Institute for Science, Society and Policy

The ISSP is delighted to invite you to a talk by Michael Carolan, Professor of Sociology and Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Affairs for the College of Liberal Arts at the Colorado State University and the 2019 - 2020 Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Science and Society at the ISSP.

In this lecture, Professor Carolan will argue that food holds the potential to suspend partisanship, bigotry, and anxiety, affording opportunities to engender understanding and even empathy with those from opposing political tribes. 

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The ISSP is delighted to invite you to a talk by Professor Stefanie Haustein, Faculty Affiliate, ISSP and Assistant Professor, Department of Information Studies, Faculty of Arts, uOttawa.

In this lecture, Professor Haustein will introduce you to social network analysis in the context of metadata of scholarly publications and will demonstrate how rich network data can be used to showcase collaborations and indicate one’s standing in the scholarly community in a more accurate and complete way than simple indicators such as the h-index or the number of citations.

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