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This open event, hosted by The Canadian Association of Research Libraries and co-sponsoring organizations including Canadian Research Knowledge Network, Library and Archives Canada, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec, Internet Archive Canada, Digital Research Alliance of Canada, and the Digital Preservation Coalition provided an opportunity for those at Canadian institutions who have strategic or operational responsibility for long-term access and preservation of digital content to learn from each other about progress, practices and policies for digital preservation in a Canadian context.
Academic Writing Resources and Research 4
The University of Alberta provides a variety of writing supports that are accessible, learner-centered, relevant, and responsive to the community's diverse needs.
ACCES Research Group 10
The Alberta Continuing Care Epidemiological Studies (ACCES) was a province-wide research program involving over 2,000 older adults residing in designated assisted/supportive living facilities (DAL) and in long-term care facilities (LTC) between 2006 and 2009, their family caregivers, and the facilities in which they lived. The objectives of ACCES were: a) to examine the health, social needs, and quality of care of older adults in DAL and LTC facilities in Alberta, b) to identify the mix of services provided to these residents, including assistance from family caregivers, and c) to examine health outcomes across settings, taking resident and facility characteristics into account.
Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science, Department of 557
The Department of Agricultural, Food, and Nutritional Science offers thesis programs leading to Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees, as well as course-based programs leading to Master of Agriculture, Master of Engineering and Master of Science degrees. The Department has active research programs in the following areas of specialization: Animal Science, Plant Science, Food Science and Technology, Nutrition and Metabolism, Bioresource and Food Engineering, Rangeland and Wildlife Resources and Bioresource Technology
Agricultural, Life, and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of 37
The Faculty of ALES is where global challenges are met with innovative solutions. Every day, world-class research is conducted by the finest minds in the natural sciences, social sciences and business. While we are one of the oldest faculties on campus, our cross disciplinary approach, and commitment to excellence, positions us uniquely to provide solutions to some of the world’s most complex problems.

Recent Submissions

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The Hill Times, Monday, January 12, 2026
(2026-01-12) Hill Times Publishing
The newspaper of Parliament.
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The Great Canadian Class Study (GCCS): Rethinking Social Class in the 21st Century
(2025-10-16) Maroto, Michelle; BayatRizi, Zohreh; Durou, Guillaume
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The Forest - Where We Belong
(2026-01-07) Oh, Eunna
My artistic practice centers on forest landscapes that bridge imagination and reality, embodying the sublimity of life’s perpetual cycle: birth, decay, and renewal. As a mother of two children, I also understand the forest as a womb-like space that nurtures all forms of life. For me, the forest is not only the root of existence but also a partner with whom we share life. This maternal perspective deepens my conviction that the forest is a place of belonging, resilience, and healing. As a Canadian artist who immigrated from South Korea, I am deeply influenced by the traditional Korean worldview that all living beings of the forest–along with inanimate elements such as rocks, soil, and water–possess spirits. Within this belief, the forest is honored as a sacred site of healing. This philosophy closely resonates with the Cree worldview in Canada, which emphasizes the interconnectedness of all life and recognizes that the forest as a living, spiritual being endowed with life-giving forces (see note 1). Note 1: Debora, McGregor. “Indigenous Knowledge in Sustainable Forest Management Community-based Approaches Achieve Greater Success,” The Forestry Chronicle, 2002, 833-835
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The World to Come
(2026-01-07) McSweeney, Olivia Arau
The World to Come is about the ever-changing nature of gardens and the many ways they evoke the human condition. This work reckons with the darkness of gardens as colonial symbols of control and human supremacy over nature, and sees their potential as sites for collective reimagining. Within the garden lie a myriad of contradictions: labor and rest, growth and decay, hope and despair, all which seem to pull at each other in opposite directions, but we know them together intimately and we experience their coexistence in our daily lives. My lived experience serves as my primary material for generating this work. I am inspired by everyday moments of walking, photographing my surroundings, and engaging and conversing with my community. Who I am and the place I make from seeps into everything. I live on Treaty Six territory, a traditional gathering place for diverse Indigenous peoples including the Cree, Saulteaux/Anishinaabe, Blackfoot, Métis, Nakota Sioux, Dene, Inuit, and others. By situating myself in this way, at this particular place and at this particular time, I reckon with the current historical moment we live in. I ask myself what it means to create art at this moment in time, connecting art to a practice of the every day, and using that as a tool to find enchantment in the face of catastrophe and to learn about the world. A garden may seem like a small thing when trying to navigate our apocalyptic times, but at its best, it is a reminder that caring for the world means caring deeply for ourselves, our communities, and the ecosystems we are a part of. Through printmaking, drawing, installation, and sculpture I turn my studio into a place to transform my own experiences of grappling with the beauty and the pain at the heart of the story of the garden. Although I did not execute the entirety of my thesis using printmaking, I am enamored by the indirect, layered ways it allows me to create. The very nature of the process –its physical qualities of repetition and reversal, amongst others– provided me with a framework for making. Drawing from real and imagined gardens –from Milton’s Paradise Lost, to the lavish palace gardens of empire, to memories of my childhood home’s garden, to visits to local gardens and their gardeners– I’ve come to see history, land, stewardship, and power all contained within. The whole world is here in the garden.
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Leadership in Kenyan Public Universities: Structural Forces and Transformative Futures
(2025-12-22) Ngao, Shadrack
The paper employs a qualitative desktop research approach and adopts Baldridge’s Political model framework, drawing on the regulatory framework established by the University’s Act No. 42 of 2012 to examine how structural forces, such as political interference, shape university leadership and governance. The analysis suggests that leadership challenges are mainly driven by deep-rooted systemic factors such as ongoing political interference in appointments of key leaders, overlapping regulatory roles, university chronic underfunding by government, and uneven digital infrastructure. These dynamics undermine institutional independence, weaken leadership and governance, and make conflict a standard aspect of university operations. The paper recommends transparent and merit-based appointment processes, streamlined regulatory coordination among key oversight institutions, sustainable public funding of universities, and enhanced digital governance capacities. Additionally, it advocates for adoption of ethical, and adaptive leadership practices to advance gender equity, digital justice, and socially responsive university leadership and governance.