Live Work Well Research Centre

Partnership Engage Research Grant – Storied Lives: shifting perspectives on poverty

The Live Work Well Research Centre and the Guelph and Wellington Task Force for Poverty Elimination have been awarded a one-year Partnership Engage Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). The research project titled Storied Lives: shifting perspectives on poverty, will develop a collection of composite stories of those living in poverty in the Guelph-Wellington, Ontario region.

New Report: “More Than a Footnote: A Research Report on Women and Girls with Disabilities in Canada”

DAWN Canada has recently shared a new report: "More Than A Footnote: A Research Report on Women and Girls with Disabilities in Canada."

Call for Submission for MAI: Feminism and Visual Culture on Feminist Pedagogies

The intersectional feminist and LGBTQI journal MAI is seeking contributions to a special issue on feminist pedagogies. This special issue aims to explore the place of feminism in the classroom, revealing pleasure and resistance, complaint and celebration. It welcomes contributions that address the strategies, obstacles, and opportunities of feminist pedagogy in a range of contexts from classroom discussions and syllabi to faculty committee meetings, screening rooms, and activist spaces.

Towards a Framework for Building Community-University Resilience Research Agendas

How can we scope multi-year community-university collaborations that draw on the university’s diverse resources and contribute to community resilience?

A New Name & New Path

At the 20th anniversary celebration of the University of Guelph, Centre for Families Work and Well-being held last night, it was announced that the Centre would be taking on a new name and a new strategic direction.

Societies Special Issue

Societies (ISSN 2075-4698) is an international peer-reviewed open access journal of sociology published quarterly online by MDPI.

Call for Papers! Sexuality Studies Association

The Sexuality Studies Association is welcoming proposals for the annual meeting, to be held June 2-4, 2019 at the University of British Columbia, in conjuction with the Congress of Social Sciences and Humanities. Proposals for work in English or French, from any disciplinary are welcome. Presentations can be in a variety of formats including papers, panels, workshops, roundtables, film, performance art pieces, among others.

Calling Participants! Relationship Crafting: A qualitative investigation of the relationship strategies used by working women

Do you find yourself balancing work and personal life? Have you ever felt that you had to choose one over the other?

Calling all employers, managers, executive directors, HR specialists, and other professionals supporting employees!

Do you have experience supporting (or trying to support) employees who live with episodic disabilities (EDs; conditions that are characterized by periods of good health interrupted by periods of illness or disability)? If so, we are requesting 15 minutes of your time to complete an online survey regarding your experiences with accommodating EDs in the workplace. Your responses will be used to help us develop information and resources to support employers to retain and support employees with episodic health conditions while meeting business/service objectives.

Not all Parents Benefit from Canada’s Parental Leave Program

TVO's current affairs blog recently addressed the disparities in income support for new parents in Canada. As the blog notes, historically Canada has compared favourably to "its OECD peers when it comes to parental leave," and in December 2017, the Canadian government further expanded its parental leave program. The new policy extends benefits from 12 months of partially paid leave to 18. The amount of the benefit remains unchanged, but what has changed is that parents can now stretch the same amount over 18 months.

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