University of Calgary Archives

Is there equality for students with disabilities when accessing government grants for post-secondary education?

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Students with disabilities are left with greater responsibility in proving their worth.

Higher education can strengthen job opportunities for people with disabilities. Mandy Mou, a PhD candidate within the Cumming School of Medicine at the University of Calgary, Canada, observed a gap in the literature surrounding equality relating to federal and provincial disability grants for post-secondary education. She undertook a critical discourse analysis, highlighting that in Canada, a neoliberalist culture has led […]

What constitutes optimal leisure?

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Professor Robert Stebbins has developed a framework that synthesises the science of leisure activities which can be used by policymakers to inform their decisions of organising leisure activities so that people can pursue their optimal lifestyles.

Large sections of our society have had an increasing amount of time on their hands outside of work since the inception of the industrial age. People have developed multiple ways of occupying this time through varied and multifaceted leisure activities. These activities have been extensively researched and documented in recent decades, and Professor Robert Stebbins at the University of Calgary […]

Energy futures: A new equilibrium model for resource extraction and investment decisions

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Prof David’s equilibrium model considers the investment decisions made by oil producers.

Increasingly sophisticated technologies developed in the current century to extract natural resources from costlier fields have changed the current and expected futures prices of resources, with important consequences for energy self-sufficiency and economic growth stability. In a recent paper, Alexander David, Professor of Finance at the Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary in Canada, develops a new model that […]