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The Faculty of Arts is home to one of the most multidisciplinary academic communities on campus. From neuroscience, through ancient languages to choreography and music and drama composition, our researchers and students lead critical and creative research inquiry that engages communities and fosters innovation, leadership and creative practice. Composed of 12 departments and two schools, our faculty fosters a culture of critical and creative inquiry, debate, imagination, discovery and entrepreneurial thinking. Our vision for energizing arts is to engage, inspire, discover. Continue reading to find out more about research in the Faculty of Arts.
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Smartphone and Social Media Addiction: Exploring the perceptions and experiences of Canadian teenagers
(Wiley, Arts, Sociology, University of Calgary, Memorial University of Newfoundland, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/1755618x/homepage/fundedaccess.html, acceptedVersion, 2021-02)‘Addiction’ to internet-connected technology continues to dominate media discourses of young people. Researchers have identified negative outcomes, including decreased mental health, resulting from anxieties related not ... -
Parental Technology Governance: Teenagers’ understandings and responses to parental digital mediation
(University of Lodz, Arts, Sociology, University of Calgary, Memorial University of Newfoundland, McGill University, http://www.qualitativesociologyreview.org/ENG/open_access_policy.php, acceptedVersion, 2022-04)Research on parental mediation of children’s online engagements situate historically longstanding anxieties within the dynamics of present-day information communications technologies (i.e., concerns over new ‘cyber risks’ ... -
La perspectiva figural: La relación entre personaje y perspectiva narrativa según el modelo de Wolf Schmid
(Arts, School of Languages, Linguistics, Literatures and Cultures, University of Calgary, Universidad de Buenos Aires, publishedVersion, 2022-03)Si bien el interés de la narratología en los personajes literarios ha sido, históricamente, acotado y funcional, siempre tuvo el personaje una posición más relevante en los estudios sobre perspectiva narrativa. Esto lo ... -
Mitigating the Physical Barriers of a Post-Secondary Education: Accessible Mobility Mapping and Rollshed Analysis for Vancouver Island University
(Arts, Graduate Studies, Geography, University of Calgary, 2020-07)This project provided the Vancouver Island University (VIU) Nanaimo campus with a detailed accessible mobility (AM) map and rollshed and routing analysis. The VIU campus consists of numerous steep pedestrian pathways that ... -
Resettling Yazidi Refugee Families in Calgary by Calgary Catholic Immigration Society (CCIS): A Home Assessment Qualitative Report 2020-21
(Arts, Sociology, 2022-03-25)The following report is a summary of the results of a larger research project on the resettlement of Yazidi refugees in Calgary as part of Canada’s humanitarian response to the ISIS-led genocide in Iraq. This study is in ... -
Greater variability in rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta) endocranial volume among males
(Arts, Anthropology & Archaelogy, New York University, Section on Developmental Neurogenomics at the National Institute of Health, New York Consortium of Evolutionary Primatology, University of Calgary, 2022-03)The greater male variability hypothesis posits that males exhibit more physical and behavioral variability than females. This pattern is observed across mammalian species and is especially pronounced in sexually selected ... -
Relationship between food security and dietary diversity in Nicaraguan households
(Arts, Anthropology & Archaelogy, University of Calgary, The Ohio State University, 2022-03-23)In 2020, nearly one-in-three people globally lacked access to adequate food; that is, they were food insecure. Food insecurity (FI) has four dimensions – availability, access, utilization, and stability – and is linked to ... -
The Virtual Child, or Six Provocations on Children’s Literature and (Pre-) Digital Culture
(John's Hopkins University Press, Arts, English, University of Calgary, publishedVersion, 2021-01)Anxieties about children and the virtual might feel unique to the digital age, but as this essay clarifies, a longer, pre-digital history of “the virtual child” demonstrates that the child itself has long been “virtual,” ... -
The Burgeoning Field of Gender, Work & Organization: Some thoughts on the 6th Biennial International Conference of the journal Gender, Work and Organisation (GWO2010)
(Arts, Sociology, University of Calgary, 2012-02-06)In the last twenty years, the Gender, Work, and Organization (GWO) Journal has made a significant contribution towards advancing the field of social science inquiry. As the GWO journal has grown in institutional strength, ... -
Toll of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Primary Caregiver in Yazidi Refugee Families in Canada: A Feminist Refugee Epistemological Analysis
(Brock University, Arts, Sociology, University of Calgary, Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis, https://journals.library.brocku.ca/index.php/SSJ/about/submissions#authorGuidelines, publishedVersion, 2022-01)Existing discourse on refugee resettlement in the West is rife with imperialist and neoliberal allusions. Materially, this discourse assumes refugees as passive recipients of resettlement programs in the host country denying ...