News Category: Faculty

Prof. Carmen Logie on sex education and young people with disabilities

Posted on December 3, 2019
Categories: Carmen Logie, Faculty

Prof. Carmen Logie Global News interview

Prof. Peter A. Newman leads UNICEF report on HIV among adolescents and youth from key populations in Asia

Posted on December 2, 2019
Categories: Faculty, Peter Newman

Prof. Peter A. Newman served as lead researcher for a 4-country UNICEF formative assessment officially released on […]

“America the Beautiful and Violent” is a case study amplifying structural inequalities and tensions in neighbourhoods around the world

Posted on November 30, 2019
Categories: Dexter Voisin, Faculty

The Caribbean Camera spoke to Dean Dexter Voisin about his new book America the Beautiful and Violent: […]

Prof. Tanya L. Sharpe interviewed by Global News on the traumatic impact of the Dafonte Miller assault case

Posted on November 18, 2019
Categories: Faculty, Tanya Sharpe

Prof. Tanya L. Sharpe interviewed by Global News on the trial of Michael and Christian Theriault. The brothers Theriault are jointly charged with aggravated assault in the December 2016, beating of Dafonte Miller. The trial raises issues of structural racism and its impact on Black communities.

Warning: Graphic images of violence

Prof. Toula Kourgiantakis receives Early Career Teaching Award

Posted on October 21, 2019
Categories: Faculty, Toula Kourgiantakis

FIFSW Assistant Professor Toula Kourgiantakis a winner of a 2019 Early Career Teaching Award, recognizing faculty who enhance student experience.

Prof. Rupaleem Bhuyan research on precarious status featured in UofT Magazine

Posted on October 3, 2019
Categories: Faculty, Rupaleem Bhuyan

Ruplaeem Bhuyan, FIFSW Associate Professor and lead researcher of the Migrant Mothers Project speaks to the effect of Toronto’s housing crunch on non-status migrants and people with a precarious status.

Prof. Dexter Voisin on gun and gang violence – Toronto Sun interview

Posted on September 30, 2019
Categories: Dexter Voisin, Faculty

Policing will not address the rise of gang-related activity and shootings. Dean of the FIFSW, Dexter Voisin thoughts on gang shootings: “We typically think in terms of law enforcement — surveillance, arrests, gun buy backs, and those sorts of measures. But what you have to look at are the structural drivers of gun and gang violence.”

Prof. Carmen Logie interviewed by Xtra Magazine

Posted on September 24, 2019
Categories: Carmen Logie, Faculty

Carmen Logie, FIFSW Associate Professor and the Canada Research Chair in global health equity and social justice with marginalized populations, tells Xtra that based on her research, bisexual women are more likely to report sexual abuse and transactional sex and less likely to receive appropriate sexual health advice in comparison to other women and sexual minorities.