Prentice Post (Spring 2013)

• Main Author: Prentice Institute
• Format: Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: University of Lethbridge 2013
• Subjects: Prentice Institute > Periodicals; Newsletters; Canada; Endeavour; Pillar; Mueller; McIntosh; Rivera; Currie; Moan; Ferrer; Gilmour; Kellett; Carroll; First Nations; Slave Lake
• Online Access: http://digitallibrary.uleth.ca/cdm/ref/collection/publications/id/23522

Highlights the Prentice Institute's activities, initiatives and research affiliations. Inside this issue: Spring 2013 The Prentice Institute does research on the changing human population and its potential impacts on social and economic issues, and communicates its findings widely. The Prentice Institute and its research collaborators seek to understand long-term changes in the human and economic environments, within a historical context, with particular attention to the role human actions play in influencing those out-comes. We conduct and integrate research on the dynamics of Canadian and global demog-raphy and their impacts on economic well-being through migration, culture, trade and natural resource availability. We communicate widely the output of our work and that of others to stimulate fur-ther research and to enable individuals, governments, and corporations to make better-informed decisions. We educate students and future researchers. Director’s Note 1 Accolades 1 Prentice Institute New Affiliate 2 Prentice Institute Research Affiliates 2 Prentice Institute Outreach 3 Spotlight 4 Prentice Institute Students 5 Prentice Brownbag Seminars 6 Prentice Pillar 6 Mission Statement 1 Di rec tor’ s Note Prentice Post Accolades S u s a n Mc D a n i e l , D i r e c t o r o f t h e P r e n t i c e I n s t i t u t e f o r G l o b a l P o p u l a t i o n a n d E c o n omy , C a n a d a R e s e a r c h C h a i r ( T i e r 1 ) i n G l o b a l P o p u l a t i o n a n d L i f e C o u r s e , P r e n t i c e R e s e a r c h C h a i r i n G l o b a l P o p u l a t i o n & E c o n omy a n d P r o f e s s o r o f S o c i o l o g y R e c e i v e s Q u e e n ’ s D i amo n d J u b i l e e Me d a l The Prentice Institute for Global Population & Economy is pleased to announce that our Director, Professor Susan McDaniel, FRSC, has been award-ed the prestigious Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal. In a ceremony held at the Universi-ty of Lethbridge on February 26, 2013, Dr. McDaniel was honoured to receive her award from Professor Yolande Grisé, President of The Royal Society of Canada, and the Society’s Executive Director, Darren Gilmour, as well as from the sen-ior administration at the University of Lethbridge, notably Andrew Hakin and Daniel Weeks. This is the first time ever that a President of the Royal Society has visited the Uni-versity of Lethbridge. Susan was nominated by the Royal Society which received large numbers of nominations, all of which were peered reviewed by Fellows of the Royal Soci-ety. This award is given in recognition for Susan’s outstanding contributions to Canada and the world through her research, publications and service to society, public policy and to the Royal Society of Canada, where she has selflessly given her time and talents. Spring 2013 sees the prestige and the reach of the Prentice Institute for Global Population and Economy growing locally, nationally, and internationally. This past year saw a number of new graduate students joining the institute, along with new Research Affiliates and the arrival of our new postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Willa Liu, from the University of Toronto. This past year also saw our highly popular Distinguished Lecture series draw increasing numbers from the community, students, faculty and staff. One of our distinguished guests was co-sponsored with us and two community groups. Our Brown Bag noontime lectures and panels have similarly become so popular that we have on several occasions far exceeded the capacity of our Board Room! Consistent with the Prentice Institute’s mandate and mission, we are reaching out to the world and achieving significant recognition. Recent and upcoming travels by those associated with the Prentice have included Australia, Taiwan, China, Germany, Greece, Japan and Korea, as well the United States and various places across Canada. Researchers associated with the Prentice Institute are regularly invit-ed to give talks on their research to groups across the world and Canada, and locally. We are invited to speak with university students, policy makers both public and corporate, and diverse other groups. We are, as well, consulted regularly by the media. All of this gives the Prentice Institute prominence and brings our research to public awareness and action. The gift of funds for graduate student scholarships in Demography and Population Studies by the Socie-ty of Edmonton Demographers is wonderful acknowledgement of the Prentice Institute and what we are working to accomplish. We remain optimistic that our new Ph.D. concentration in Population Studies and Health will be approved, despite the deep cuts to Post Secondary Education across Alberta announced in the recent provincial budget. We continue to keep our eyes focused on the prize: the building of the Prentice Institute’s capacity for research and public education. Prent ice Research Af filiates Feature Prentice Post Spring 2013 Richard E. Mueller is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Lethbridge and Associate Director of the Education Policy Research Initiative at the University of Ottawa. He recently completed a secondment in the Social Analysis Division at Statistics Canada in Ottawa. His research includes various labour market issues including Canada-US migration and the determinants of access to post-secondary education. His work has appeared in a number of economics and Canadian studies journals, and edited volumes. Recently he is co-editor of two volumes on post-secondary education published by McGill-Queen’s University Press. Rick has travelled extensively, is the proud father three sons and two precocious cats. See: directory.uleth.ca/users/richard.mueller 2 Prent ice Inst itute New Research Af filiate Olu Awosoga is a consulting statistician by profession with interest in the applica-tion of statistics in Education, Health and Social Sciences. He is currently an Assistant Professor in Health Sciences at the University of Lethbridge. He teaches Applied Statistics courses to students in Nursing, Public Health, and Addictions Counselling program at both undergraduate and graduate levels. He has worked with various faculty members on their projects in health sciences as a statistical consultant with advice on questionnaire design, quantitative research methods, setting up database and data analysis. His research interests include: Re-peated Measures Design, Longitudinal Studies, Categorical Data Analysis, Biostatistics, Parametric and Nonparametric methods, Time Series and Survival data analysis. He is a co-investigator in the following projects: Health Status of Childcare Work-ers in Southern Alberta; Moral Distress in the Care of Persons with Alzheimer Disease in Residential Care Facilities; Slave Lake Wildfire Study; CAETL Project to assess teaching effectiveness in undergraduate applied statistics course; Assessing Urban Aboriginal Housing and Homelessness in Canada; Effects of Hope on Risky Behaviours and Health Status of Adolescents; A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial of Congruence Couple Therapy for Pathological Gambling; and a host of other studies still at the planning stage. See: directory.uleth.ca/users/olu.awosoga Miles Corak, the Prentice Institute’s newest Canadian Research Affiliate is a Professor at the University of Ottawa in labour economics. Dr. Corak is working on child rights, poverty, immigration, social and economic mobility, unemployment, and social policy. Much of his research involves comparisons across countries and is detailed in numerous articles as well as his blog and twitter feeds. Miles’ research on mobility has been cited by the U.S. President. Currently he is working on issues dealing with the socio-economic status of immigrants and children of immigrants, and also with comparisons in the development and well-being of children in the rich countries. See: milescorak.com 3 Spring 2013 Prentice Post Prent ice Inst itute Outreach In March we held our 2nd Annual Café Conversation Colleagues and friends, both old and new, of the Prentice Institute packed the room at the Osho restaurant as we enjoyed delicious food and drink while participating in the presentations of three well-informed panelists. This Café Conversation was on one of the most talked about issues affecting the world today: Climate Change. This unique forum allowed the topic to be presented and discussed with diversity. We hope to enjoy more of these informative community outreach sessions. Stay tuned to our website for upcoming community events. See: www.uleth.ca/prenticeinstitute The President of the Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada (SSHRC), Dr. Chad Gaffield, visited the Prentice Institute for a quick ‘hello’ while visiting the University on April 10, 2013. Dr. Gaffield zipped through the campus in the morning, and gave an open talk for faculty and graduate students at Andy’s Place at 9:45am. Details of his talk are found here www.uleth.ca/graduatestudies/node/952/ With Dr. Susan McDaniel on his left, Dr. Gaffield is holding her new book, Global Aging, which he mentions in his U-wide talk. To his right is Dr. Alexander Darku, Associate Director of the Prentice Institute. Thank you to our panelists, James Byrne and Bryson Brown of the UofL and Gwendolyn Blue of UofC, for the riveting Café Conversation on Climate Change: Impacts, Risks, Solutions - March 11, 2013. To Susan McDaniel, UofL for moderating the conversation, keeping everyone in line and adding her own academic perspective. Most of all, to ALL who joined us at Osho’s with you, information comes alive. Keep the conversations going!! The Prentice is an ever changing, ever growing venture and as I started gathering all the latest Spotlights on all of our affiliates near and far, I began to see that we have completely outdone ourselves. With a serious number of publications, articles, lectures and grants, as well as all the exciting new research the Prentice Institute and its affiliates are a bee hive of activity. ***Nancy Metz, Administrative Assistant. Recent Publications In the Public Eye (a sample only) 1 2 3 4 5 Questions - Dr. Olu Awosoga - Assistant Professor in the Health Sciences - April 4, 2013 Dr. Olu Awosoga, Prentice Affiliate, speaks to the Legend about his research. (Page 7, April 2013, volume12, issue 8) The World is Leaving Canada’s Carbon Economy Behind - James Byrne PhD., Professor of Geography, Prentice Institute Research Affiliate - March 14, 2013 www.ipolitics.ca/2013/03/14/the-world-is-leaving-canadas-carbon-economy-behind Susan McDaniel: Fruits of the Earth: Not all Belong at the Top. November 15, 2013 posted by Susan invitation on Broadbent Institute Blog www.broadbentinstitute.ca/en/blog/susan-mcdaniel-fruits-earth-not-all-belong-top To keep up on publication's of our research affiliates please check our site at www.uleth.ca/prenticeinstitute/research/publications Prentice Post Spring 2013 4 Spot light To be added or removed from the Prentice Institute Newsletter list please email [e-mail] Global Ageing in the Twenty-First Century Challenges, Opportunities and Implications Edited by Susan A. McDaniel, University of Lethbridge, Canada and Zachary Zimmer, University of California at San Francisco, USA The Public Policy Making Process in Ghana: How Politicians and Civil Servants Deal with Public Problems Edited by Frank Ohemeng, University of Ottawa, Barbara Carroll, McMaster University, Joseph Ayee, University of KwaZulu-Natal & Alexander Bilson Darku, University of Lethbridge Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. Zora Neale Hurston Spring 2013 Prentice Post Prent ice Inst itute Students 5 Over the past 18 years, Peter Kellett has worked as a registered nurse, nurse educator and manager in both provincial and federal (FNIHB) health systems in three Canadian provinces and one U.S. State in the areas of medical/surgical care, emergency care, primary health care, community health, and First Nations Health. Peter is a member of the nursing pro-gram in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Lethbridge. He holds a Master of Nursing degree in popula-tion nursing/epidemiology, and is currently a Ph.D. student in Demography with the Prentice Institute for Global Popula-tion and Economy. See: directory.uleth.ca/users/peter.kellett Tanya Byrne is a second year M.Sc. candidate, majoring in multidisciplinary studies. Her research interests include vulnerability to climate change, food security, and household adaptive capacity. Her current research involves a sub-national assessment of relative vulnerability to climate change in rural Nicaragua. While at UofL, Tanya has maintained a 4.0 GPA and was awarded the 2013 25th Anniversary MA/ MSc scholarship. She completed her undergraduate degree at the UofA where she graduated, with honors, from the Bachelor of Commerce program in 2008. She spent three years working as a management consultant in Edmonton before moving to Panama in 2011. While in Panama, Tanya spent her time doing free-lance consulting work, learning Spanish, surfing and volunteering with at-risk youth in a suburb of Pan-ama City. In addition to her Masters work, she has been part of a project that focuses on implementing healthcare information technolo-gy (IT) on First Nations Reserves in Alberta. The team has been nominated for the 2013 Deputy Minster’s Award for Excellence. Celeste Barnes is currently completing a Multidisciplinary Master of Science at the University of Lethbridge in the area of geography, new media, and sociology. Her research focus is on modelling coastal population and food production vulnerabilities to sea level rise and tropical cyclone threats in the Caribbean. Prior to resuming university, Celeste was employed in the Information Technology field. She was responsible for managing staff and budgets for annual opera-tions, numerous capital projects, computer hardware and software contracts, and procurement in a fiscally responsible manner. She implemented security relating to computing systems as well as policy, procedure, and documentation approvals to ensure the business computing environment functioned smoothly. She focused on team work, improved customer satisfaction and communication to aid the business user community. Celeste has worked with all levels of an organization to reach a common vision. Samuel Mantey Ofori Dei, from Ghana, is interested in how to improve the health and well-being of people residing in poor countries. Being from a poor community himself, Samuel was witness to the devastating effects of diseases and the challenges faced by rural people in meeting their daily health needs. Samuel’s experiences with ineffective health care and lack of necessary health interventions, has enabled him to utilize this knowledge by becoming involved in health research to find solutions for devastating health problems facing disadvantaged populations. His intended doctoral project, he feels, will assist him in this endeavour. Samuel with be starting the Ph.D. in Demography in Sep-tember, 2013 Heather McIntosh-Rivera is a Canadian-Belizean with a wealth of knowledge and experience in research and market analysis, travel & tourism, project management, strategic business planning, and business development. In 2008 Heather completed Bachelor of Management Degree with great distinction at the University of Lethbridge and began her career in economic development. This fall, Heather will begin her Masters studies in Demography and part-time studies with Dr. Susan McDaniel and in her thesis will explore the social, economic and cultural impacts of second-generation immi-grants at the regional, provincial and national level. LingLing Fan will be the Ph.D. in Demography in September 2013. She is interested in exploring the socio-cultural dimensions of health, illness, and healthcare practices. In particular, she will focus her Ph.D. research on the effects of cultural practices on the LGS Mennonites’ mental health, especially the links between the role of the Bible and its authority (such as the interpretation of the Bible) and individual’s mental well-being. This research extends her Masters work at UofL which explored the beliefs and practices related to death, dying and care for the end-of-life among the Low German-speaking (LGS) Mennonites. She will be funded by a CIHR grant to Dr. Judith Kulig, Health Sciences. The number of graduate students involved with the Prentice Institute are increasing. Their enthusiasm and topic diversity add dimension to the mandate and mission of the Prentice Institute. We are fortunate to have been awarded a grant from the Society of Edmonton Demographers (SED) to contribute to graduate scholar-ships for students in Demography and Populations studies. Prent ice Brownbag Seminars * Podcast videos can be found on the website at www.uleth.ca/prenticeinstitute We had a well rounded and informative array of Brown Bag lectures this Spring Semester and are already working on our Fall Sessions. We encourage all of you to watch our webpage for upcoming Brown Bag events. *Friday 11 January 2103 Kurt Klein “The Biofuels Frenzy: Implications for Agriculture, Food Security and the Environment” *Thursday 31 January 2013 Alexander Darku “Income Inequality, Status Seeking and Savings in Canada” Friday 8 February 2013 Cheryl Currie “Pathways to Health for Aboriginal Canadians: The Role of Cultural Continuity” Friday 1 March 2013 Pamela Winsor “Helping to Make a Difference: Literacy Teacher Education in Diverse Global Contexts” Friday 5 April 2013 Ivan Townshend, Olu Awosoga and Judith Kulig “Family Resilience and PTSD in Children in Slave Lake” *Friday 19 April 2013 Ana Ferrer, Dept. of Economics, UofC “Labour Force Participation in Immigrant Households” 6 Prentice Post Spring 2013 It is always a good idea to take some good old Rn’R, (rest and relaxation). You crave it, your doctor tells you it should be so and for health purposes it is a very good idea indeed. At the Prentice, however, I have learned a new impression of ‘The good ol’ Rn’R’. It comes with expletives bursting from the office and a general, overall form of frustration. As I am most curious, I often wondered what it was that was setting the fires in Susan’s office on these occasion when she would moan, “I have to do another Rn’R.” Well? I questioned, most interested, that’s not right! There should be no hair pulling, no growls and grrr’s during your period of ‘rest and relaxation’! It did finally occur to me to ask why the ‘rest and relaxation’ was so stressful when Susan calmly corrected me in stating that she would certainly need to take an Rn’R from the latest … revise and resubmit… of journal articles. Ahhh! Now I understand. Hair pulling indeed! Prent ice Pillar “Research is to see what everybody has seen and to think what nobody has thought.” Alberta Szent-Gyorgy