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A global thought leader looking at the role of surveillance in the Anthropocene, Dr. David Murakami Wood has been awarded a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Critical Surveillance and Security Studies.

Across the globe, climate change and the shift towards decarbonization are having an intense impact on Indigenous Peoples and vulnerable local communities. Frequently it is women and individuals with physical disabilities who bear the brunt of these effects. Indigenous leaders have coined this pattern as “green colonialism”.

On June 14, 2024, at the University of Ottawa, the Government of Canada announced $693.8 million in funding across four research programs. Funding for uOttawa includes support for three new or renewed Canada Research Chairs (CRCs) and 96 Discovery grant recipients, proof of our vibrant and expansive research environment.

Routledge just published “Decoding the Court: Legal Data Insights from the Supreme Court of Canada,” an innovative new collection co-edited by Wolfgang Alschner, Vanessa MacDonnell and Carissima Mathen. Featuring contributions from leading scholars, including Amy Salyzyn, it melds cutting-edge legal data analytics with profound doctrinal analysis to provide an unprecedented understanding of Canada...

Trained as an aerospace engineer, Professor Catherine Mavriplis has first-hand experience being one of few women in a male-dominated field. This fuelled her passion for equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI), leading to a dual-research career studying aerospace engineering as well as the systematic gaps that impede gender diversity in STEM and developing ways to address these gaps.

Dr. Melanie J. Sekeres, an Associate Professor in Psychology at the Faculty of Social Sciences, co-authored a significant paper titled "To Update or to Create? The Influence of Novelty and Prior Knowledge on Memory Networks". This paper is one of the 26 contributions to a themed issue in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B issue on ‘L...

In recognition her exceptional thought leadership in Canadian information law and policy, Dr. Teresa Scassa has been bestowed the inaugural PICCASO Canada Award for Privacy Leader in Academia / Thought Leader.

The Space Omics and Medical Atlas (SOMA) includes samples from space missions, providing insight into short and long-term health impacts of spaceflight

When someone is diagnosed with Parkinson’s, they’re confronted with numerous questions. Will I be less mobile? How will I cope with this new “normal”? The disease manifests in many different and changing ways, meaning there are as many answers as there are people with Parkinson’s.

Inclusion researcher Virginie Abat-Roy (PhD ’24) says ableism (the discrimination of those with disabilities) is a daily obstacle for people with assistance dogs. “It’s shocking to hear some of the judgemental things people say to those who live with handicaps," she explains.