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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.

Read the full story: https://uwaterloo.ca/news/2021-canadas-most-powerful-women

Martin Cooke is PI of a new CIHR Operating Grant on emerging COVID-19 research gaps.

In June Sociology & Legal Studies instructors Sarah Turnbull and Phil Boyle were elected to two-year terms as Board Members of Canadian Law & Society Association, visit their website.

PhD studnet Emerson LaCroix recently had an article named Organizational Complexities of Experiential Education: Institutionalization and Logic Work in Higher Education published in the Journal of Experiential Education.