Congratulations to Ryan Katz-Rosene who is one of 25 winners of this year’s SSHRC Research for a Better Life: Storytellers Challenge. The challenge tasked post-secondary students across Canada with demonstrating how social sciences and humanities research affects our lives, our world and our future prosperity. Students were asked to produce a video, podcast, editorial or infographic promoting a great SSHRC-funded research project taking place at Carleton.
For his submission, Ryan produced a video on high-speed rail development in Canada. View Ryan’s winning video here.
“The public is generally in favour of introducing high-speed trains in Canada’s busiest transport corridors, and many political leaders have claimed that the trains would help make Canada more sustainable by taking cars off the road,” says Katz-Rosene. “My research is important because it points out that the ability of high-speed rail to contribute to sustainable transportation really depends on the context in which the new technology is introduced. I look at what type of policies, regulations and public awareness campaigns would be required to make sure high-speed rail really is ‘green’.”
Learn more about Carleton’s other SSHRC Storytellers winners here.