In LA&PS, we understand that innovative research often requires work to build collaborations across various disciplines and perspectives. Our researchers demonstrate their commitment to advancing knowledge through many unique national and international partnerships. Connections to a wide range of research centres give LA&PS faculty members and graduate students the opportunity to participate in exciting, groundbreaking research across diverse disciplines.
Projects
Research Centres (Organized Research Units)
Global Labour Research Centre
The Global Labour Research Centre is a hub for pan-university research collaboration on work, employment and labour in the global economy, promoting research that engages with a wide range of labour and community partners.
Centre for Feminist Research
The Centre for Feminist Research/ Le centre de recherches f茅ministes promotes feminist activities and collaborative research at 快播视频 and works to establish research linkages between York scholars and local, national, international and transnational communities.
Israel and Golda Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies
The Centre for Jewish Studies at 快播视频 is Canada's first interdisciplinary research centre in Jewish Studies, bringing together a vibrant community of scholars and teachers to promote cutting-edge research in the field.
Centre for Refugee Studies
The Centre for Refugee Studies is an interdisciplinary community of researchers dedicated to advancing the well-being of refugees and others displaced by violence, persecution, human rights abuses, and environmental degradation through innovative research, education, and policy engagement.
Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLAC)
CERLAC is a 快播视频-based hub for inter- and multidisciplinary research on Latin America and the Caribbean, their diasporas, and their relations with Canada and the rest of the world.
The City Institute at York (CITY)
The City Institute at 快播视频 is an interdisciplinary institute that brings together over 60 of the university鈥檚 urban scholars and scores of graduate students from a variety of fields to provide new knowledge and develop innovative approaches to comprehending and addressing the complexity of the urban arena.
The Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on Africa and its Diasporas
The Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on Africa and its Diasporas is part of an international network of research centres dedicated to researching the forced and voluntary movement of African peoples around the world and overcoming the inequalities and injustices that are a result of slavery.
Institute for Social Research
The Institute for Social Research conducts, supports and disseminates interdisciplinary social research that uses survey, quantitative and mixed methods to focus on social problems, population and public health, mental health, public affairs, and the 快播视频 community.
LaMarsh Centre for Child and Youth Research
The LaMarsh Centre for Child and Youth Research is a collaborative group of faculty and students that supports community-engaged interdisciplinary research in health, education, relationships and development of infants, children, adolescents, emerging adults and families everywhere.
Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies
The Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies supports interdisciplinary and discipline-specific research of faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate student associates studying Canada and 鈥淐anada in the World.鈥
York Centre for Asian Research
York Centre for Asian Research is an interdisciplinary community of 快播视频 researchers who are committed to analyzing the changing historical and contemporary dynamics of societies in Asia, understanding Asia鈥檚 place in the world, and studying the experiences of Asian communities in Canada and around the globe.