CHS/IPH Seminar

The Department of Community Health Sciences and the Institute for Public Health

SEMINAR

 Presenter:  Dr. Mathieu Albert, University of Toronto

 Title:   Boundary work in the Health Research Field?

Funding agencies in Canada are attempting to break down the organizational boundaries between disciplines to promote interdisciplinary research and foster the integration of the social sciences into the health research field. This presentation explores the extent to which biomedical and clinician scientists’ perceptions of social science research operate as a cultural boundary to the inclusion of social scientists into this field.

Mathieu Albert received his PhD in Sociology from the Université de Montréal in 1999. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, Interim Director and Director of the Fellowship Program at the Wilson Centre at the University of Toronto. His current research projects include the study of scientific knowledge production in the field of health research as well as in the field of medical education research. The goal of his research is to understand how knowledge is created and evaluated by scientists coming from different disciplines.

 Objectives:

 Objective 1: To understand Tom Gieryn's concept of Boundary work

Objective 2: To develop a critical perspective on evaluation criteria pertaining to qualitative research

Objective 3: To develop a better understanding of some of the challenges associated with interdisciplinary research in the health research domain.

 This event is a self approved group learning activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada

Date:     Friday, April 13th, 2012

Time:    12:00 to 12:50 P.M.

Place:   G500 – Health Sciences Centre, 3330 Hospital Drive NW

After the seminar, you are invited for continued discussion over coffee and cookies.

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