Research Results

Climate change is profoundly affecting livelihoods across Canada. Sara Dorow, with Martin Weinhold, Karen Foster, and Angele Alook. The Conversation. (2025) https://theconversation.com/climate-change-is-profoundly-affecting-livelihoods-across-canada-262704

Sustainability, Sound, and Sites: Case Studies in Reconciling Minimal Computing Practices with the Preservation and Presentation of Audio Media. Catherine Bevan. Digital Studies/Le champ numerique.  (September 2026). https://www.digitalstudies.org/article/id/19034/

Environment, Meaning and Productivity: What the natural world affords a working life. Evan Curley and Karen Foster. British Sociological Association Conference (Manchester, UK, April 2026).

The Sounds of Work: the noisy ‘decision trail’ in working with sound. Evan Curley, Sara Dorow, and Catherine Bevan. European Congress for Qualitative Inquiry (Athens, Greece, January 2026).

Themes in Qualitative Research Workshop – Work-Life Canada as Example. Sara Dorow. International Institute for Qualitative Methodology (Edmonton, Alberta, April 2025).

ReStorying (for) Meaning: Working with word, image, sound. Sara Dorow and Alex Blais. European Congress for Qualitative Inquiry (Edinburgh, Scotland, January 2025).

Creating Sustainable Web Projects Using Minimal Computing Principles. Catherine Bevan and Sean Luyk, with SpokenWeb and the Digital Scholarship Centre (Edmonton, Alberta, November 2024).

Work and Place: Dynamic relations of meaning. Angele Alook, Sara Dorow, and Karen Foster. Work and Family Researchers Network (Montreal, June 2024).

Communicating the Meaning of Work in Image, Word, and Sound. Sara Dorow. Language, Culture, and Communication Signature Area Research Cafe (Edmonton, Alberta, November 2023).

Listening to the ‘meaning of work.’ Sara Dorow, Sean Luyk, and Scott Smallwood. SpokenWeb Symposium (Edmonton, Alberta, May 2023).

Field Recording Workshop. Scott Smallwood and the Sound Studies Institute (Edmonton, Alberta, April 2023).

Multi-modal Collaboration around Portrait Photography in the Work-Life in Canada Project. Martin Weinhold and Sara Dorow. The Image Conference (virtual, Sept 2022).

Gendered Dynamics of the Work-Life Interface in Small Businesses. Lauren Menzie and Sara Dorow. Canadian Sociological Association (June 2022).