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Protecting infrastructure from the ‘freedom convoy’ could forever silence legitimate dissent

By Philip Boyle Associate Professor | Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies, Legal Studies

We are holding a virtual LSAT logic games workshop this week for students at top colleges in the eastern Canada and are inviting everyone at UWaterloo who might be interested in attending.

You are invited to a Logic Games Workshop presented by TestMasters, the leader in high‑end LSAT preparation.

When: February 9th, 2022 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM Eastern Time

Recent challenges on the use of School Resource Officers (SRO) brought to the forefront the absence of evidence on the effectiveness of police officers in schools and the negative impact on youth, especially for Black, Indigenous, racialized, and vulnerable youth. Our understanding is limited as prior research is largely culture and race absent.

In a new partnership with the Ontario Council on Articulation and Transfer (ONCAT), Dr. Aurini and her research team are investigating post-transfer experiences of university and college transfer students. This multi-year qualitative research study will capture university and college students' post-transfer experiences and how they may vary by pathway (e.g., vertical, lateral, reverse, and swirler) and region. This project incorporates a longitudinal design to capture student transfer as a multi-faceted social process.

Located in the heart of Waterloo Region, the University of Waterloo is at the forefront of innovation and home to world-class research and inspired teaching. The University is seeking exceptional scholars and researchers for up to six Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) opportunities, dependent on funding, across all six faculties (Arts, Engineering, Environment, Health, Mathematics, or Science).

Dr Schulenberg has co-authored (with Laura Huey and Jacek Koziarski) Policing Mental Health: Public Safety and Crime Prevention in Canada (Springer, 2022). Drawing on the results of two ethnographies on police practice, this book addresses the important question of why mental illness has become ‘police property’ and for decades the de facto response to a health and social problem.

On November 25, 2021, Professor Suzan Ilcan presented at Western University’s Centre for Research on Migration and Ethnic Relations as part of its Fall Colloquium Series. The talk, entitled ‘Syrian Experiences of Displacement and Precarious Living in Turkey,’ highlighted Syrians’ struggles and the ‘architecture of precarity’ shaping their lives.

Please join us for the Fall 2021 Joint University of Waterloo–St. Jerome’s University Legal Studies Seminar

On Monday the 22nd of November, 2021 at 1 p.m. EST,

DR. ARIADNA ESTÉVEZ will be speaking on the topic of 

'THE RULE OF LAW NECROPOWER’
 

The Department of Sociology and Legal Studies is bringing back the Fall and Wellness Scavenger Hunts for Thrive Month.

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