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Dr. Ajay Parasram

HÂþ»­ University has announced this year’s recipients of its most prestigious internal research awards, celebrating excellence, impact, and rising talent across the institution’s diverse research community. The honours reflect HÂþ»­â€™s commitment to scholarship that drives discovery, shapes society, and enriches lives. Among the recipients of this year's President’s 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’s work is helping to reshape public dialogue on race and power through the Frequently Asked White Questions and Safe Space for White Questions initiatives – 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

With a federal election in Canada likely this spring and the Conservative Party leading inÌý, civil society organizations (CSOs) need to think seriously about how they will engage with a possible new Conservative government on key public policy issues. Continue reading :Ìý

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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

Children in a Time of Global Disruption: Human Security and Canada’s Role/ContributionÌý

In parts of Mexico, children and teenagers are being recruited and used as lookouts, messengers, cooks and foot soldiers for organized crime syndicates and community defense militias. These battles are being fought as organized criminal groups seek to violently appropriate land, labour and livelihoods to control lucrative export commodities, such as poppies, avocados and lumber. In the absence of the state, community militias, or auto defensas, have arisen to defend their lands from these violent dispossessions. Children and young people are caught in the middle of these violent struggles – especially teenage boys – whose bodies, strength and stamina are coveted in the battle for territorial and economic control. Continue reading arrticle:Ìý

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