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Q&A with two IJFAB authors

13 November 2015 AAUP Blog Tour

This fall we published a fascinating special issue of IJFAB: International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics on Just Food. Food is one of those galvanizing topics – we all eat, and we all share some degree of interest when it comes to how, where, and with whom we consume food. Food culture has begun to […]

Throwback Thursday: Transforming Something Old into Something New

12 November 2015 AAUP Blog Tour

We’ve all judged a book by its cover, it’s okay to admit it. We have all been guilty of this at some point or another no matter how loudly our moral compass screams at us not to. Yet, we continue to do so. Why? Well, believe it or not, the cover does play a crucial […]

#UP Week, Day 2 & 3: The Future of Scholarly Publishing and Design!

11 November 2015 AAUP Blog Tour

We’re thrilled to once again be one of over 40 presses participating in this years UP Week Blog Tour. Each day this week, presses will be blogging on a different theme that highlights the value of collaboration among the scholarly community. Each day, we will round up of all the university presses that posted on […]

JSP Announcement: New Editors-in-Chief

10 November 2015 UTP News

The University of Toronto Press is pleased to announce the appointment of two new Editors-in-Chief for the Journal of Scholarly Publishing, Alex Holzman and Robert Brown. JSP has benefited from a long line of talented, illustrious editors, including the most recent editor, Tom Radko, who leaves the position after thirteen years of dedicated service. Alex and Robert now join […]

#UP Week, Day 1: Surprise!

9 November 2015 AAUP Blog Tour

Costa Rica, Coffee, and Communists

2 November 2015 Contributor Blog

Photo of Graeme Mount and a Costa Rican policeman only metres from the San Juan River. Photo Credit, Joan Mount Written by guest blogger, Graeme Mount. The article “Costa Rica and the Cold War” is a by-product of my position as associate editor for the three volume Encyclopedia of U.S.-Latin American Relations (Thousand Oaks, 2012), […]

Public Policy, Rights, and Abortion Access in Canada

6 October 2015 Contributor Blog

Written by guest bloggers, Rachael Johnstone and Emmett Macfarlane. When Canada’s now defunct abortion law was struck down in 1988, it was found unconstitutional on the grounds that it created delays and uneven access to abortion services across the country. This patchwork of services was seen to violate women’s Charter rights to life, liberty, […]

Research, Convocation and the Accessibility of GIS Technologies

28 September 2015 Contributor Blog

Written by guest blogger, Kelly To. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is the amalgamation of technology and discovery. It is defined as the gathering and combining of analytic and spatial data through various software to determine solutions with satellite precision, enhanced by human intuition. It is one of the few methodologies that is able to […]

Piketty and the body: the relevance of growing inequality for bioethics

16 September 2015 Contributor Blog

By Lynette Reid Economic inequality is growing and this matters for health. Occupy Wall Street, the protest movement launched in 2011, made the slogan “we are the 99%” familiar. Piketty’s 2013 Capital in the 21st Century showed us the science behind the slogan, breaking down the the picture of both wealth and income for “the […]

Student Collaborative Writing Group to Published Research Paper – An 8 Week Undergraduate Challenge

9 September 2015 Contributor Blog

Written by guest blogger, John Maclachlan. Have you ever been asked by an editor to write a journal article for a special issue in eight weeks? Most of us would consider that a reasonable timeline if we had all of the background research compiled and necessary data collected and analyzed. What if you were […]

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