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Professor Pat Armstrong's long-term residential healthcare study looks to improve national and international conditions

Posted on 10 June 2010

In Sweden, long-term care workers often have time to take patients outside for a walk. In Canada, having a patient shuffle from their room down the corridor to the dining hall is frequently considered “a walk”. It is this kind of difference in the nature of long-term care facilities from one country to the next that has […]

Professors Armstrong and Greenberg to be named Distinguished Research Professors

Posted on 20 May 2010

This year, York is honouring sociology and women’s studies Professor Pat Armstrong and psychology Professor Leslie Greenberg with its highest award, Distinguished Research Professor, for their outstanding contributions to the University through research. The title will be conferred on Armstrong at the Spring 2010 Convocation on June 16 at 10:30am and on Greenberg during the […]

Health Policy & Management professors address health, health care and illness prevention in Canada & US

Posted on 21 April 2010

Four years after it was first published, a second edition of the book Staying Alive: Critical Perspectives on Health, Illness, and Health Care has just been published, providing a fresh perspective on health, health care and illness. Co-edited by York School of Health Policy & Management Professors Dennis Raphael and Marcia Rioux, along with University of […]

Long-term residential healthcare project covered in Ottawa Sun

Posted on 31 March 2010

Pat Armstrong, professor of sociology in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies and an executive member of both the York Institute for Health Research and the Graduate Program in Health Policy & Equity, recently received $2.5 million from the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada to lead a study to identify […]

York leads all Canadian universities in SSHRC’s largest awards

Posted on 23 March 2010

York researchers awarded two of SSHRC’s largest grants to study long-term residential healthcare and global suburbanism Two teams led by York University researchers have received $5 million in research funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). Their multinational research teams, involving multiple universities and community partners in a large-scale collaboration, […]

Want the lastest York Research news? Follow us on Twitter

Posted on 9 March 2010

Follow York Research on Twitter for information about York researchers, research findings, and funding announcements. You don't need to have a Twitter account to read the posts. Some York research centres and departments are also tweeting, including: Institute for Research and Innovation in Sustainability (IRIS) Researchimpact, York's knowledge mobilization unit York Institute for Health Research […]