Department of Law and Legal Studies faculty member, Dr. Melanie Adrian, has received Ontario’s highest teaching honour, the OCUFA Teaching Award!

Dr. Adrian’s commitment to teaching excellence is evident in her commitment to incorporating innovative pedagogy and approaches to facilitating student discussion and participation.

In addition to being the 25th 杏吧原创 educator to win the OCUFA award since it was established in 1973, Dr. Adrian has been recognized numerous times for her teaching excellence, including as the inaugural 杏吧原创 University Chair in Teaching Innovation for demonstrating teaching excellence and innovation across her career (2019), as an appointee the Order of Ontario (2019), she was awarded the Leading Women, Building Communities Recognition Award (2018) and the Canada 150 Senate Medal (2017), for outstanding contributions to Canadian society.

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Professor Dale Spencer has been named the 2021 . Prof. Spencer鈥檚 research on violence, victimization, the Sixties Scoop, and settler-colonial projects, and digital worlds and the young people who engage with them, is both innovative and responsive to the important and often under-examined aspects of our history, daily life, and future possibilities.

Prof. Spencer was recently awarded a $173,717 five-year SSHRC Insight Grant for his research project that focuses on the RCMP and municipal police officers managing the national sex offender registry to look at how the registry is used in Canada. He is currently looking at policies involved in public health measures that limit social contact and the links between recreational activities and risk tolerance during the pandemic.

鈥淒ale is one of Canada鈥檚 most prolific early career interdisciplinary social scientists,鈥� says FPA Dean Brenda O鈥橬eill. 鈥淲e are proud that the FPA Research Excellence Chair will help to increase our understanding of violence and victimization in many areas including corrections, elderly care and in forced adoption such as the Sixties Scoop.鈥�

Mary Francoli, Associate Dean and Director of Arthur Kroeger College, says, 鈥淒ale has an impressive record of accomplishment in securing diverse research funding in support of his research, a strong publication record, and an innovative, ambitious research program.鈥�

Congratulations Professor Spencer!

Learn about Professor Dale Spencer鈥檚 six ongoing funded research projects in this Research Spotlight.

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Professor Sebastien Malette has focused on unrecognized M茅tis and non-status Indigenous communities in the Eastern provinces of Canada. He is the co-author of three books on the subject, including his latest, entitled Bois-Brul茅s: The untold story of the M茅tis of Western Qu茅bec (UBC, 2020).

His latest project, funded by a $203,999 SSHRC Insight Grant, is entitled 鈥淢e虂tis Acadians? An investigation into the legal arguments of the Kouchibouguac families against her Majesty the Queen.鈥� It considers how one hundred Acadian M茅tis families who were expropriated when Kouchibouguac Park was created are now deploying a new legal strategy. They are demanding compensation from Canada under an alleged ancestral title under the protection of Hereditary Mi鈥檏maq chief Stephen Augustine.

鈥淭his innovative argument allows us to move beyond accusations that the Eastern Me虂tis would necessarily pose an existential threat to Indigenous sovereignties,鈥� explains Malette. 鈥淩ather, by accommodating those Acadian Me虂tis willing to adhere to and assume their responsibilities vis-脿-vis Indigenous laws and institutions to ensure their recognition as championed by Chief Augustine, the Acadian Me虂tis diaspora could very well be in a position to side-step the Canadian legal mechanism of recognition derived by section 35 altogether in favour of Indigenous legal norms. In such a radical anti-colonial scenario, the Acadian Me虂tis would thus reinforce existing Mi鈥檏maq political and legal institutions rather than competing against them.鈥�

In collaboration with anthropologists, Drs. Michel Bouchard (UNBC), Siomonn Pulla (Royal Roads University) and Denis Gagnon (University of Saint-Boniface), this project will explore the historical and ethnographic evidence associated with the Acadian M茅tis diaspora, as well as the legal implications associated with this novel argument articulated by the families of Kouchibouguac.

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Professor Sebastien Malette, and his co-authors, have been awarded the  Prix du Canada en sciences humaines et sociales 2020 by the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences his book Les Bois-Br没l茅s de l鈥橭utaouais 鈥� Une 茅tude ethnoculturelle des M茅tis de la Gatineau.

The prize is awarded annually to the best scholarly book written in French that has received funding from the Awards to Scholarly Publications Program. Recently, his book was translated into English and is available through UBC Press.

The Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences promotes research and teaching for the advancement of an inclusive, democratic and prosperous society. With a membership now comprising over 160 universities, colleges and scholarly associations, the federation represents a diverse community of 91,000 researchers and graduate students across Canada. The federation organizes Canada鈥檚 largest academic gathering, the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, bringing together more than 8,000 participants each year.

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Congratulations to Prof. Dale Spencer, who was recently been named by the Ontario government as one of three recipients at 杏吧原创 University to be honoured with  (ERA). Each researcher will receive $150,000 to support projects on electric vehicles, cybercrime and youth, and skilled migration.

“Digital Culture, Youth and Policing: Risk-taking and Police Response in the Information Age”

Prof. Spencer鈥檚 research program explores how young people understand and mitigate cyber risks, more specifically forms of violence associated with the use of digital communication. In line with the Ontario Innovation Agenda in the area of digital media and information technology, his research will investigate youth experiences of cybercrime and interactions with police. Spencer will also examine the experiences of Ontario police officers when policing youth and responding to youth-related crimes associated with digital communication.

杏吧原创 the Early Research Awards

The program (ERA) is a program administered by the Province of Ontario that aims to help promising, recently-appointed Ontario researchers build their research teams of graduate students, post-doctoral fellows and research associates. It replaced the Premier鈥檚 Research Excellence Awards (PREA) program in 2005.

The ultimate goal of the program is to improve Ontario鈥檚 ability to attract and retain the best and brightest research talent in high-priority economic areas. Recipients receive $100,000 from the Province of Ontario towards a total project of $190,000.

For more information, please read the full university press release .

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On Sunday, November 27th, be sure to tune in to CBC’s “Canada’s Smartest Person” (episode 303) at 8 p.m. – you may recognize a familiar face!

Prof. Rebecca Bromwich will appear as a guest during the reality TV show’s season 3 line-up. The weekly program, hosted by Jessi Cruickshank, sees a group of competitors taking on multiple challenges in six knowledge categories (Musical, Visual, Physical, Social, Logical and Linguistic), with one person winning each episode. In the season finale, all finalists will battle it out for the coveted title of Canada’s Smartest Person.

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In the ‘2015 – 2016 Research and International Year in Review’, a publication released by the Office of the Vice-President (Research and International) this week, a section has been designated to spotlight research and funding highlights within the university. Prof. Dale Spencer is among those featured, and discusses his research projects in an article entitled, “Violence and Victimization: Police, Homelessness, Online Abuse and Indigenous Adoption”. As noted in the article, Prof. Spencer’s work delves into the experiences, effects of, and reactions to, manifold forms of violence and victimization.

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In today’s issue of the Ottawa Citizen, Prof. Dawn Moore weighs in on the dispute over the rewriting of campus policy on sexual violence and the inclusion of the term 鈥渞ape culture鈥�. The article is entitled “Battle lines drawn over ‘rape culture’ at 杏吧原创 University”, and features Prof. Moore expanding on the importance of the inclusion of the term:

Prof. Moore is one of several Law and Legal Studies faculty members to recently receive , in support of the Government of Ontario’s Sexual Violence and Harassment Action Plan.

Read the full article in the Ottawa Citizen here: 

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Leading up to the case verdict (and this week’s panel discussion event on campus), Prof.  takes a look at ‘Why we (still) can鈥檛 get enough of 骋丑辞尘别蝉丑颈鈥�‘ via the Ottawa Citizen.

Prof. Khan will be one of several panelists reviewing the verdict and analyzing its implications after Justice William B. Horkins hands down his verdict in the Jian Ghomeshi sex assault trial this Thursday, March 24th.

The panel discussion event organized by Prof. Khan and the Department of Law and Legal Studies, entitled ‘Grappling with Ghomeshi‘, is open to the public and will take place at 2:00 pm in the Senate Room (room 608, 6th floor) at Robertson Hall, here at 杏吧原创.

Read Prof. Khan’s full article here: 

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