The Latest Update: February 2003 At the World Congress of Sociology, in Brisbane, Australia in July 2002, Dr. McDaniel was elected Vice President (Publications), International Sociological Association, 2002- 2006. She was also appointed Representative to the United Nations of the International Sociological Association, 2002-2006. Dr. McDaniel served as Editor, Current Sociology (1997-2002), an official journal of the International Sociological Association. Under her Editorship, Current Sociology the second oldest and most widely cited Sociology journal in the world, was officially relaunched as a peer-reviewed quarterly with a focus on shorter review articles on issues of current interest, debate, challenge or controversy in any area of sociological enquiry. More information about Current Sociology can be found on the International Sociological Association's Website: http://www.ucm.es/info/isa. Dr. McDaniel served as the President (2001-2002) of the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association (CSAA), Canada's major professional association for the promotion of research, publication and teaching in Sociology and Anthropology. By undertaking various substantive changes to the breadth and quality of CSAA's programming, association membership has increased to over 500 full-time members and 750 institutional members under her leadership. More information on the CSAA can be found at http://alcor.concordia.ca/~csaa1. Dr. McDaniel is a frequent plenary speaker, both nationally and internationally. Recent addresses include a plenary paper on the relationship between generational relations and information and communication technologies, invited for 2001 BUGS: International Sociological Association Conference in Montreal (postponed to April 2002). She also presented a plenary paper for the 2002 World Congress of Sociology -- The Social World in the 21st Century: Ambivalent Legacies and Rising Challenges (Brisbane, Australia, July 2002). In September 1999, she presented an invited paper on the policy implications of aging population at the Ministers Meeting (all federal, provincial and territorial Ministers Responsible for Seniors, Chaired by the Honourable Allan Rock), St. John's, Newfoundland. She will be a keynote speaker at the annual meeting in Toronto in October 2003 of the Canadian Association on Gerontology. She was in Fall 2002, the keynote speaker at the Golden Key International Honorary Society, University of Alberta, and in March 2003, will be the keynote speaker at the Graduate Students Association annual Awards event, University of Alberta Honours: In 2002, Dr. McDaniel was awarded the University of Alberta University Cup, the highest honour given for continuing record of research and teaching excellence. This same year also brought a nomination for the University of Alberta Wall of Fame. In 2000, Dr. McDaniel was honoured to be nominated and short-listed for the Henry Marshall Tory Chair, University of Alberta. This is the University's most prestigious endowed Chair. Dr. McDaniel was honoured in receiving the J. Gordon Kaplan Award for Research Excellence on 9 March 1999. An excerpt from the citation for that award reads: Dr. McDaniel has distinguished herself as one of the most innovative and important sociologists of our time, accomplishing pioneering work on a variety of important sociological issues. She has applied conventional tools of demography to unconventional questions, blazing a path for others to follow. She has helped sensitize sociology to the importance of gender in sociological research... The Folio (University of Alberta) 15 January 1999:A14 Dr. McDaniel was also nominated by the University of Alberta for the Woman of Distinction Award, 1999. Dr. McDaniel was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1994, the highest Canadian honour bestowed for lifetime achievement in scholarly work. A citation from the Royal Society for that award reads: Susan A. McDaniel has helped transform sociology in Canada. She has devoted her considerable scholarly energies to rethinking, reconceptualizing and realigning the ways in which social structural constraints impinge on human social life most intimately. She has been a pioneer in studying illegal abortion, sexual assault and harassment, childbearing from a woman's point of view, women's work-related health issues, and women's participation in technological innovation. Her most important contribution, however, lies in her passionate, and yet sharply analytical frameworks, frameworks which are generating new research hypotheses. Grants: She serves on the International Advisory Board, Initiative on the New Economy grant, SSHRCC, “International Collaborative Study of Intergenerational Relations in IT Firms in Canada, Australia, U.K, U.S. and E.U.,” Principal Investigator: J. McMullin, University of Western Ontario, $3 million She is also a Research Associate, "Demographic Aging: Social Implications," SEDAP (Social and Economic Dimensions of an Aging Population), Major Collaborative Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, centred at McMaster University, 1999- 2003, $1.5 million Dr. McDaniel was awarded a grant by the Policy Research Secretariat and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada to prepare a critical assessment of the state of knowledge/research on intergenerational transfers, and develop policy implications. That paper is being published in the volume of the Policy Trends project on Population Aging, simultaneously by University of Toronto Press and Universite de Montreal Press. Recent and Forthcoming Conferences and Major Presentations: "Aging and Intergenerational Relations," paper invited for a symposium, Population Aging and Intergenerational Relations: What Do We Know? What are the Options? Canadian Association on Gerontology, Ottawa, November 1999. "Unemployed Older Workers: Factors Related to Their Re-Employment," (with Shirley Solberg), Canadian Association on Gerontology, Ottawa, November 1999. "Family Futures: Competing Visions, Bright Prospects," Invited Public Lectures in Celebration of the Millennium, sponsored by St. Stephen's College, Edmonton and Calgary, April 2000. "Minorities, Citizenship and Sociological Insights," Sociological Insights and Multiculturalism, International Sociological Association Symposium, Courmayer/Mt. Blanc, Italy/France, May 2000 (invited). "Generational Consciousness Of and For Women," Invitational Workshop on Narrative, Generational Consciousness and Politics," University of Cambridge, U.K. (Organized by Bryan Turner), June 2000. "The Demographic Gaze and Transcendental Pretensions," Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association meetings, Edmonton, May/June 2000. "Enhancing Analytical Credibility in Fertility Research," Special Session in Honour of Anatole Romaniuc, Canadian Population Society, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Edmonton, Alberta, May 2000. "Families in Canada as the 21st Century Unfolds," Invited for Joint Session on Families of the Canadian Population Society and the Canadian Association for Research in Home Economics, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Edmonton, Alberta, May 2000. "The Demographic Category as Leaky Gender Boundary," American Sociological Association meetings, Washington, D.C., August 2000. "Family Change and Life Course Development: Social Transformation on Intimate Frontiers," Paper invited for International Sociological Association Research Council Conference, Social Transformations at the Turn of the Millenium: Sociological Theory and Current Empirical Research, Montreal, July 2000. "Pensions, Privilege and Poverty: Another "Take" on Intergenerational Equity," Paper invited for presentation at the Deuxiemes Rencontres Sauvy, Le Contrat social a l'epreuve des changements demographiques, sponsored by Institut National d'Etudes Demographiques, Paris, October 2000 in Montreal. "Managing the Deception: The Promise of Better Living Through Globalized Population Control," Paper invited for the International Sociological Association Regional Conference for Latin America and the Caribbean, 7-12 May 2001, Venezuela. “New Wrinkles: Old Age in a New Age,” International Day of the Older Person Lecture Series, University of Victoria, 1 October 2001. "Continuities and Transformations: Challenges to Capturing Information about "Information Society,"" (with Fred Gault), 2001 BUGS: Globalism and Pluralism, International Conference, Montreal (postponed to 2002). “Generational Division of Welfare and Intergenerational Justice,” Paper invited for Presentation in the Distinguished Commentator Seminar Series, Family and Labour Studies Division and the Centre for Education Statistics, Statistics Canada, Ottawa, 10 April 2002. “Leaky Generational Boundaries: Intergenerational Justice and the Generational Division of Welfare,” 2002 Presidential Address, Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association, 30 May, University of Toronto. “Hidden in the Household: Now It’s Men in Midlife,” Invited plenary paper for the International Symposium, Reconceptualizing Gender and Ageing, University of Surrey, U.K., June 2002. “Tangled Hierarchies and Strange Loops: Challenges Of/To a Risk Society of Intimate Relations,” Plenary paper invited for World Congress of Sociology The Social World in the 21st Century: Ambivalent Legacies and Rising Challenges, Brisbane, Australia, July 2002. “The Adventures of Learning and Discovery on Social Frontiers,” Keynote address, University of Alberta Golden Key International Honour Society, 18 November 2002. “Generational Division of Welfare and Intergenerational Justice,” Pacific Sociological Association Meetings, Vancouver, April 2002. “Generationing Gender: Justice and the Division of Welfare,” Invited paper for International Sociological Association Conference, Equity, Equality and Diversity in Globalized Societies, Mexico City, April 2003. “Belonging and Isolation in the Midst: The Longer Term Consequences of Lone Parenthood,” British Sociological Association meetings, University of York, UK, April 2003. “Disentangling Policy Implications of Economic and Demographic Changes in Canada’s Aging Population,” Canadian Population Society meetings, Dalhousie University, Halifax, June 2003. Recent Publications: McDaniel, Susan A. & Lorne Tepperman. 2003. Close Relations: An Introduction to Sociology of Families (2nd edition). Toronto: Prentice Hall, forthcoming June. Bernard, Paul and Susan A. McDaniel. 2003. “ Introduction: Social Cohesion,” The Canadian Journal of Sociology 28(1):1-3. McDaniel, Susan A. 2003. “Gender and Social Cohesion: Reflections on Tendencies and Tensions,” The Canadian Journal of Sociology 28(1): 43-50. McDaniel, Susan A. 2003. "Pensions, Privilege and Poverty: Another 'Take' on Inter-generational Equity," in Sophie Pennec & Jacques Veron (Eds), Le Contrat a l'epreuve des changements demographiques/The Social Contract in the Face of Demographic Change. Paris: Institut national de la recherche scientifiques. McDaniel, Susan A. 2003. “The Demographic Category as Leaky Gender Boundary,” Women’s Health and Urban Life: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal 2(1). McDaniel, Susan A. 2003. “Disentangling Policy Implications of Economic and Demographic Changes in Canada’s Aging Population,” Cahiers québécois de Démographie, forthcoming. McDaniel, Susan A. 2003. “Hidden in the Household: Now it’s Men in Mid-Life,” Men and Masculinities, forthcoming. McDaniel, Susan A. 2003. “Generationing Gender: Justice and the Division of Welfare,” Journal of Aging Studies, Special Issue: “New Directions in Feminist Gerontology,” forthcoming. Gault, Fred and Susan A. McDaniel. 2002. "Continuities and Transformations: Challenges to Capturing Information about 'Information Society," First Monday (peer-reviewed internet journal about the internet www.firstmonday.com) 7(2) February:1-13. McDaniel, Susan A. 2002. “Women’s Changing Relations to the State and Citizenship: Caring and Intergenerational Relations in Globalizing Western Democracies,” Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology 39(2):1-26. McDaniel, Susan A. 2002. “Information and ommunications Technologies: Bugs in the Generational Ointment?” The Canadian Journal of Sociology 27(4): 535-546. McDaniel, Susan A. 2002. "Intergenerational Interlinkages: Public, Family and Work," in Aging and Demographic Change in Canadian Context. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. McDaniel, Susan A. 2002. “Generational Consciousness Of and For Women,” in Bryan Turner & June Edmunds (Eds.) Narrative, Generational Consciousness and Politics. Boulder, Colorado: Rowman Littlefield. McDaniel, Susan A. 2002. “Toward the Capture of Innovation Potentiality in Social Contexts,” Pp. 241-250 (+ refs) in de la Mothe, John and Albert N. Link (Eds.), Alliances, Networks and Partnerships in the Innovation Process. Boston: Kluwer. [In the Series, “The Economics of Science, Technology and Innovation,” Series Editors, Christiano Antonelli and Bo Carisson]. McDaniel, Susan A. 2001. "'Born at the Right Time?' Gendered Generation and Webs of Entitlement and Responsibility," Canadian Journal of Sociology 26(2):193-214. Author or co-author of over 160 research articles and book chapters.. And more than 100 conference papers. Policy Advising and Related Policy Work: As part of her continuing work as Chair, Statistics Canada Advisory Committee on Science and Technology (since 1996), Dr. McDaniel contributed substantially to the Statistics Canada report, Science and Technology Activities and Impacts: A Framework for a Statistical Information System (1999), catalogue no. 88-522-XPB. The paper has been described internationally as a landmark in the world in its specification of a systematic framework by which to measure science and technology activities, linkages, outcomes and impacts. The latter is particularly important since social and economic outcomes and impacts of science and technology are only beginning to be successfully measured. Canada is a leader in this area. She has been appointed, for a third three-year term by the Minister Responsible for Statistics Canada, to the National Statistics Council, a council of "outstanding Canadians" (the Minister's phrase) who advise the Chief Statistician of Canada on statistical data, measurement, collection, dissemination. She has served on the Council since 1992. New Research and Publications in the works: Continuing research on intergenerational interlinkages in relation to public policy and social cohesion, on implications of aging populations, on aging workforce in postmodernity, and on family change in relation to gender. Three new book manuscripts in progress: Gendered Demographics (working title) -- a look at demography through the lens of gender, Sage Gender Lens Series, Thousand Oaks, California, forthcoming. Canada Reconstructing: Shifting Security at the Millennium (working title) -- a multi-method study of the social (work and family) implications on mid-life people of Canada's experience in the 1990s with economic restructuring of both policy and marketplace Family Bridges from Past to Future (working title) -- a single- authored book of essays on the future of families as seen through current changes and the lessons of the past.