October 2023

The Prentice Institute collaborates with researchers in Canada and elsewhere to address some of the most difficult challenges of the next generation and beyond.

Same Content, New Format

Beginning next month, in response to our communications survey, and to make the newsletter more digestible, we will be sending out 3 mini-newsletters: 

1. Institute News
2. Funding and Job Opportunities
3. News from Affiliates (Please submit items you would like shared with colleagues by the first Friday of every month: for the November newsletter, submission deadline is Nov 3)

For more content you can also check out the Prentice Institute's new and improved website at the link below!

New Internal Funding Opportunities from ORIS

• The University of Lethbridge Research Fund (ULRF) is an internal funding source aimed to support research activities in any discipline. The objective of the ULRF is to help researchers secure external funding, by providing seed money for new projects and to launch a program of research. DEADLINE: November 1, 2023.

• UL SSHRC Explore supports social sciences and humanities researchers' small-scale innovation and experimentation by providing funding to develop a research project or to conduct pilot work. DEADLINE: November 1, 2023 and June 1, 2024.

• UL SSHRC Exchange supports the organization of small-scale knowledge mobilization activities, such as workshops and seminars; publishing activities; and attendance or presentation of research at scholarly conferences and other dissemination venues. DEADLINE: rolling.

The Department of Indigenous Studies is sponsoring an Indigenous Women Speaker Series for the 2023-24 academic year.

The first speaker, Dr. Tina Taitano DeLisle, will present her talk titled: "Placental Politics: Rewriting Oceanic Histories of Embodied Land Work, Radical Relationalities, and Indigenous Feminism"

Thursday October 26, 6-8pm at the Galt Museum (free entrance).