Atkinson Policy Research Network

Social Rights, Recognition, and Solidarity:
Overcoming Social Marginalization

Proposal for the establishment of the Atkinson Policy Research Institute

Rationale:
Our cross-disciplinary research network brings together researchers with common interests in the Atkinson Faculty of Liberal and Professional Studies. There is a thematic gap in much of the research pursued in connection with existing policy institutes at Canadian universities (e.g., the Institute for Policy Studies at Queen's University, Community-University Institute for Social Research at the University of Saskatchewan, University of British Columbia -- Centre for Health Services and Policy Research). This gap relates to social marginalization - a theme that unites many Atkinson faculty, postdoctoral fellows and graduate students. Many researchers at Atkinson investigate social marginalization through the lenses (or social locations) of gender, age, class, 'race'/ethnicity, (dis)ability and sexuality and investigate how social inequalities shape and are shaped by social processes tied to, for example, health, work (paid and unpaid), immigration/migration and displacement.