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On February 10th 2022, Faculty member Dr. Teresa Scassa appeared before the House of Commons’ Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics (ETHI). The Committee is currently reviewing the collection and use of mobility data by the Public Health Agency of Canada to support the response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

As a former high-school science and math teacher, Janelle Fournier has witnessed firsthand the under-representation of female students in physics and biology and, more widely, in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics). After having worked with a person who identifies as non-binary, Fournier became increasingly aware of the struggles of marginalized groups. “This made me change,” s...

Canada has had several heated debates over energy and climate policies in recent years. The optimism and action that followed the 2015 Paris Conference quickly faced strong resistance at home and abroad. And despite our policy progress, Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions curve remains stubbornly flat. At the same time, there has been a pronounced shift in the public debate as awareness grows and cl...

VIRTUAL EXHIBITION IMAGES OF JUSTICE: Right to Housing

On July 22, 2021, Science and Policy Exchange, the Institute for Science, Society and Policy, the National Research Council and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) hosted a science diplomacy event to introduce early-career scientists to real global science-policy issues and to guide them through evidence-info...

The Human Rights Research and Education Centre (HRREC) is pleased to welcome Professor Julia Hernandez who will serve as Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Human Rights and Social Justice this Winter 2022.

We are pleased to welcome Postdoctoral Fellow Ghuna Bdiwi!

The program will offer postdoctoral researchers and students international expertise and better career prospects

The Center for Law, Technology and Society is delighted to announce that CLTS Faculty member Dr. Kelly Bronson has contributed to Cultivating Diversity, a report released by the Council of Canadian Academies to examine the existing and emerging risks to plant health in Canada and to offer insights into promising practices that may help to mitigate them.

During winter 2022, Tonatiuh Martínez, Ph.D. student in Political and Social Sciences at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), visited our Centre to learn about the development of public policies affecting the indigenous population and First Nations in Canada.