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Several researchers affiliated with the Bridging Divides program have been awarded funding through the Government of Canada’s latest $1.3 billion investment in research, supporting excellence and innovation across natural and social sciences, engineering disciplines, humanities, and interdisciplinary fields.

The International Review of Information Ethics (IRIE) has put out a Call for Papers for the IRIE Volume 35 (Extended). This issue is about the ethics of managing migration through advanced digital technologies (ADTs).

On February 3, the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) announced the new experts and representatives that will be serving on its Research Council for the Canadian AI Safety Institute (CAISI) Research Program.

This presentation describes the use of Community Learning for Empowerment Groups to explore the psychosocial adaptation of diverse groups of Syrian refugees revealed in Dr. Sophie Yohani's community-based participatory research project.

In this presentation, Daniel Hiebert will explain the context and purpose of the project followed by a demonstration from the newly launched version of the website.

The superdiversity website compiles population data and breaks it down by neighbourhood for six major Canadian cities including Edmonton.

On November 14, 2024, The Bridging Divides team came together for a workshop preceding the 27th CESA Conference in Edmonton, Alberta.

Join Yasmeen Abu-Laban for a Q and A about the recently published “Resisting the Dehumanization of Refugees.”

About one in four food bank clients in Alberta self-identified as an immigrant, refugee or visible minority group in a HungerCount report in 2022. 

As a Canada CIFAR AI Chair at Amii, Geoffrey Rockwell will continue breaking new ground in examining the wide-reaching impact of technology on humanity.

Elizabeth Onyango, assistant professor in the School of Public Health, is addressing the issue of food insecurity that many diverse ethno-cultural immigrant communities in Canada are facing. 

Research has the potential to make a better tomorrow for all. To have impact across society, research must embrace diverse voices, including from groups that have been historically excluded from those endeavours.

In this week’s spotlight, Eleni speaks to the importance of combining reinforcement learning, and more generally data-driven machine learning, with expert knowledge and the necessity of understanding data and computational thinking.

Figuring out how immigrants to Canada adapt and thrive is a weighty issue that the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta is perfectly equipped to help address, says a lead participant on a massive new research project designed to investigate the topic through an interdisciplinary lens.

Immigrants made up 23 per cent of the Canadian population as of 2021, and that number is projected to increase to between 29.1 and 34 per cent by 2041.