Leadership, Culture & Society

Why have conspiracy theories so readily circulated during the COVID-19 pandemic? What type of person believes medical conspiracy theories? What can belief in alternative theories tell us about ourselves?

Young, a self-professed workaholic, studies how community supports can improve working parents' mental health as they try to balance the demands of work and family life.

Defining a single Mediterranean diet is tricky business. The Mediterranean region encompasses hundreds of languages and cultures, culinary techniques and styles.

McMaster researchers have peered into the most intimate moments of sexually active women and men across Canada to ask if they're using condoms, gathering data that could inform decisions around public health and sex education.

Samantha Price, a graduate student in the Department of Anthropology, speaks about the widespread effects epidemics can have on culture, society and the economy.

Anwar Mohammed's doctoral research explores how states try to regulate cryptocurrency - a disruptive technology that threatens sovereignty that's resistant to being controlled by any state unilaterally.

Public fear seems inevitable given the alarming updates on the coronavirus outbreak, and isolation - in the forms of lockdown and quarantine - has become our default response.

Rather than helping and providing new unbiased tools for policing, police surveillance technologies tend to be reactionary and biased, writes Constantine Gidaris.

Third-year engineering student Lianna Genovese has won the U21 RISE Award for innovation for Guided Hands, a device that enables people with limited hand function write, paint, draw and use a tablet.

A trench map from McMaster University Library's extensive World War One map collection - the largest online collection of WWI maps in the world - is playing a supporting role in the Oscar-winning film, 1917.

Researchers analyze artifacts in one of Mesoamerica's earliest villages that suggest the community was in the early stages of establishing a complex social organization.