Canada Research ChairsIn 2000, the Canada Research Chairs Program was launched by the Government of Canada to promote leading-edge research and innovation in Canadian universities and to attract and retain the world’s best researchers. Mount Saint Vincent University was awarded four Canada Research Chairs.
The MSVU Strategic Research Plan for the Canada Research Chairs Program provides an overview of the main research directions of Mount Saint Vincent University. The goal of all Canada Research Chairs is to advance the frontiers of knowledge within their fields, not only through their own research, but also by coordinating research efforts of other researchers within their discipline. Mount Saint Vincent University currently has four Canada Research Chairs.
.jpg) | | Dr. Janice Keefe, Professor, Family Studies & Gerontology Dr. Keefe currently holds the Canada Research Chair in Aging and Caregiving Policy
Janice Keefe is a Professor in the Department of Family Studies and Gerontology at Mount Saint Vincent University and holds appointments at Dalhousie Faculties of Medicine and Graduate Studies. She was recently renewed for a second term as a Canada Research Chair in Aging and Caregiving Policy. In 2006 she was awarded the Lena Isabel Jodrey Chair in Gerontology and appointed Director, Nova Scotia Centre on Aging. Dr. Keefe’s research areas are rural elderly, continuing care policy and caregiving, including work and elder care, caregiver assessment and compensation, and human resource issues in home care.
Centre - Maritime Data Centre for Aging Research & Policy Analysis.
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| | Dr. Dianne Looker, Professor - Sociology/Anthropology Dr. Looker currently holds the Canada Research Chair in Equity and Technology
Dr. Looker joined MSVU in July 2005 as the Canada Research Chair in Equity and Technology. Her research aims to develop educational and other policies and practices that enhance education by bridging the technology gap and bringing marginalized students into the mainstream.
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| | Dr. Marnina Gonick, Professor - Women's Studies and Faculty of Education Research Involves: The Atlantic Centre for Research and Education of Girls and Women. The central focus of research is study the implications of neo-liberalism in the lives of girls and women, nationally and internationally.
Research Relevance: The importance of the research lays in the questions it raises about the relationships between social theory, the reproduction of inequalities, changing social institutions and the everyday lives of girls and women.
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 | | Dr. Patricia Williams, Professor - Applied Human Nutrition Research Dr. Williams currently holds the Canada Research Chair in Food Security and Policy Change.
She is the Director of the Participatory Action Research and Training Centre on Food Security, at Mount Saint Vincent University, and has been working collaboratively with community, government and academic partners to address the issue of food security for 10 years. She completed a Canadian Institutes of Health Research Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Atlantic Health Promotion Research Centre (AHPRC), Dalhousie University from 2001-03. Since this time her research has focused on the use of participatory research processes to engage partners from diverse backgrounds in understanding the determinants of food security, and in understanding and facilitating processes for policy change. She has led several national studies on food security related policy change and the use of basic language knowledge translation tools in building capacity for policy and systems change. In partnership with the Nova Scotia Food Security Network and other key community, academic and government partners, she was recently awarded a 5 year Community University Research Alliance grant (2010-2015) from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada to build this research. The CURA aims to support the engagement of a broad range of stakeholders, including those most vulnerable to food insecurity and organizations that serve them, in a strategic research alliance to better understand and influence the determinants of CFS, and build capacity for improved food security policy. |