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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.

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Mapping resources onto a dynamic landscape: The renewal of archaeological survey at Humayma, southern Jordan
(2025-02-01) Harvey, Craig
A desert is filled with life if one knows where to look, but to most of those visiting the ancient rock-cut city of Petra and the surrounding deserts of southern Jordan, this arid landscape appears inhospitable and devoid of the resources necessary to sustain human life. Yet, this region was (and still is) home to communities that thrived in spite of environmental limitations and resource scarcity. While 21st century settlements have access to modern technology and global supply networks, those living in this region in antiquity developed innovative and sustainable ways to extract and utilize local resources. The careful study of these ancient techniques not only holds the promise to reshape our understanding of the economic development and resilience of these past societies but also provide lessons for sustainable future development of this region in the face of climate change. This proposed feasibility study uses the archaeological site of Humayma (located 45 km south of Petra) as a case study to explore human-environmental interactions in southern Jordan between the 1st century BCE and the 8th century CE, with a particular focus on resource extraction and industrial activities in the Roman period (2nd to 6th centuries CE).
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How do classroom interactions matter for children's emerging self-regulation and academic skills?
(2024-09-27) Hoglund, Wendy
Self-regulatory and learning problems continue to be among the leading social and educational concerns confronting young children in Canada. Globally, researchers have observed an alarming increase in self-regulatory and learning problems among children in the early school years, a trend that has worsened since 2020. Scholars and advocates have argued that this trend is particularly worrisome for socially and economically marginalized children, including children from low-income households, racialized and newcomer children, and neurodivergent children. Inclusive, supportive and responsive interactions among teachers and children in the classroom may confer a source of protection for children's self-regulation and academic learning. These interactions can occur at the classroom-level to reflect the average experience of all children and at a dyadic-level between teachers and individual children, and can vary across days and months. This research will have immediate implications for educational policy and practice. By capturing how supportive, responsive interactions between teachers and children unfold in the classroom this research will identify malleable targets to change the academic trend for socially and economically marginalized children. Developing a community of practice of inclusive, responsive instructional strategies is one path to support the academic resiliency of our most marginalized children.
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New developments in police surveillance: care vs control?
(2024-10-01) Haggerty, Kevin
The police in Canada face concerted political pressure to renounce coercive forms of monitoring and control. Advocates are instead calling for policing with a social service orientation attentive to the root causes of crime and the immediate social service needs of individuals who are heavily involved in the criminal legal system. Police organizations have consequently introduced new units where officers coordinate with social workers to support criminally involved individuals. Such initiatives position program participants in a surveillance situation comprised of diverse forms of personal, technological, and bureaucratic monitoring. In combination, such developments can be understood as a policing strategy deploying surveillance for agendas situated on a continuum between care and control. This research focuses on developing a concrete appreciation for contemporary dynamics in surveillance and policing as it pertains to a highly criminalized and often vulnerable segment of the population. It entails a dual focus on a) advancing a theoretically informed appreciation for how individuals in this program experience diverse forms of surveillance (research question #1) and b) understanding how this program manages any tensions or contradictions between fulfilling care and control mandates (research question #2).
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Resettlement: Japanese Canadians in the post-World War II era
(2024-10-01) Fujiwara, Aya
Although there exists considerable scholarship on the history of Japanese Canadian internment during World War II, the complex social conditions of their resettlement after World War II remain unexplored. This project rectifies the lack of knowledge of how Japanese Canadians rebuilt their lives as internally displaced persons. The study of this resettlement phase is significant. First, it fully assesses the negative impact of forceful relocation and state violence on every aspect of Japanese Canadians beyond the war era. Second, it urges us to respond better publicly and academically to the current refugee crisis due to invasions, conflicts, and racial cleansing through history-informed education, reflecting past racist policies and deepening the public awareness of challenges in human right projection. The objective of this project is to shed light on this underexplored social aspect in post-World War II Japanese Canadian resettlement by addressing (1) how Japanese Canadians rebuilt their economic, religious, cultural, and social life after World War II (2) how gender, race, class, and ethnicity affected their opportunities for employment and education (3) how Japanese Canadians participated in the postwar economic structure as marginalized labourers.
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The teacher-AI value alignment problem: a postphenomenological investigation and critical AI literacy response
(2024-10-01) Adams, Catherine
The rapid integration of generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) technologies--such as ChatGPT and MidJourney--into K-12 education presents significant challenges related to value alignment (VA). The VA problem refers to the difficulty of ensuring that AI systems reflect human values, norms, and intentions. In educational settings, GenAI may reinforce biases, fabricate misinformation, promote cultural homogenization, marginalize local knowledge, overemphasize dominant teaching theories, and generate recommendations that conflict with curricular objectives and pedagogical goals. These issues are particularly pressing because teachers' values are not universal; they are shaped by personal experiences and aspirations, students' diverse needs, school priorities, community norms and professional responsibilities. Technical solutions like prompt engineering and AI bias detection offer partial remedies but may fail to address the nuanced and context-specific value misalignments teachers encounter. As a result, there is an urgent need to explore how teachers experience and navigate these misalignments to inform the ethical and pedagogical integration of GenAI in education. This research aims to advance knowledge by providing insight into the complex interactions between teachers and GenAI technologies.