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Social Justice & Community Safety
This cluster involves research and practice focused on equity and fairness at both individual and systemic levels. It considers inequities in social, political, and economic power, equitable access to opportunities and resources, as well as scholarship that involves reciprocal University-community engagement. It also includes research that deals with prevention and protection of communities from circumstances or events that could place in jeopardy the safety of individuals or groups. Researchers in this cluster study a diverse array of topics such as critical theory, labour studies, human rights, Indigenization, post/anti-colonialism, social services, worker safety and worker rights, bullying, community engagement, corrections, genocide, law and law enforcement, emergency preparedness, and victimization.
Social Justice & Community Safety Research Cluster Brochure.
Researchers
Name |
Position |
College/Faculty/Department |
Research interests/Keywords |
ContactInformation |
Professor |
Faculty of Business Administration |
Indigenous entrepreneurship and business development, social responsibility, sustainable development | ||
Professor |
Department of Psychology,Campion College |
Pro-environmental behaviour (PEB) including personal characteristics and values (e.g., nature connection, place attachment) and situational influences (e.g., natural history museums, outdoor scenes). | Arbuthnott@uregina.ca | |
Beingessner, Naomi | Coordinator | Community Research Unit, Faculty of Arts | Research facilitator: Anonymous Reporting and Third Option Program Pilot Project, Interpersonal Violence and Abuse and Animal Safekeeping, Campus Living Wage Campaign, Farmers, Policy, and Local Food Systems in Saskatchewan: Barriers and Opportunities | Naomi.Beingessner@uregina.ca |
Clune, Laurie | Associate Professor | Faculty of Nursing | Community nursing, health literacy, health geography, research focused on marginalized groups: immigrants people with (dis)abilities and differences, injured workers, women, Institutional Ethnography |
Laurie.Clune@uregina.ca |
Cooper, Elizabeth | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Kinesiology and Health Studies | Indigenous Health, Global Health, Wellness, Decolonization, Gender, Communication/Knowledge Translation | |
DeSantis, Gloria | Assistant Professor, Founder/Facilitator, Voluntary Sector Studies Network | Department of Justice, Faculty of Arts | Public policy advocacy work of nonprofit organizations working with marginalized populations, health inequities, social justice and human rights | Gloria.DeSantis@uregina.ca |
Donnelly, Glenn | Associate Dean (Graduate) Associate Professor |
Faculty of Nursing | Understanding the human experience of obesity and weight loss surgery with the longer term purpose identifying safety issues and improving the quality of services provided to these people, Bias towards obese individual,stereotypical beliefs, lack of employment opportunities, discrimination in many of society's structures | Glenn.Donnelly@uregina.ca |
Eaton, Emily | Associate Professor | Department of Geography & Environmental Studies, Faculty of Arts | Indigenous/settler alliances around environmental justice, Corporate power in the carbon extractive industries, economic, social, political and environmental impacts of resource extraction | Emily.Eaton@uregina.ca |
Associate Professor
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Faculty of Arts
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Community media, collaborative investigative journalism, community-engaged scholarship, freedom of information
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Fletcher, Kara | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Social Work | Addictions and self-medication, attachment and trauma, mental health, couple and family therapy, and knowledge translation | Kara.Fletcher@uregina.ca |
Gacek, James | Assistant Professor |
Justice Studies
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Incarceration; genocidal carcerality; critical issues in media, justice, and security studies; the exploitation of human-animal relations; sex work, indecency and obscenity jurisprudence; and the broader politics of judicial reasoning. | |
Grandy, Gina | Professor, Associate Dean Research & Graduate Programs | Faculty of Business Administration | Gender, women in leadership, stigma and work, leadership in not for profits | Gina.Grandy@uregina.ca |
Hampton, Mary | Professor (Luther College) | Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts | Anti-violence research | Mary.Hampton@uregina.ca |
Hanson, Cindy | Associate Professor & Director of Adult Education and Human Resource Development |
Faculty of Education | Community based research in Indigenous, feminist and labour issues. Policy work regarding the Indian Residential School Settlement Agreement. Intergenerational learning and Adult education for social justice internationally. Teach participatory research methods | Cindy. Hanson@uregina.ca |
Hirani, Shela | Associate Professor | Faculty of Nursing | Maternal and child Health, breastfeeding, early child development. humanitarian emergencies, health of immigrants and refugees, qualitative and quantitative research, instrument development and validation. | shela.hirani@uregina.ca |
Hulbert, Margot | Associate Professor | Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy | Law, Government Policy, Aboriginal Governance, Environment and Sustainability, Social Justice, Climate change | Margot.Hurlbert@uregina.ca |
Jones, Nick | Associate Professor, Department Head | Department of Justice Studies, Faculty of Arts | Genocide, restorative justice, transitional justice, Aboriginal justice issues, and criminological theory. | Nick.Jones@uregina.ca |
Lewis, Patrick | Professor | Faculty of Education | Early Childhood Education, Play and Learning Research, Canada's absence of a National (or provincial) Early Learning and Care Program,Teacher Education | Patrick.Lewis@uregina.ca |
Mantesso, Jaime | Instructor III | Faculty of Nursing | Jaime.Mantesso@uregina.ca | |
Mishra, Sandeep | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Business Administration | Antisocial conduct, gambling, inequality and relative deprivation, judgment and decision-making, risk-taking, risk attitudes | Sandeep.Mishra@uregina.ca |
Morgan, Yasser | Associate Professor | Software Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science | Wireless MESH Networks, Mobile Ad-hoc Networks, MAC layer and Service Discovery algorithms, Mobile Applications and Middleware, Location-Aware Applications and Mobile Agent, Vehicular Communications specially DSRC and VII, Distributed and Pervasive Computing, Software Engineering Models | Yasser.Morgan@uregina.ca |
Pete, Shauneen | Associate Professor | Faculty of Education | Indigenization of the academy as well as how we reform schooling for social justice (especially for Indigenous learners), aspects of white identity development in relation to disrupting white superiority (in teaching, schooling, the curriculum, policies, and funding) | Shauneen.Pete@uregina.ca |
Pirbhai-Illich, Fatima | Associate Professor | Language and Literacy Education, Faculty of Education | Academic achievement of minoritized (immigrant, refugee, Indigenous) students, critical multicultural education, culturally responsive literacy education including multiliteracies, critical literacies, and English as an Additional Language within teacher education,ethical engagement of internationalization in institutions of higher education | Fatima.Pirbhai-Illich@uregina.ca |
Ruddell, Rick | Professor, Law Foundation of Saskatchewan Chair in Police Studies | Department of Justice Studies, Faculty of Arts | Community safety:Policing/Juvenile justice/Corrections | Rick.Ruddell@uregina.ca |
Russell, Gale | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Education |
Mathematics teaching and learning, decolonization, Indigenous worldview, Traditional Western worldview
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Gale.Russell@uregina.ca |
Schick, Carol | Associate Professor | Faculty of Education | Anti-oppressive and critical anti-racist pedagogy in schooling and public education | Carol.Schick@uregina.ca |
Spooner, Marc | Associate Professor | Faculty of Education | Qualitative and participatory action research at the intersections of theory and action-on-the-ground. Interests:homelessness & poverty, "audit culture" & the effects of neoliberalization & corporatization on higher education, and social justice, activism, & participatory democracy. | Marc.Spooner@uregina.ca |
Stevens, Andrew | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Business Administration | Labour studies, unionism, industrial relations, sociology of work & employmen | Andrew.Stevens@uregina.ca |
Tucker, Sean | Associate Professor | Faculty of Business Administration | Social justice in the workplace (e.g., worker safety and worker rights, more generally) | Sean.Tucker@uregina.ca |
Wagner, Joan | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Nursing | Workplace empowerment, horizontal violence. Patient and care provider safety related to healthy workplaces | Joan.Wagner@uregina.ca |
Watkinson, Ailsa M. | Professor, Graduate Studies Coordinator | Faculty of Social Work | Child physical punishment, child safety, prisoner rights, international social work education, faith based public service provision/Charter Rights, community service, policy analysis | Ailsa.Watkinson@uregina.ca |
Wilson, Stuart | Associate Professor, Department Head of International Languages | Department of Economics, Faculty of Arts | Savings, Investment, and Economic Growth; Demographic Change and Economic Policy; Public Safety | Stuart.Wilson@uregina.ca |
Zapata, Oscar | Assistant Professor | Economics | Environmental and resource economics, behavioral and experimental economics, development economics, and applied econometrics, with specific emphasis in the economics of water and climate change. | Oscar.Zapata@uregina.ca |