Joy Parr

Joy Parr, who resides in Southampton, Saugeen Shores is the recent winner of a very prestigious award.

She was chosen as the Winning Recipient of the 2011 Canada Prize in the Social Sciences for her book, Sensing Changes: Technologies, Environments and the Everyday 1953 - 2003.

Parr is the Canada Research Chair in Technology, Culture and Risk within the University of Western Ontario's Faculty of Social Science.

With a PhD in History from Yale University, Parr,  has taught at institutions, such as Queen's University, Harvard University and the University of British Columbia.

She also conducts research at the intersections of revolving around well-being, technology and time. "The advances in manufacturing, communication, and other areas of technology, that have made existence in the western world hum with busyness, also shape our bodies and our memories-our ways of seeing and recalling the world," says Parr.

Professor Parr's book that lead to her being named winner of the 2011 Canada Prize in the Social Sciences, is also complemented by her work, Megaprojects site, that provides "representations of people living amidst Canadian megaprojects."