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Research Methodologies for Auto/biography Studies offers a series of case studies that explore the research practices, reflective behaviours, and ethical considerations that inform auto/biographical research.

2017 Scholar Sophie de Saussure has written a publication titled: The effects of punishment on the offenders’ relatives: Difficulties and discussion regarding their problematization at the sentencing stage. The paper looks at the problematization of the effects of punishment on offender’s relatives, specifically at the sentencing stage.
Sophie’s main interest lies in penal sociology, in the obstacles to evolution and innovation in the criminal justice system, and in human rights. Her doctoral work focuses on the sentencing process, particularly the way that it might better take offenders’ social ties into account.

2017 Scholar Stéphanie Roy brings to light aspects of Canadian jurisprudence in the field of the environment that imposes duties of environmental protection on the government in her latest essay entitled Fiduciary Duties Under the Trusteeship Theory: The Contribution of Canadian Case Law in Judicial Review of Environmental Matters.
Stéphanie Roy’s research examines the trusteeship theory, a form of governance that would allow greater responsibility for the environment to be attributed to the state.

Our 2015 Scholar Jennifer Peirce has co-authored an article titled "Concentrated Violence: The Influence of Criminal Activity and Governance on Prison Violence in Latin America." Drawing on data from prisoner surveys, Jennifer Peirce and Gustavo Fondevila analyze the association between facility-level and individual-level rates of experiences of violence and the extent of perceived criminal activity committed in or ordered from inside prisons. The full article is available here(access limited to subscribers of the journal).

2019 Scholar Carlo Charles has co-edited a special issue in Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees. The issue addresses the Racialized Refugee Regime and explores the connection between scholarship in refugee studies and ethnic and racial studies.
Refuge publishes analytical, reflective, and probing articles from a wide range of disciplinary and regional perspectives, presenting writing of academics, policy-makers, and practitioners in the field of forced migration and occasionally publishes special issues on specific themes related to forced migration.
Carlo Charles’ doctoral research focuses on how cross­-cultural understandings of race, ethnicity, and nationalism shape the socio-­political integration of Haitian refugees in Canada and France.

2018 Fellow Cecilia Benoit recently co-published an article titled “Unlinking Prostitution and Sex Trafficking: Response to Commentaries” in Archives of Sexual Behavior.
The official publication of the International Academy of Sex Research is dedicated to the dissemination of information in the field of sexual science, broadly defined.
The full article is available here (access limited to subscribers of the journal).

2012 Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Scholar Steven Hoffman published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) a study which focuses on cigarette consumption estimates for 71 countries from 1970 to 2015: systematic collection of comparable data to facilitate quasi-experimental evaluations of national and global tobacco control interventions.
Using the data from this study, a second study was published measuring the impact of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) treaty mechanism.
We believe these studies now represent the most rigorous impact evaluation of an international law ever conducted – which will hopefully set a new benchmark for how such evaluations are conducted in the future by us and others.
Steven Hoffman completed a PhD in Health Policy at Harvard University where he researched how global regulatory strategies can be designed to better address transnational health threats, social inequalities and human rights challenges.
He is currently Scientific Director at the CIHR Institute of Population & Public Health and Professor of Global Health, Law, and Political Science at York University.

2017 Scholar Daniel Del Gobbo has published a new article that explores queer theory and the ethical implications of reframing the bearer of interests as a bearer of desires. It is entitled Queer Dispute Resolution, and is published in the Journal of Conflict Resolution. You can read the complete article here.
Daniel Del Gobbo is a doctoral student, litigation lawyer, and law teacher whose work is driven by the need to expose the ways that power and privilege are distributed unequally in our society, often along gender- and sexuality-based lines, through legal processes.

Jeremy Schmidt, 2009 Scholar and Assistant Professor of Geography at Durham University, has published a new article on the moral consequences of humanity's impacts on the planet.

Engaging a wide array of leading theories about how to make sense of humanity's bewildering changes and how the Earth system functions, Dr. Schmidt argues that it is imperative to consider the political and economic conditions that beset contemporary practices of planetary stewardship and their growing influence on new approaches to sustainable development.

The article [is freely available here,](https://rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/tran.12308) and as a [permanent read-only file here](https://rdcu.be/bw0VI).

2016 Scholar Marie-Eve Desroches recently published an article in the journal Éthique Publique.
The article on intersectionality and the ethics of care addresses housing interventions for vulnerable populations in terms of providing effective means of addressing health inequalities.
Marie-Eve Desroches is a PhD student in Urban Studies at the National Institute of Scientific Research (INRS).