Featured Research
The Political Lives of Migrant Workers
Citizenship is often viewed as a means of excluding migrants from participating in political affairs. However, migrants are capable of contesting this exclusion and viewing themselves as citizens through their actions.
Many migrants struggle to obtain citizenship, due to the numerous conditions that must be met before an individual is recognized as a citizen.
Research Institutes & Centres
Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis
A world-class interdisciplinary health research centre that fosters excellence in acquiring, producing and communicating socially-relevant knowledge in the fields of health economics and health policy analysis to inform fair and sustainable health and social systems.
Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition
The Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition plays a crucial role in promoting research and teaching on global and international issues and themes.
Spark: a centre for social research innovation
Spark connects researchers to the people, skills and tools needed to stand at the forefront of social research innovation.
Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis
A world-class interdisciplinary health research centre that fosters excellence in acquiring, producing and communicating socially-relevant knowledge in the fields of health economics and health policy analysis to inform fair and sustainable health and social systems.
Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition
The Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition plays a crucial role in promoting research and teaching on global and international issues and themes.
Spark: a centre for social research innovation
Spark connects researchers to the people, skills and tools needed to stand at the forefront of social research innovation.
Research Labs & Facilities
Digital Society Lab
The Digital Society Lab at McMaster University aspires to serve as a world-class, interdisciplinary research facility dedicated to the study of the complex societal transformations that have accompanied the digital age.
Digital Society Lab
The Digital Society Lab at McMaster University aspires to serve as a world-class, interdisciplinary research facility dedicated to the study of the complex societal transformations that have accompanied the digital age.
Interdisciplinary Networks
Austerity Research Group
The Austerity Research Group, with members from seven social science disciplines, formed to investigate the theory, practice and results of austerity policies.
Asian Research Working Group
The aim of the Asian Research Centre is to build and leverage the research strengths and networks of the growing number of scholars in McMaster who work on Asia.
Ethnic Quota Project
This project builds new knowledge on variations of ethnic quotas designed to guarantee political representation of indigenous and ethnic minority groups in legislatures around the world.
Globalization and Time
Exploring the relationship between globalization and time and the implications of this for humans and the environment.
Austerity Research Group
The Austerity Research Group, with members from seven social science disciplines, formed to investigate the theory, practice and results of austerity policies.
Asian Research Working Group
The aim of the Asian Research Centre is to build and leverage the research strengths and networks of the growing number of scholars in McMaster who work on Asia.
Ethnic Quota Project
This project builds new knowledge on variations of ethnic quotas designed to guarantee political representation of indigenous and ethnic minority groups in legislatures around the world.
Globalization and Time
Exploring the relationship between globalization and time and the implications of this for humans and the environment.
Mapping the Global Dimensions of Policy Conference
Research in Progress Seminar Series
Research in Progress Seminar Series (RIPS), hosted by the Department of Political Science, McMaster University
Fall 2021 – Tuesday, October 26 at 2:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. online
- Reckoning with the colonial present: the failures of reconciliation and the denialism of the Canadian state
- This speaker panel brings together:
- Vanessa Watts, McMaster University
- Robert A. Innes, McMaster University
- David B. MacDonald, University of Guelph