Crafty Etsy. Duffy effect. Social media and schooling. Personality of fingers. Re-educative approach.

The scholarly work of Concordia faculty and researchers informs and improves society on many issues that affect our daily lives. Visit the Research section to read news stories involving research at Concordia, or read the most recent items here:   

• Research Associate, part-time instructor in the Department of Communication Studies and alumna Jacqueline Wallace is featured in an article in the Montreal Gazette about Etsy, the popular online craft marketplace, and the company's stock market launch. Wallace researched Etsy for her PhD thesis in Communications. The article is reprised by the Ottawa Citizen.
• The Winnipeg Free Press publishes an article in which Mebs Kanji, associate professor in the Department of Political Science and Kerry Tannahill, a doctoral candidate in the department, analyze how the Mike Duffy affair may have impacted the public's trust in the political process. Kanji and Tannahill present survey data they collected among Quebecers in the months following the suspensions of Duffy, Pamela Wallin and Patrick Brazeau from the Senate. 
• Vancouver Desi, Business Standard and DaijiWorld.com write about Concordia research by Juan Carlos Castro, assistant professor in the Department of Art Education and alumnus Martin Lalonde, outlined in the book Youth Practices in Digital Arts and New Media, about how social media may be used to help keep at-risk youth in school.
• An article in the South China Morning Post about research into what finger size may reveal about men mentions a 2010 Concordia study into how personality traits in men correlated with their finger lengths. The research was led by marketing professor Gad Saad. 
• Springer Link posts an abstract for a study from Concordia's Department of Applied Human Sciences,  titled "A Normative Re-Educative Approach to Youthwork Education" and led by Varda Mann-Feder, professor and Graduate Program Director in the Department of Applied Human Sciences and Bluma Litner, professor in the department.

 More Researchers in the news