Multiple benefits to come from new research chair at Lethbridge College
LETHBRIDGE – A new position for an instructor at Lethbridge College is going to mean new opportunities for students, faculty and even the community.
Dr. Faron Ellis has taken on the role of Research Chair at the Citizen Society Research Lab (CSRL), an initiative he has guided since 2001.
The position will give Ellis more time to oversee the lab, allowing more students from varied programs to get involved and explore a broader range of topics through the public opinion studies. The initiative, which had only been available to Liberal Arts students prior to this year, is now open to social science related fields like Justice Studies, Health and Human Services programs and Multi-media, among others.
“Any industry that is dealing with humans, or has a human service element, needs to have people on staff who can either collect data on their customers that they serve in a systematic and meaningful way, or at minimum, be able to read and analyze that data to know whether it’s good data or not that somebody else has collected,” explained Ellis.