President's message

Bringing you into the conversation

Concordia is committed to teaching and learning. It is also dedicated to research and creativity, to developing innovative approaches to advancing knowledge and to sharing these approaches with its community and the world at large.

We encourage big thinking beyond the walls of academia by facilitating open access to our research, and by forging community partnerships. We want our researchers to exchange their knowledge, expertise and ideas because it matters. This is one reason why Concordia’s research profile continues to rise in Canada and around the globe.

In this second annual edition of Beyond the Headlines, we present the highlights of five conversations between Concordia researchers and their contemporaries on topics that engaged the public’s imagination and sparked interest for further discussion.

These exchanges represent just a small part of the breadth of the big thinking that happens every day at Concordia and that has a beneficial impact on society — from understanding cancer to improving workplace productivity to creating the ideal conditions for childhood learning.

The discussions surrounding these topics are worth having and worth listening to as are the conversations examining the search for sustainable solutions to an aging urban infrastructure or the role of a city as a cultural expression of design and innovation.

I hope you enjoy this introduction to our headline-making researchers and encourage you to contribute to the dialogue by continuing the conversation online.

Alan Shepard
President and Vice-Chancellor