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Policy Options Magazine Article by Sarah Wilkins-Laflamme.

Sarah Wilkins-Laflamme is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Legal Studies at the University of Waterloo. Her research interests include quantitative methods, sociology of religion, immigration and ethnicity, and political sociology.

Toward the elimination of Islamophobia in Canada:

March Break Open House (MBOH) 2017 took place on Saturday March 18.

Sociology and Legal Studies student volunteers joined by Dr. Rashmee Singh, Dr. Suzan Ilcan and Porcellino. 

Kate is the principal and sole investigator on this grant which is entitled: Tackling a Silent Epidemic: Traumatic Brain Injury and Regulatory Science. It is a three-year research grant from the Australian Research Council in the amount of 357,000 AUD.

Peter Carrington's SSHRC grant for 2016-2021 will support his research on criminal collaboration in Canada. Using data collected by Statistics Canada from the police, Professor Carrington is analyzing patterns of inter-connections among crimes committed in Canada by pairs or groups of offenders. His objective is to develop a conceptual framework for the social organization of crime that will subsume existing categories such as 'the gang' and 'organized crime'; and in doing so, to produce a map of collaborative criminal activity across Canada.

12 media interviews in one day and counting. Professor Janice Aurini is busy juggling media requests this week (and last) as back-to-school approaches. Parents, educators and journalists want to know what her research tells us about the school break phenomenon summer setback.

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Partnership Development Grant Program. $199,062.

Suzan is the co-investigator on this project entitled “A Socio-Cultural Mapping of Arab-Canadian Migration, Settlement, and Integration". It is a three-year project (2016-2019), with J. Habib (PI).

The Sociology program at the University of Waterloo is ranked among the top five sociology programs in the country and is among the top 100 Sociology programs in the world (QS World University Ranking 2015).

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Insight Grant Program. $199,139.

Suzan is the principal investigator on this research grant entitled "Humanitarian Aid, Citizenship Politics, and the Governance of Syrian Refugees in Turkey.” It is a four-year grant (2015-2019), with F. Baban and K. Rygiel.

Associate Professor Martin Cooke has received the Angus Reid Practitioners/Applied Sociology Award issued by the Canadian Sociology Association.

The award "has been created to recognize sociologists who undertake community action projects that bring social science knowledge, methods, and expertise to bear in addressing community-identified issues and concerns" and "celebrates a Sociologists’ contribution to sociological practice that has served as a model for working with a community, organization or public service."