NEWS
The Visualizing Care Project is presenting at Canadian Sociological Association Conference in June 2026.
UBC Press has opened up preorders for Feminist Dream Labs: Practices for Caring Through Crises.
This edited collection contains some early field data from the Reimagining Public Safety project alongside texts from feminist artists, academics and community organizers. The book will be officially released in August, 2026!
CNET, interviewed Prof. Whynacht about changes to META’s parental surveillance options for youth who use AI-generated chat content and how it might impact youth mental health.
Prof. Whynacht presented work from the Moral Injury in Frontline Work report at the Basic Income Nova Scotia Annual Conference. You can learn more about their work here.
The Imagining Futures Project & Dr. Alex Khasnabish launched a Special Issue of Atlantis Journal: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture and Social Justice in fall, 2025. You can read the editorial introduction to “Liveable Futures: Radical Imagination as Method // Radical Imagination as Survival” here.
Congratulations to our doctoral student researcher, Isabella Gallant, in winning a SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship to support her doctoral research at Concordia! Her project “Reimagining the ‘Youth Mental Health Epidemic’ in Canada: Thinking Beyond Pathology to Co-Creating Liveable Futures with New Brunswick (NB) Youth and Communities” promises to be a high-impact project that reflects the needs of youth with lived experience in the Maritimes.
The Transformative Encounters Project has launched a new website and opened up recruitment for interviews! Find out more information here.
Congratulations to our undergraduate student researcher, Oliver VanBuskirk (Sociology), who won a 2026 Independent Student Research Grant to support his field research with 2SLGBTQiA+ youth who will be impacted by proposed social media bans.
The final report from the Moral Injury in the Helping Professions Symposium has been released! You can read and download a copy here.