Engaged scholarship and community based participatory research (CBPR) approaches both entail a focus on improving collaborations and communications with others. Using such techniques are intended to help generate ideas and, in turn, enhance problem-solving capabilities. Ultimately, such efforts may be used not only towards enhancing innovation and creativity but also motivating and improving community development efforts. Recognizing that varied disciplines, including Sociology, often strive to improve social justice and citizen empowerment, on-going community development efforts may help to address these needs. Since innovation and creativity are continually needed to help perpetuate such efforts, all are encouraged and welcome to attend this presentation. 

Ken Coates

Canada Research Chair in Regional Innovation at the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Saskatchewan Campus In the Wake of UNDRIP: Canadian Indigenous Policy in Global Perspective

• Monday, November 14, 2016 4:00 p.m.
• Faculty Lounge (UC 1029G)

Everyone Welcome 

Sponsored by the Office of Aboriginal Initiatives, the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, and the Departments of Sociology and Political Science. 

Ken Coates

Canada Research Chair in Regional Innovation at the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Saskatchewan Campus In the Wake of UNDRIP: Canadian Indigenous Policy in Global Perspective

• Monday, November 14, 2016 4:00 p.m.
• Faculty Lounge (UC 1029G)

Everyone Welcome 

Sponsored by the Office of Aboriginal Initiatives, the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, and the Departments of Sociology and Political Science. 

 Author Yves Engler details how the vast sums Global Affairs Canada, Veterans Affairs and the Department of National Defence spend articulating a one-sided version of Canada's foreign policy. With the largest PR machine in the country, the Canadian Forces promotes its worldview through journals, war commemorations, think tanks, academic programs and hundreds of public relations officers.

Everyone Welcome

Sociology Speaker Series proudly presents our second Winter 2016 talk:

Speaker: Dr. Chris Sanders
Title: "(Like) Putting a Condom Over Blood Cells”: The Pharmaceuticalization of HIV Public Health Prevention
Synopsis: This talk brings a critical sociology perspective to the clinical practice of prescribing HIV Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to patients who are at high risk of viral infection. Using the case of a health clinic that serves underprivileged inner-city youth, we analyze the strategies that clinic personnel use to promote and prescribe PrEP as well as the strategies they use to distribute the drug and monitor medication adherence. We critically examine questions about provider practices, access to medication, constructions of risk, and the “pharmaceuticalization” of HIV prevention.
Date: Thursday, February 25
Time: 1PM-2:30PM
Location: AT 5035 (TBay) / OA 2005 (Orillia)

Department of Sociology

Winter 2015 Speaker Series

 Dr. Kyle Siler

Rotman School of Business, University of Toronto

Innovation and Risk in Peer Review

Monday, February 9^th

2:30 - 4:00 p.m.

Orillia Campus:  OA 3041

Thunder Bay Campus:  ATAC 5035

Everyone Welcome

Book Launch

Working Bodies: Chronic Illness in the Canadian Workplace. Edited by Sharon-Dale Stone, Valorie A. Crooks and Michelle Owen, McGill-Queens University Press, 2014

Afternoon Scholarly Presentations: A Tribute to Dr. Stone

1:00pm- 1:40pm Michelle Owen, University of Winnipeg

“Chronic Illness and the Canadian Knowledge Worker: The Role of the Body and Embodiment in Shaping the Production of Academic Work”

1:45pm-2:25pm Rebecca Casey, McMaster University 

“Aging with Long Term Physical Impairments: The Significance of Social Support”

2:30pm-3:10pm Vicki Kristman, Lakehead University 

“Supervisors’ Perspectives on Work Accommodation for Chronically Ill Employees”