June 2012

Fighting Poverty, Inequalities and Social Exclusion

As a follow up to the international conference on “Social Statistics, Poverty and Social Exclusion” organized by the QICSS and the MESS last fall, we are pleased to release Alain Noël’s report summarizing the main research evidence from Quebec, Canada and abroad presented at this meeting. You can download the report, the summary and the highlights.

28 June, 2012 |

Job Opportunity

Statistics Canada is seeking to fill two positions as RDC analysts in Fredericton and Kingston. To know more, click here.

26 June, 2012 |

Long-form census

One year later, the decision to abolish the mandatory long-form census still raises concerns among researchers. Recently, two panels were organized to discuss next steps. One at the Acfas meeting by the QICSS and the other at the Congress of Humanities by the Canadian Association of Geographers and the Canadian Population Society. A summary report of the QICSS panel will be available in a forthcoming book but you can now read a summary article published in University Affairs about the second panel as well as Rod Beaujot’s presentation about “Why we still need a census”.

13 June, 2012 |

Trying to Make Sense of Knowledge Transfer in the Social Sciences

On May 29, CRDCN KT Coordinator Sarah Fortin was invited to talk to graduate students at the Canadian Population Society Graduate Research Development Conference, during Congress 2012 of the Humanities and Social Sciences in Waterloo. To download her PowerPoint presentation and learn more about the Network and the challenges raised by knowledge transfer, click here.

8 June, 2012 |