Research
Dal study examines how rise in discrimination, harmful rhetoric targeting 2SLGBTQ+ people is affecting their mental health
Patrick Hickey continues to hear about the lasting toll anti-2SLGBTQ+ policies and rhetoric has on mental health and feeling safe in our communities.聽His research explores ways to limit those effects. Read more.
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Wednesday, June 11, 2025
Dr. Keisha Jefferies leads a groundbreaking study exploring Black women鈥檚 mental health in Nova Scotia, aiming to create culturally relevant care and amplify overlooked voices.
Monday, June 30, 2025
Major reforms could fundamentally reshape fisheries science and management in Canada, write Dal's Megan Bailey and colleagues. Yet most Canadians are unaware of how DFO鈥檚 science-management process works, or why change might be needed.
Thursday, June 26, 2025
The future of Canada鈥檚 farming sector 鈥� and by extension its food security, rural communities and economic sovereignty 鈥� will depend on its ability to turn today鈥檚 crisis into tomorrow鈥檚 opportunity.
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Tuesday, July 23, 2024
What do you need to make a hit song? It's all in the numbers, according to a Dal mathematician whose songwriting showcases fractals, the Cantor set and all things mathy.
Tuesday, July 23, 2024
Sixty years after his death, the work of German author Franz Kafka continues to resonate. To mark what would have been his 100th birthday, Brittany Kraus of Dal's English department writes about his influence on the 2008 novel Cockroach by Lebanese Canadian writer and photographer Rawi Hage.
Friday, July 19, 2024
Two Dal researchers are part of the first national study to examine 2SLGBTQ+ poverty in Canada.
Thursday, July 18, 2024
鈥淚t鈥檚 a really exciting time to move lung health research forward in Canada,鈥� says Dalhousie's Dr. Sanja Stanojevic.
Tuesday, July 16, 2024
Dal researchers Dr. Mita Dasog and Dr. Michael Freund have received a grant from the National Research Council of Canada for a project that could make green hydrogen production cheaper and more widely adopted in Atlantic Canada.