Research Units and Groups
Eighteenth Century Studies (ECS at UofS)
Acting Director: Raymond Stephanson, Department of English
ECS at U of S was formed in summer 1995 and became a Research Unit in autumn 1996. Faculty members from English, Languages & Linguistics, History, and Political Studies make up the steering committee. The group has worked to encourage interdisciplinary practice among eighteenth-century specialists and graduate students on campus through its Visiting Speakers Series, in-house colloquia, interdisciplinary courses, and conferences. more >>
Electronic Text Research at the University of Saskatchewan (ETRUS)
Director: Yin Liu, Department of English
ETRUS is a research group of faculty, students and others who are engaged in, or interested in, research on electronic text in any form. ETRUS has officially been in existence since 2005. A precursor of ETRUS was the organizing committee of the Image, Text, Sound, and Technology seminar at the University of Saskatchewan, May 2004. more >>
Humanities Research Unit (HRU)
Director: Len Findlay, Department of English
Co-Director: Lynne Bell, Department of Educational Foundations, College of Education.
The HRU is committed to raise the profile of the Humanities on and off campus, to stimulate and support research by Humanists through colloquia and various publishing initiatives, and to promotemultidisciplinary and interdisciplinary scholarship. It usually sponsors two major academic conferences annually, as well as a variety of visiting and resident speakers and plays an active role in developing research grant proposals and in reconceptualizing relations between the Humanities and their various publics. It has developed special emphases on Body Projects and on the Indigenous Humanities. It is also closely involved in the activities of the Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada.
As attested by recent developments in the College of Arts and Science and recent discussions at the Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada, there is something of a crisis in the humanities in Canadian universities. Some of the traditional humanities disciplines are especially stressed—classics and modern European languages perhaps most of all—and need broadly based support and significant new resources if they are to preserve their core values and activities and develop connections with the so-called 'new' humanities and with other disciplines inside and outside the humanities. The humanities community on this campus needs to build on its considerable strengths and in a variety of ways, and the Humanities Research Unit has considerable experience in this area. more >>
Research Unit "Algebra and Logic"
Director: Murray Marshall, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
The Algebra and Logic Group was founded in 1997 and became a Research Unit in 2002. It is devoted to the study of ordered and valued algebraic structures, their model theory and applications in various branches of mathematics, as well as other topics in algebra. Areas of research include: real algebra and real algebraic geometry (quadratic forms, spaces of orderings, positivstellensätze, moment problems, optimization), field theory (ordered fields, valued fields, function fields, exponential fields, Hardy Fields), model theoretic algebra (model theory of valued fields, analytic functions, o-minimal structures, exponential-logarithmic power series, power series fields in positive characteristic), local uniformization and resolution of singularities, ordered algebraic structures (lexicographic orderings, ordered vector spaces, ordered abelian groups with extra structure), ultrametric spaces, nonassociative algebra, polynomial identities, Hopf algebras, symbolic computation. more >>
Social Research Unit (SRU)
Director: Roanne Thomas-MacLean, Department of Sociology
The Social Research Unit of the Department of Sociology was founded in 1983 with the objective to enhance research in the Department. The Unit keeps track of funding opportunities, and alerts faculty members to research possibilities. In addition, it provides technical assistance to faculty members in research design, questionnaire construction, sampling, and data collection and analysis. Other activities of the Unit include organizing conferences, the development of data banks, and publishing research reports.
