Research
Dr. Ajay Parasram
国民彩票 has announced this year鈥檚 recipients of its most prestigious internal research awards, celebrating excellence, impact, and rising talent across the institution鈥檚 diverse research community. The honours reflect 国民彩票鈥檚 commitment to scholarship that drives discovery, shapes society, and enriches lives. Among the recipients of this year's President鈥檚 Research Excellence Award - Research Impact: Shaping the world through discovery, is Dr. Ajay Parasram, an associate professor in the departments of International Development Studies and History (and a Dal alum - BA with Honours in Political Science) .
Dr. Parasram鈥檚 work is helping to reshape public dialogue on race and power through the Frequently Asked White Questions and Safe Space for White Questions initiatives 鈥� widely recognized multimedia public education projects that deftly bridge scholarly research and community engagement. With clarity, humour, and a profound commitment to anti-racist pedagogy, Dr. Parasram has created a transformative space for interrogating whiteness, colonialism, andsystemic power.
Dr. John Cameron
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Dr. Matthew Schnurr
The goal of digital agriculture is to plug vast amounts of data into predictive algorithms to enhance farmer decision, which will in turn create better and more productive farms.
Over the past two years, Dr. Schnurr and his research team have conducted over thirty interviews with government officials, development donors, and NGOs to untangle the complex web of individuals and institutions advancing this process of digitization. The research team has visited over fifty farmers to better understand their own perspectives on this new technology.
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Dr. Kate Swanson
"Youth, labour and narco-cartel recruitment in Mexico.鈥�
Pulling from Mexican research with colleagues at the University of Texas, Austin, she presented a paper titled, 鈥淵outh, labour and narco-cartel recruitment in Mexico.鈥� The paper explores the complicated ways in which children and youth are recruited into situations of armed violence in Mexico in order to help understand why so many youth are fleeing to the border to seek asylum in the United State
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