In a , Prof. Skyler Wang and an interdisciplinary team of researchers introduced a state-of-the-art multilingual and multitasking model capable of translating and transcribing across speech and text in 100 languages.
By making their work open-source, they empower researchers to expand language coverage and enhance translation quality in future language technologies. This pioneering contribution lays the foundation for achieving a universal speech translator.
We are thrilled to announce that Maria Lima, a fellow from our 2022-2023 cohort, has published a new research article under the supervision of Professor Neeru Gupta from the University of New Brunswick and James Ayles from the Government of New Brunswick, both valued partners of CAnD3. This exemplary partnership stemmed from a CAnD3 internship. CAnD3 takes pride in providing fellows with valuable internship opportunities, and we are pleased to witness the application of the skills acquired during our training program.聽聽
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.
We caught up with two of our Fellows, Aida and Regan, to ask about their experiences with the CAnD3 program thus far. Read on to learn about their research and what they hope to achieve during the remainder of the program and beyond.
CAnD3 is pleased to share the latest visualization publication 鈥淭ime Use on Housework in Canada: Persistence and Patterns鈥� published by Kamila Kolpashnikova, Zilin Li, and Am茅lie Quesnel-Vall茅e, that presents daily time use on housework in Canada. The study enhances understanding of housework participation from a daily time-use perspective.聽
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聽recent advances in digital demography聽and explore topics like adaptive policymaking, loneliness trajectories of older adults, and social media analysis in the next six months. They will also be producing their portfolios, Dragons' Den data visualizations, and policy briefs.聽
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. Read on to learn about their research and what they hope to achieve during the remainder of the program and beyond.
The 2023-24 CAnD3 Fellow cohort is composed of 22 accomplished individuals competitively selected from our聽partner higher education institutions. The new cohort comes from diverse backgrounds, with eight in master鈥檚 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.
The fourth year of the聽Population Analytics in an Aging Society Training Program聽held its kick-off on September 6th. The 22 accomplished Fellows who compose the 2023-24 cohort were competitively selected from CAnD3鈥檚 (Consortium on Analytics for Data-Driven Decision-Making)聽partner higher education institutions.
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.
As we enter March, recruitment is now in full swing at CAnD3. We invite interested students to join聽our recruitment informational session聽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!聽聽
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.
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.聽We reflect on our successes and progress so far and look ahead to doing more to support capacity-building in data-driven decision-making.
In May 2023, Prof. Jennifer Elrick began her appointment as Chair in Multiculturalism at 香蕉视频. The Chair, which is endowed with funds from the Government of Canada, was first established in 1995 as the Chair in Canadian Ethnic Studies. Its purpose remains to support research on issues of diversity and multiculturalism.
Congratulations to PhD student in Sociology and Richard H. Tomlinson Doctoral Fellow at 香蕉视频聽Gabriel L茅vesque, who has been awarded the聽PSSM Best Student Paper award for 2023 in the Political Sociology and Social Movements cluster for his paper titled "Toxic Substance Regulations and the Structuration of Interdependent Policy Networks".
Congratulations to the following graduate students in the Sociology PhD program:
Michaela Michalopulos has been awarded the Vasileios Tsiolis Foundation Award from the Hellenic Scholarships Foundation.
