FHASS and SRCA… again please!
The latest round of Scholarship, Research, and Creative Activities (SRCA) funding was allocated in February, and to no one’s surprise, FHASS names and projects were prominently on display! You can check out the announcement on Sheridan Central right… Read More
Jennifer Chambers gets the perfect Angle…
CW&P professor Dr. Jennifer Chambers–who also stands as the Member-at-Large (Colleges) of the Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE) has an article in the most recent issue of The Angle, the ACCUTE Newsletter for… Read More
Celebrating Exceptional FHASS Work on SOURCE
by Kathleen Oakey and Adam Duguay FHASS faculty continue to make significant contributions to SOURCE, Sheridan’s digital repository. Over the past year, we have been proud to highlight exemplary works from FHASS faculty on SOURCE, making them available… Read More
Prof. Nathaniel Barr on Creativity and the Survival of Higher Education
by Prof. Jennifer Phenix Dr. Nathaniel Barr (PhD University of Waterloo) is professor of Creativity and Creative Thinking in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, teaching courses within the Board Undergraduate Certificate in Creativity and Creative Problem… Read More
Prof. Kylie Hartley, Creative Ideation, and the SSU
Dr. Kylie Hartley is Professor of Psychology and Creativity in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, teaching courses within the Board Undergraduate Certificate in Creativity and Creative Problem Solving. In November 2020, Kylie had an interactive opportunity… Read More
ICYMI: Sara Cumming wins the 2020 Angus Reid Award
By Dr. Jessica Pulis, Associate Dean, Social and Life Sciences Sara Cumming is the 2020 recipient of the prestigious Angus Reid Practitioners Applied Sociology Award from the Canadian Sociological Association. This award recognizes the leading contribution of a… Read More
Prof. Glenn Clifton stays busy writing in / for the pandemic
Prof. Glenn Clifton (Literary Studies and Creative Writing) has been keeping busy during the pandemic. In addition to having a story published and participating in The Assembly Theatre’s 24 Hour Playwriting Challenge in the summer, he turned one… Read More
Spotlight on Research: Dr. Brett Potter on what Star Trek, sports, and movies can teach us about religion.
Dr. Brett Potter (PhD, University of St. Michael’s College) is a partial-load professor in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Sheridan, teaching world religions and the philosophy of religion. Over the past six years teaching in… Read More
FHASS’ Collaboration with Toronto Fringe
By Brittany German Prof. Brandon McFarlane (Creativity and Creative Thinking) has been busy this term! As Sheridan announced on November 5, McFarlane won a $240,000 Community & College Social Innovation Fund from SSHRC to bring Sheridan’s creative problem… Read More
Nathaniel Barr continues to find his Reasons
In a recently released chapter entitled “Why Reason Matters: Connecting Research on Human Reason to the Challenges of the Anthropocene,” Prof. Nathaniel Barr and his colleague Gordon Pennycook provide evidence to show why advancing and applying the study of… Read More
