Fellows Feature: Aida Parnia & Regan Johnston
The fourth cohort fellows of the CAnD3 program contains a wide range of disciplines and backgrounds. Through our Fellows Features, we aim to showcase these interests and offer insight into their passion through creating inclusive spaces and capturing their unique experiences within the CAnD3 program.
Fellows Feature: Carlos A. Ramirez Hernandez & Bertram Melix
There is much to look forward to heading into the second half of the 2023-24 CAnD3 training year. Our Fellows will start 2024 with a discussion of recent advances in digital demography and explore topics like adaptive policymaking, loneliness trajectories of older adults, and social media analysis in the next six months.
Fellows Feature: Megan Skowronski & Bavisha Thurairajah
The first half of the 2023-24 training year has officially wrapped up. Over the past four months, our 22 CAnD3 Fellows have completed a total of 15 training sessions on topics ranging from research replicability and data ethics to discussions about the latest population analytics research and time management. We caught up with two of our Fellows, Megan and Bavisha, to ask about their experiences with the CAnD3 program thus far.
Fellows Feature: Stephen Ogbodo & Tara Henry
The 2023-24 CAnD3 Fellow cohort is composed of 22 accomplished individuals competitively selected from our partner higher education institutions. The new cohort comes from diverse backgrounds, with eight in master’s programs, 13 in PhD programs, and one completing postdoctoral training. They bring a range of disciplinary training from political science and geography to gerontology and medicine.
Fellows Feature: Maria Ahmed & Chris Borst
The fourth year of the Population Analytics in an Aging Society Training Program held its kick-off on September 6th. The 22 accomplished Fellows who compose the 2023-24 cohort were competitively selected from CAnD3’s (Consortium on Analytics for Data-Driven Decision-Making) partner higher education institutions.
Postdoctoral Positions : Understanding and Supporting Quality of Work Life in Long-term Care (LTC)
The purpose of the An Underrepresented, Undervalued Workforce: Understanding and Supporting Quality of Work Life in Long-term Care research project is to build evidence for the Atlantic Canadian long-term care sector to better understand, support and manage the Atlantic LTC workforce. The investigators want to understand how staff work changes their health and wellbeing and how they give residents the best quality of care.
Fellows Feature: Shannon Mok & Khandideh Williams
As we enter March, recruitment is now in full swing at CAnD3. We invite interested students to join our recruitment informational session to hear directly about the program from Fellows and staff! You can also get to know more about the Fellows' experience by reading through their features!
Fellows Feature: Rebecca Stewart, Pratik Mahajan & Kate Marr-Laing
As we enter April, there are only three months left in the 2023-24 training program. This month, the Fellows will be diving into Machine Learning as well as starting to prepare for the annual CAnD3 Dragon's Den competition! It's inspiring to see their growth and accomplishments unfold as they continue through the training program.
2022-23 CAnD3 Annual Report is published to celebrate the halfway point of the $2.5M SSHRC Partnership Grant
The 2022-23 academic year marked the halfway point of the $2.5M Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Partnership Grant that formed CAnD3. We reflect on our successes and progress so far and look ahead to doing more to support capacity-building in data-driven decision-making.
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Research highlight: Unique challenges of Canada’s North require unique fiscal arrangements | Fellow Christopher Yurris
2022-23 CAnD3 Fellow Christopher Yurris recently co-authored a piece in Policy Options on fiscal federalism in Canada’s three territories.
Research Highlight: County-level opioid prescribing is largely shaped by healthcare availability | 2021-22 Fellow Feinuo Sun
2021-22 CAnD3 Fellow Feinuo Sun recently published her first dissertation paper in Social Science & Medicine. This is among the first studies examining the opioid crisis in the U.S. from a spatiotemporal perspective. The paper examines how rurality impacts the prescription of opioids across U.S. counties, using a spatiotemporal dataset (2006-2018) from a variety of national data sources, such as the U.S.
Research Highlight: Better satisfaction with aging could improve health and well-being | 2021-22 Fellow Julia Nakamura
New research from 2021-22 CAnD3 Fellow Julia Nakamura and colleagues finds that higher satisfaction with aging could lead to improved health and well-being outcomes.
Social Networks and Social Media Use of Older Adults | 2021-22 Fellow Sofia Gil-Clavel
2021-22 CAnD3 Fellow Sofia Gil-Clavel recently published her second dissertation paper on whether older adults use social media to maintain friendships. Using data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) and Facebook, the paper found that digital relationships may compensate for the lack of offline social networks among older migrants.
Fellow Daniel Tingskou Wins 2021 Jack Boan Student Essay Competition
2020-21 CAnD3 fellow Daniel Tingskou' s winning submission to the 2021 Jack Boan Student Essay Competition explores the effects of a 2005 Ontario tax policy on the interprovincial migration of physicians in Canada.
Memory disorders and their spouse carers on influencing formal care | Mari Aaltonen & Anne Martin-Matthews
Experiences of people with memory disorders and their spouse carers on influencing formal care: “They ask my wife questions that they should ask me”
