Beyond the Research: Looking Back at our Top Ten Most Read Posts of 2019

On the UTP Journals blog, our authors go beyond the research in their published articles. The diverse content has authors expanding on their work, detailing their writing or research process, and placing their work within the current social context. This past year was a standout year for the blog, so we thought we would kick off 2020 by taking a look back at our top ten most read posts from 2019.

1. For the 100^th volume of The Canadian Historical Review, Shirley Tillotson reflects on a historian’s sense of time, her recent anniversary essay, and the essays of anniversaries past.
A Sense of Time and the Arbitrariness of Anniversaries
2. The Canadian Historical Review contributor Christopher Dummitt shares some insights into his research on Eugene Forsey and Forsey’s campaign to make sure Canada would still be called a Dominion.
Who do academic fashions leave behind?
3. Journal of Veterinary Medical Education (JVME) contributor Erin Malone discusses how research for a plenary talk prompted her to explore motor skills teaching and shares what she has learned and implemented into skills training.
Designing psychomotor skills labs—when being efficient is a bad thing.
4. In the first post of our blog series on Energy History, for a special issue from the Canadian Journal of History and NiCHE, Odinn Melsted and Irene Pallua examine the literature and discuss their research on the decline of coal and the rise of hydrocarbons.
Supply or Demand? Integrating Perspectives on the Historical Transition from Coal to Hydrocarbons

5. Pierre Atlas discusses what inspired his North American comparative study and how his research came full circle with his recent article for the International Journal of Canadian Studies.
Coming full circle: How my 1980’s U of T experience and a millennial student inspired a new research agenda
6. Christopher Adams, Journal of Canadian Studies contributor, discusses the history and current climate of survey research in Canada.
Survey Research, Public Opinion, and the Canadian Market Research Industry
7. The Canadian Historical Review contributor Shannon Stettner reflects further on her article and the question of what abortion history might look like if we decentred “milestone legislation” like the omnibus bill.
Decentering Milestone Legislation
8. Jessica Mayra Ferreira, The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality contributor, shares five tips on writing research papers when English is not your first language.
When English is not your first language
9. After moving from Toronto to Dublin and back, Canadian Theatre Review contributor Thalia Gonzalez Kane reflects on the idea of home: where it is, what makes it, and how to find it.
Leaving Home to Find Home
10. The Canadian Historical Review contributor Tom Hooper asks, “How could so many people be arrested in the decades that followed the ‘decriminalization’ of homosexuality in Canada?”

Read more about his exploration of the Criminal Code reform of 1969:

Decriminalization According to Whom? Reflections on the Recriminalization of Homosexuality in 1969

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