The Faculty of Arts is proud to share that Dr. Kate Ratliff has been named a Tier 1 SSHRC Canada Research Chair in Intergroup Attitudes.
Dr. Ratliff is an associate professor of psychology and the area head of social psychology.
Along with her CRC, Ratliff has received a grant from the Canada Foundation for Innovation’s John R. Evans Leaders Fund (CFI-JELF) to support her research infrastructure.
Congratulations to Dr. Ratliff!
About the CRC in Intergroup Attitudes
Negative attitudes between social groups can exacerbate disparities in health, education and criminal justice. Ratliff’s CRC in Intergroup Attitudes will contribute to an understanding of how intergroup attitudes form and are maintained over time at individual and regional levels.
“This research will cultivate critical knowledge about the causal influence of national and regional policies on intergroup attitudes at a time when intergroup contact in Canada is at an all-time high,” she says.
Ratliff will undertake multiple interrelated research projects. First, her team will create a flexible, responsive, public database for the study of Canadians’ public policy and intergroup attitudes. Her experiments will then establish the conditions under which policy changes impact intergroup attitudes and will test those conditions with respect to real-world policy change in Ontario and nationally.