter 2015

Director’s Note 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

Mission Statement 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.

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Winter 2015

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 ways.

Coyote Flats was selected as the 2015 award recipient for an oral history project that saw seniors share their life stories and 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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Winter 2015

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)

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.

Finding solutions to climate change challenges means we have to understand the possible impacts of climate change will be for Canadians and the world.

The Story Bridge from Bhutan to Lethbridge A participatory documentary screened November 19 , 2015 at the Galt Museum, Lethbridge Jeff Bingley affiliated with the Prentice Institute for Global Population and Economy and Centre for Community and Culture (CCC) 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.

Facebook Link Lethbridge home to the largest Bhutanese community in Canada

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This timely and innovative book delivers a comprehensive analysis of the non-recognition of the right to a family life New Publication 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 interdisciplinary 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 workers. Highlighting constructed, ideological and imagined responses to life away from home, it offers 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.

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.

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

CRDCN 2015 National Conference Research and Public Policy: Health, Economic and Social Perspectives

AdĂŠbiyi 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.

CPS Fall 2015 Newsletter

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.

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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.

Acknowledgments

Bonifacio named one of the most influential Filipina women in the world 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.

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 Humanities 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.

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.

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, advising on the collection and analysis of official data in Canada.

Economics for public policy Miles Corak, Pr ofessor of Economics, UOttawa and Pr entice Institute Resear ch Affiliate

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Winter 2015

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 For more videos from the Prentice Institute go to the website or Prentice Institute on YouTube

“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 FacilitiesCaretaking Department at the UofL has named our “duck” in the gumboots from the 2015 summer edition of the Post.

Canadas long form census to be reinstated for 2016 census!

Gullible “Geo” is his name.

A well traveled gull in boots.

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