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Professor Guy-Vincent Jourdan approaches cybercrime defence from a "zero-victim" standpoint: he looks for ways to detect cyber-attacks as soon as they occur, and ideally before they can do any damage.

The Advanced Medical Research Centre (AMRC) will add major velocity to the uOttawa Faculty of Medicine's efforts to address the great scientific challenges of the 21st century.

Precision agriculture is so-called because people believe that farmers’ management decisions will be optimized and made more precise if they are informed by the results of self-learning algorithms which mine large volumes of data (or big data). It is now indisputably known that industrial, chemical-intensive farming contributes significant greenhouse gas emissions, agricultural chemicals have know...

Professor Tricia McGuire-Adams of the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Education has received $511,380 in funding from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI) to create a lab that will conduct innovative research on the knowledge and well-being of Indigenous peoples.

The Centre for Law, Technology and Society is delighted to announce that Co-Director (interim) and Faculty member Dr. Valerie Steeves has been awarded the Outstanding Achievement Award by the Surveillance Studies Network, a prize given to distinguished scholars who have made major contributions to the field of surveillance studies.

Venezuela has a growing academic diaspora throughout the world, as part of the massive emigration that the country has faced in recent years. According to estimates by sociologist Tomás Páez of the Venezuelan Diaspora Observatory, some 7.2 million Venezuelans have left the country since 2003. Of those millions of people, many are professors and students, some located in universities and research c...

Welcome to this first blog of the ISSP’s 2022-2023 academic year. In it, I give a preview of key research, teaching and outreach activities in the coming months. All of them speak to the ISSP’s five-year strategic vision: helping Canada transform decision-making to meet the grand challenges of our time by strengthening science-society-policy relations within and among the academic, public, private...

“If we understand how the acquisition of motor skills is regulated in the brain then perhaps one day we can help patients with stroke or Parkinson’s disease regain those skills during the rehabilitation process." - Dr. Simon Chen

As its 65th anniversary approaches, the Centre de recherche en civilisation canadienne-française (CRCCF), the oldest research centre studying the literature, culture and history of francophones in Canada, is changing its name to better reflect the work it’s carrying out today.

The Centre for Law, Technology and Society is delighted to announce that Faculty member Prof. Jennifer Chandler has been elected as a 2022 Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (CAHS), one of the highest honours for members of the Canadian health sciences community.