There are fewer candidates in this October's municipal election than in the past. In speaking with AM 980, Dr. Jacquetta Newman, Professor of Politics and International Relations, suggests the stress of being in public view and financial concerns may play a role and that less competition will impact communities.FacebookTwitterLinkedin
Dr. Don Kerr, Professor of Sociology, was featured in Nikkei News, one of Japan's top news sources, explaining how Canada's immigration system changed in the 1960s and 1970s and how the country became a culturally diverse immigrant society.FacebookTwitterLinkedin
King’s alumnus Sean Brennan '08, has one of six plays included in London Community Players’ new season. Brennan’s Finding Hyde won a Brickenden Award for best original script in April and will premiere at the Palace Theatre Arts Commons.FacebookTwitterLinkedin
"Perhaps tattoos are not as detrimental and they once seemed," says Assistant Psychology Professor Alexandra Zidenburg. Professor Zidenburg speaks to London Morning on CBC Radio on the perception of tattoos in the workplace.FacebookTwitterLinkedin
Sharing the voices of Sean Hoogterp of the Walpole Island First Nation, Bkejwanong Territory and Indigenous Initiatives Coordinator for King’s, and Liz Akiwenzie, Indigenous Knowledge Keeper on the papal apology.FacebookTwitterLinkedin
As Pope Francis arrives in Canada, Dr. Robert Ventresca, Interim Academic Dean and papal scholar, discusses in a Toronto Star article if the pope will renounce a C15th Doctrine of Discovery used as the legal basis to colonize territories inhabited by non-Christians. “Popes are keepers of an office that is very, very slow to change,” says Dr. Ventresca.FacebookTwitterLinkedin
Dr. Rick Csiernik, Professor in the School of Social Work, appeared on Rogers TV's Invisible: Breaking Through the Stigma of Addiction to discuss how addiction and substance use affects all areas of society.FacebookTwitterLinkedin
Dr. Don Kerr, Professor of Sociology, told the London Free Press that while the number of Londoners earning less than $20,000 a year dropped between 2015 and 2020, income inequality will increase without government support.FacebookTwitterLinkedin
In an article about lab leaks on OpenMind.org, Dr. Alison Meek, Associate Professor of History, discusses how people wanting "easy answers to complex questions" about topics like COVID, turn to conspiracy theories, especially if governments aren't transparent about lab leaks.FacebookTwitterLinkedin
Dr. Andrea Lawlor, Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations, appeared on CBC's Windsor Morning with Nav Nanwa to speak about the naming of two bridges in Chatham-Kent.FacebookTwitterLinkedin
In a Chatelaine article on how medical debts have led some Canadians to consider medical assistance in dying, Dr. Jeff Preston, Assistant Professor of Disability Studies, says that Canada needs "a sea change in attitudes" and to grant people with disabilities the right to the resources they need. FacebookTwitterLinkedin
Dr. Thomas Tieku, Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations, has been named the joint winner of the Review of International Studies(RIS) Best Article Prize for "The Legon School of International Relations." The British International Studies Association has posted a discussion between Dr. Tieku and RIS editor Martin Coward about the article.FacebookTwitterLinkedin
Dr. Alexandra Zidenberg, Assistant Professor of Psychology, discusses the reasons why people get tattoos in an article on Healthing.ca. Some do it for uniqueness, others to tell a story and some for the physical effect.FacebookTwitterLinkedin
Dr. Marcie Penner, Associate Professor of Psychology, has co-written an article for The Conversation on the impacts from the gender pay gap for faculty at Canadian universities.FacebookTwitterLinkedin
With few candidates in the running for public and Catholic school board trustees, Dr. Andrea Lawlor, Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations, discusses the pros and cons of taking on the role in an article in the London Free Press.FacebookTwitterLinkedin
Dr. Robert Ventresca, Interim Academic Dean and papal scholar, offers his thoughts in the Catholic Register on a new book by David Kertzer, The Pope at War: The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini and Hitler, which discusses the role Pope Pius XII played in World War II and the Holocaust.FacebookTwitterLinkedin
Dr. Jacquetta Newman, Professor of Politics and International Relations, told CTV News that holding political office takes a lot more effort than many people may think as part of a news story about London Mayor Ed Holder announcing his retirement.FacebookTwitterLinkedin
Dr. Jonathan Geen, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, lent his expertise to a CBC article on how the banning of the swastika might affect those who use the Hindu swastik symbol for religious expressionFacebookTwitterLinkedin