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Sylvie Frigon, Professor of Criminology at the University of Ottawa and Vice-Dean of Graduate Studies in the Faculty of Social Sciences, has been chosen as an expert witness in a class action concerning strip searches at the Leclerc prison against the Ministère de la Sécurité publique du Québec. Mandated by the law firm Trudel Johnston & Lespérance, she is currently preparing an expert report ...

Budget 2025 isn’t subtle. The federal budget’s priorities are loud and clear: strengthening Canada’s economic and political sovereignty in an increasingly unstable world. At a recent University of Ottawa Brown Bag Lunch on public policy, two panelists with very different backgrounds converged on the same message: the pace, scale and expectations around research have been supercharged.

For several years, Professor Laura Ambrosio has enabled her students to enjoy an out of the ordinary French learning experience. Since 2008, as part of her French as a second language (FLS) and second language teaching (SLT) courses, she’s offered a teaching and learning activity that, to date, has allowed over 1,000 University of Ottawa students to experience a meaningful Community Service Learni...

Jean-Thomas Bernard, Visiting Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Ottawa, recently published an opinion piece in the Quebec daily La Presse examining current energy and geopolitical issues linked to the potential return of Venezuelan oil to global markets.

Abel Brodeur, professor of economics at the University of Ottawa and founder of the Institute for Replication, was recently featured on the Planet Money podcast produced by NPR. The episode highlights Brodeur’s efforts to address the “replication crisis” in social science—an issue where the results of published studies cannot always be reproduced when researchers repeat the analysis.

From January 8 to 12, 2026, uOttawa took part in the Jeux de la science politique, a national French-language event where teams from 10 Canadian universities face off.

The research landscape is changing fast. It is being shaped by open science, knowledge mobilization and partnerships with industries, communities and governments.

Since the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada called for “education for reconciliation,” many Canadian universities have begun Indigenizing their campuses—through curriculum reform, Indigenous faculty hiring, land acknowledgements, and dedicated initiatives. However, framing this work as “reconciliation” can sometimes risk tokenism or depoliticization.

The Faculty of Social Sciences is pleased to announce a new publication by Professor Karine Vanthuyne: The Futures of Reparations in Latin America: Imagination, Translation, and Belonging, published by Rutgers University Press.

Six professors from the Faculty of Social Sciences (FSS) at the University of Ottawa and one colleague from the Faculty of Law were awarded funding under the Indo-Pacific Scholarships and Fellowships for Canadians (IPSFC) program administered by Global Affairs Canada.