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Evaluating Animal Health Surveillance Practices During the Pandemic
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By Caitlin Ford
Despite COVID-19 lockdown measures, livestock health and animal health surveillance have remained robust during the pandemic, according to a University of Guelph study.
During Ontario’s first lockdown in the spring of 2020, Dr. Zvonimir Poljak, a professor in the Department of Population Medicine, and his research team studied changes in health surveillance and analyzed poultry and swine screening trends from previous years.
Test samples from livestock are routinely submitted to the University of Guelph’s...
Lessons Learned From Pandemic Can Help Hospitality Industry Be More Prepared, U of G Report Says
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By Cate Willis
University of Guelph professors Dr. Kevin James, Department of History, and Dr. Mark Holmes, School of Hospitality, Food and Tourism Management, along with history graduate student Jose Gabriel Alonzo created a report with recommendations to prepare business operators for another pandemic or local or global crisis. In this article, Cate Willis looks at what lessons can be learned from SARS and...
Mental Illness: New Smartphone Apps Can’t Replace Traditional Therapy, U of G Study Finds
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By Caitlin Ford
The demand for mental health support during the pandemic has far exceeded the supply and some companies have migrated their psychotherapy practices to virtual platforms. In a new article, SPARK writer Caitlin Ford discusses University of Guelph professor Dr. Joshua Skorburg’s research on how effective these online resources are for treating mental illness...
Impacts of Social Policy Changes on Individuals Living with Poverty
Drs. Laura Pin and Leah Levac
By Mya Kidson
The Ontario government’s policy changes during the pandemic have disproportionately impacted people living with poverty, say University of Guelph researchers.
Their study found that the provincial government’s policy changes excluded the needs of community members living with poverty. Care networks comprising neighbours, friends and service providers had to step in to support people whose existing disparities were often worsened by the pandemic.
“Social...
Connecting Generations Through Journaling
By Caitlin Ford
Kids and seniors – two groups that have been especially vulnerable to pandemic isolation – are getting together through a University of Guelph journaling project.
In summer 2020, Dr. Kimberley Martin, a professor in the Department of History, organized a journal exchange to connect seniors living in long-term care and children living in single-parent and low-income households.
This project, Connecting Generations, grew from her...
New Festival Helps Artists Perform During COVID-19
By Otaiba Ahsan and Cate Willis
A new University of Guelph project has enabled people to build community during the pandemic and to find solace and inspiration through art and improvisation.
Dr. Ajay Heble, a professor in the School of English and Theatre Studies and the director of U of G’s International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation (IICSI), launched the Improvisation Festival (IF) as an online celebration of improvisational arts in August 2020.
“We thought we would mount an improvisational arts...
Examining History to Better Understand Social Health Inequalities During COVID-19
Drs. Catherine Carstairs and Tara Abraham
By Otaiba Ahsan
Understanding the history of how infectious disease has exacerbated social and health inequalities can help policy makers control the spread of COVID-19 and protect vulnerable groups, say U of G historians.
Drs. Tara Abraham and Catherine Carstairs, both in the Department of History, used historical literature and media to identify groups of people with disproportionate infection rates. They found that meat-packing employees, working mothers and migrant workers were at greater risk of infection than other groups....
HELD: U of G’s Literary Journal for Traditionally Marginalized Communities
By Caitlin Ford
HELD Magazine, a new online artistic literary journal run by University of Guelph students, amplifies marginalized voices and creatively narrates global events. In her recent article SPARK writer, Caitlin Ford, explores the impacts of the magazine started by School of English and Theatre Studies professor Catherine Bush...
Creating an Artistic Representation of Space Use on Campus
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By Caitlin Ford
Showing how people may gather safely on outdoor campus spaces such as Johnston Green after COVID-19 is the goal of a new University of Guelph landscape architecture project.
Dr. Nadia Amoroso, School of Environmental Design and Rural Development (SEDRD), and two master of landscape architecture students, Christine Pedersen and Sihao Chen, visualized these outdoor spaces using a process called datascaping – creating information-driven digital mapping illustrations – to generate maps of outdoor locations on U of G’s...
A World Within a Block – The Impacts of COVID-19 on St. James Town
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By Mya Kidson
Residents of an often-overlooked Toronto neighbourhood that was hard-hit early in the pandemic have strengthened community ties and logged high vaccination rates through COVID-19 despite their challenges, a University of Guelph researcher has found.
Often called “a world within a block,” the St. James Town community is unlike any other, in the country, and has become a research focus for Dr. Lisa Kowalchuk, professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology.
Located in downtown east of Toronto, St....