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March 30, 2022
At Home in the North’s Dr. Rebecca Schiff is co-editing an upcoming special issue of Housing, Theory and Society entitled “Housing vulnerability reconsidered: Applications and implications for housing research, policy and practice”. Please see the attached call for papers. Abstracts are due May 31, 2022. Special Issue Call for Papers_Mar 29
December 16, 2021
This webinar was part two of a two-part series which featured presentations from student and post-doctoral researchers in the At Home in the North network. The speakers included Christina Goldhar, Aimee Pugsley, and Veronica Madsen, all of whom are based out of Memorial University of Newfoundland. Below is a summary of key points of their… Read More
December 16, 2021
This webinar was part one of a two-part series which featured presentations from student and post-doctoral researchers in the At Home in the North network. The speakers included Matthew Cosby and Muhammad Khan from the University of Alaska Anchorage, Susane Havelka from Memorial University of Newfoundland, and Hans Peter Mønsted from the University of Southern… Read More
December 16, 2021
Linda Larcombe is a trained anthropologist and received her PhD in Anthropology from the University of Manitoba. Her work focuses on First Nations history and health, cultural resource management, and understanding the socio-cultural and environmental factors contributing to infectious disease in First Nation populations. Read more here: AHIN community profile_linda larcombe
December 8, 2021
Stacey Fritz has a PhD in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and her doctoral thesis traced the legacies of the DEW Line in the western Arctic. She worked in public land management in the Arctic for 10 years, and is now at the National Renewable Energy Lab’s Cold Climate Housing Research Center… Read More
November 12, 2021
Bonnie Krysowaty is involved with numerous programs and initiatives related to housing, homelessness, and harm reduction in Thunder Bay, Ontario. She is the coordinator of the Poverty Reduction Strategy at the Lakehead Social Planning Council and manages the federal funding for homelessness initiatives through Reaching Home. She also manages the Out of the Cold program… Read More
November 2, 2021
On October 26, 2021 At Home in the North (AHIN) held a webinar entitled: Housing and COVID-19 in Thompson, where Colin Bonnycastle gave a presentation offering an update on the pandemic subproject funded by AHIN and led by members of AHIN from the Faculty of Social Work at the University of Manitoba. This research sought to… Read More
October 18, 2021
Travis is a cultural and medical anthropologist by training and is a faculty member in the Division of Population Health Sciences at the University of Alaska Anchorage. He is interested in applied health research, particularly issues of mental and behavioural health, housing and homelessness, fetal alcohol spectrum disorder and other disabilities, and community health. Read… Read More
October 7, 2021
AHIN’s fall newsletter is now available! The newsletter includes updates on the activities of each research direction, an article discussing our ongoing webinar series, and a series of news items and publications of interest to the partnership and anyone concerned by the state of northern housing and homelessness in Canada and beyond. Thank you to… Read More
September 21, 2021
At Home in the North is a research partnership within a Canada-wide collaboration of academics and community partners: The Collaborative Housing Research Network. The network is a joint initiative between the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). Collectively, we seek to fill knowledge gaps concerning northern… Read More