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Social Science Researchers in the news

(Updated July 4, 2023)

Researchers in the Faculty of Social Science have expertise in a wide-variety of areas. Our faculty members and graduate students are featured in news stories and comment on current events.

Here is a recent representative sample:

Victoria Esses, Director of Network for Economic and Social Trends (NEST) and Co-Chair of Pathways to Prosperity Partnership, co-authored an article published in the Conversation:

• As Canada welcomes historic numbers of immigrants, how can communities be more welcoming?

Cody Groat, professor in History, spoke with many media outlets regarding the Vatican’s formal repudiation of the Doctrine of Discovery:

• Interview on A Little More Conversation with Ben O’Hara-Byrne
• Vatican Repudiates ‘Doctrine of Discovery,’ Used as Justification for Colonization (New York Times)
• Vatican formally rejects Doctrine of Discovery that allowed colonial-era seizure of Indigenous lands (The Globe and Mail)
• Vatican rejects Doctrine of Discovery, a move Indigenous people have long urged (Canadian Press) – also published by the Montreal Gazette and the Toronto Star

Tracey Adams, professor in Sociology, was quoted in a Globe and Mail article:

• In the operating room and the hospital boardroom, women surgeons aren’t treated equally

Focus on work from Victoria Esses and the Pathways to Prosperity Partnership:

• How welcoming are communities to immigrants? Researchers design a new tool to find out (Globe and Mail)
• Western-led partnership releases toolkits to help communities welcome immigrants (Western News)

Samantha Hancock, from the DAN Department of Management & Organizational Studies, co-authored an article published in Psychology of Women Quarterly:

• Non-native accents may have different employment impacts for women and men