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Honours Conference 2013
Applied Behaviour Analysis: The Places it Can Go
The psychology department at UNB Fredericton is pleased to announce that Holly Seniuk will present a colloquium entitled "Applied Behaviour Analysis: The Places it Can Go".
The colloquium will take place on Monday, April 15, at 2:30 p.m. in Keirstead Hall, Room 105. Refreshments will be served. All are welcome.
Exploring methods and findings from research with street youth in Canada and Guatemala
Dr. Jeff Karabanow, Professor of the School of Social Work at Dalhousie University, will be presenting a colloquium entitled, “Stories from the field: Exploring methods and findings from research with street youth in Canada and Guatemala”.
The colloquium will take place Friday, April 12, at 3:30 p.m. in Keirstead Hall's Snodgrass Lounge, Room 105. Refreshments will be served. All are welcome and encouraged to attend!
Stories from the field: Exploring methods and findings from research with street youth in Canada and Guatemala
The discussion will center around several of Dr. Karabanow's Canadian and Guatemalan research projects that have focused upon street youth experiences on and off the street. Key findings will be highlighted along with some discussion to the unique methodologies that have fused community based research with arts based productions.
Bio:
Dr. Jeff Karabanow is a professor of Social Work at Dalhousie University in the Faculty of Health Professions. He is also cross-appointed with International Development Studies, College of Sustainability and The School of Health and Human Performance. He has worked with homeless young people in Toronto, Montreal, Halifax, and Guatemala. He has published numerous academic articles about housing stability, service delivery systems, street health, and homeless youth culture. He has completed a film documentary looking at the plight of street youth in Guatemala City and several animated shorts on Canadian street youth culture. His most recent works include: a HRSDC-funded investigation concerning street youth and their engagement in formal and informal economies; a CMHC-funded report on young mothers’ supportive housing structure in Nova Scotia; a SSHRC-funded longitudinal study of young people’s sense of identity, community, and health once they are no longer homeless; a HRSDC study looking at rural-urban migration of Nova Scotian street youth; and a recently released book entitled Leaving the Streets: Stories of Canadian Youth, published in 2010 by Fernwood Publishing.
Sex Differences in Cognitive Abilities: New Data, New Theories, New Conclusions
Dr. Diane Halpern, McElwee Family Professor of Psychology and George Roberts Fellow at Claremont McKenna College, will be presenting a colloquium entitled, “Sex Differences in Cognitive Abilities: New Data, New Theories, New Conclusions”.
The colloquium will take place Tuesday, March 19, at 3:30 p.m. in Keirstead Hall's Snodgrass Lounge, Room 105 (This colloquium will be in addition to her Pacey Lecture the following day.). Refreshments will be served. All are welcome and encouraged to attend!
One of the most controversial topics in psychology is how, how much, and why females and males differ in some cognitive abilities. Surf through television channels, lurk on blogging sites, leaf through magazines, and peruse the scientific and scholarly journals--it won't be long before you come across a joke, an outrage, or a serious discussion about the similarities and differences between men and women. The topic is probably as old as humankind and as new as this morning's news. Yet, it continues to fascinate and confound us. The "truth" about cognitive sex differences is complicated, and although there are many similarities in the cognitive abilities of males and females, there are also differences that are very large, and have been replicated across time, cultures, and species. How can we make sense of the large and often contradictory data about cognitive sex differences, and even more importantly, how can we use these data appropriately and guard against their misuse in formulating public policies? In answering these questions, I will describe new data related to cognitive sex differences and provide a unique perspective on new theories designed to explain why females and males differ in their average performance on some, but not all, cognitive measures.
Colloquium: What can NVivo, a qualitative data analysis computer software package, do for me?
Dr. Lynne Gouliquer, Feb. 15 at 3:30 pm in Keirstead Hall's Snodgrass Lounge, Room 105.
NVivo is a computer program that helps in the analysis of many types of qualitative data including: interview transcripts, open-ended survey responses, literature reviews, audio/video recordings, pictures and web pages. It is applicable to many approaches (e.g., focus groups, in-depth interviews, content analysis, ethnography, & evaluation). This presentation will introduce you to the basics of NVivo and its potential usefulness.
The Use of Scientific Inscriptions in Criminology and Criminal Justice Journals: An Analysis of Publication Trends between 1985 and 2009
Dr. Claire Goggin of the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at STU will present a colloquium entitled, "The Use of Scientific Inscriptions in Criminology and Criminal Justice Journals: An Analysis of Publication Trends between 1985 and 2009".
The colloquium will take place Friday, January 11, at 3:30 p.m. in Keirstead Hall's Snodgrass Lounge, Room 105. Refreshments will be served. All are welcome and encouraged to attend!
The Use of Scientific Inscriptions in Criminology and Criminal Justice Journals: An Analysis of Publication Trends between 1985 and 2009
Existing research has documented a hierarchy among the sciences, distinguishing social sciences as “softer” than their physical counterparts. Differences in data integration and analysis may underlie this distinction. “Hard” sciences place more emphasis on non-inferential strategies (i.e., scientific inscriptions). As a social science, criminology and criminal justice has struggled to integrate its principal constituencies: the analytical and experimental. By consequence, its general research record has been hindered. One means of addressing this limitation is to embrace the inscription techniques which “hard” sciences have used to good effect in cumulating knowledge. To that end, the use of scientific inscriptions (i.e., graphs and tables) in 397 randomly-selected articles published between 1985 and 2009 in 16 Criminology and Criminal Justice journals was examined and compared with that of other scientific disciplines, both “hard” and “soft”. Less than 10% of page space was devoted to data presentation (i.e., graphs plus tables) with no evidence of variation across the 25 year study period. When compared with other sciences, inscription usage in criminology and criminal justice journals falls between psychology and sociology. Researchers in the field are advised to increase their use of inscription techniques in order to bolster the impact of their research results.
