Visiting Speaker - DR. PETER WARRIAN

The Department of Sociology is pleased to present

DR. PETER WARRIAN

THE CHANGING SOCIOLOGY OF KNOWLEDGE IN THE STEEL INDUSTRY

Thursday, November 24, 2011

1:00 p.m.

Togo Salmon Hall 719

ALL ARE WELCOME TO ATTEND!!

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Dr. Peter Warrian

Senior Research Fellow, Munk School for Global Affairs, University of Torontoa former Research Director of the United Steelworkers of America and Chief Economist of the Province of Ontario.

The famous business historian Alfred Chandler (1962) observed that steel was the only major industry not to have adapted the multi-divisional (M) model for the modern corporation. Steel retained a unitary, hierarchical structure of authority, skill and knowledge flows. It meant that steel companies only learned what their engineers learned. The ownership change in recent years means that Canadian steel management must now adapt to new global steel HR norms, best practices and knowledge flows.

Stress Management Workshop

The TA Network is presenting an interesting workshop on Tuesday October 11th at 10:00-11:00 in KTH 712. Jennifer Meister (Academic Skills Program Coordinator from the Student Success Centre) will be speaking on Time and Stress Management. This is a workshop useful to all students - even if you are not a TA!

Jennifer will be offering numerous tips and pieces of advice to get you motivated, keep you organized, and balance your time. We encourage everyone to attend.

Ironically, we all seem to "have no time" and have "too much stress" to attend these workshops. We're really hoping that you all come out to this workshop, as the goal is to teach you how to prioritize your time, and minimize your stress - the excuses "I had no time" and "I was too stressed" cannot be an excuse for missing this workshop!

See you on Tuesday!

Welcome to Dr. Jeffrey Denis

The Department extends a warm welcome to our new faculty member Dr. Jeffrey Denis.

As a social psychologist, Dr. Denis' areas of interest and research include race and ethnic relations, social inequality and health. He is currently four major research projects concerning Aboriginal issues. Dr. Denis received his PhD from Harvard University and has already co-edited a book entitled "Survival Strategies: The Life, Death, and Renaissance of a Canadian Teaching Hospital" published with Canadian Scholars Press. Welcome Dr. Denis to the Dept!

Our New ABDs!

Congratulations to our new ABD PhD Students:

John McLevey

Dissertation Title: "Intellectual Interventions and Field Overlap: A Study of Canadian Think Tanks and Their Researchers"

Allyson Stokes- McLevey

Dissertation Title: "Time, Work-Family "Balance," and Inequality: Comparing Service and Creative Workers in the Field of Fashion."

Michelle Gilbert

Dissertation Title: "Female Participation in Equestrian Sport: Gender Roles, Social Spaces, and Interspecies Relations"

Pay attention to the ongoing and rolling list of students to come!