Faculty of Social Sciences

A world of ideas to change the world

A vibrant community of 10,000 students and 270 professors is at the heart of the cutting-edge research and events that define the Faculty of Social Sciences. It’s renowned for interdisciplinary studies: its nine academic units offer a wide array of programs in French and in English

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FSS Challenges

The next FSS Challenge, WELCOME MINISTER: Delivering a Briefing Book, will happen September 27 to 29, 2024. During the three-day competition, participants will pool their knowledge and expertise to develop a briefing book for a new federal government minister, following their appointment to Cabinet. As a team, they will create a written document and an oral briefing from the point of view of the department's non-partisan public service team, to which the minister has just been assigned.

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Graduate Studies

Partnership

International

Collabzium

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Research at the Faculty of Social Sciences

Research at the Faculty of Social Sciences is dynamic and aims to produce local and global impact in two cross-cutting research themes – “la francophonie” and Indigenous research – that frame our priorities and guide the way in which research topics are addressed.

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Decolonizing, Indigenizing, and Reconciliation

Indigenous

Upcoming events

Sep 19

Lancement des activités du CIRCEM pour l'année 2024-2025

Le CIRCEM lancera la saison d’activités pour l’année 2024-2025 le 19 septembre prochain et toute la communauté universitaire y est invitée.…

Sep 24

Inclusive Innovation Speaker Series Presents: Shobita Parthasarathy

On September 24, 2024, 12 PM (EST), Shobita Parthasarathy, Professor of Public Policy and Women’s and Gender Studies, and co-founder and Director of t…

Sep 26 to Sep 28

Danyliw Seminar on Ukraine: An International Conference on the War in Ukraine

More than 2 ½ years into a devastating war, the Danyliw Foundation and the Chair of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Ottawa is inviting you to t…