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Featured News
2025 Killam Awards celebrate a tradition of scholarship
Celebrating the Killams’ vision, the awards honoured excellence across UCalgary’s disciplines
Observing the world through invisible graffiti
UCalgary student Amber Skye Beaulieu’s summer project sparks passion for research
Reframing the narrative around online learning
UCalgary research team makes the case for online teaching
Introducing new appointments in the Faculty of Arts
The Faculty of Arts welcomes new colleagues and celebrates promotions
Faculty of Arts Research Funding Success
Faculty researchers receive federal support through SSHRC, NSERC, Banting, Vanier and New Frontiers grants
Sociology graduate student Riann Lognon receives CSA Angus Reid Applied Sociology Award!
Riann Lognon, a dedicated graduate student in sociology, has been honored with the prestigious CSA Angus Reid Applied Sociology Award for her outstanding contributions to applied research and community engagement.
In the news
In the News Pallavi Banerjee writes in latest issue of Contexts Magazine
Can Trump backlash reinvigorate Canadian higher education?
In the News Dean Curran, Sociology, in The Conversation Canada
The warning signs are clear: We’re heading toward a digital crisis
In the News The Conversation
Dean Curran writes about warning signs of a digital crisis in The Conversation
In the News Program for Undergraduate Research Experience (PURE) 2025
Summer PURE research student Lily Berntzen showcases research on Parasocial Relationships in the Age of Instagram and TikTok Influencers
In the News Yvonne Zylan and colleague writing in The Conversation Canada
Civil servant exodus: How employees wrestle with whether to stay, speak up or go
In the News Pallavi Banerjeem (Sociology) and Fateme Ejaredar (PhD Student) writing in The Conversation
Iranian Canadians watch the Israel-U.S. war in Iran from afar
Featured publications
In the News Qualitative Sociology Review
Jay Cavanagh, Michael Adorjan and Rosemary Ricciardelli - experiences with ethics in the field researching youth and cyber-risk
In the News History of Education Quarterly
Scott McLean in History of Education Quarterly: From Missionary Zeal to Holiday Appeal: Summer School, Professionalization, and Teachers in Canada, 1915 – 1959
In the News Gender Work Organization, Wiley Online Library
Pallavi Banerjee and Carieta Thomas, “The Migrant Care Work Regime and the Making of the Constant-Care Worker Among Indian Immigrant Nurses.”
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