SSHRC to present the Imagining Canada’s Future six future challenge areas

September 19, 2013

Thursday, September 26, 2013, 2:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m. in the Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility, 1 Devonshire Place, South House, at the Munk School of Global Affairs

For Canada to be a successful 21st-century society we need to anticipate the challenges ahead and keep our minds open to the potential futures facing us all. This is the inspiration behind SSHRC’s Imagining Canada’s Future initiative.

Over the past two years, SSHRC conducted a cross-Canada and international consultation process, during which the Council reached out to more than 13,000 subject matter experts, members of the academic research community, and public and private sector leaders, to seek their insight. The goal was to identify future challenge areas for Canada in an evolving global context that are likely to emerge in five, 10 and 20 years and to which the social sciences and humanities research community could contribute its knowledge, talent and expertise.

The result was the selection of SSHRC’s six future challenge areas. They represent lenses through which SSHRC—in collaboration with the Canadian social sciences and humanities research community—feels it can and should make a difference in the coming years. For more information, please see the video and web page.

 

 

These six future challenge areas will be presented at a panel discussion at the Munk School, hosted by Dr. David Wolfe, Director, Innovation Policy Lab, and will feature presentations by:

• Dr. Gisèle Yasmeen, SSHRC Vice-President Research/Senior Advisor to the President
• Dr. Helmut Reichenbächer, Associate Vice-President of Research and Dean of Graduate Studies at OCAD University
• Dr. Pekka Sinervo, Senior Vice-President of Research at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
• Dr. Brent Herbert-Copley, SSHRC Vice-President of Research Capacity
• Jennifer Corriero, Co-founder and Executive Director, Taking ITGlobal

To register for this event, please click here.

For further information, please contact:

Thérèse de Groote

Senior Policy Advisor, Office of the Vice-President, Research

ifca-sica@sshrc-crsh.gc.