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Murray G. Brown fonds

  • MS-2-802
  • Fonds
  • 1970 - 2019
Fonds comprises Murray Brown's research and teaching-related records, including notes, annotated drafts of papers, presentations and reports, abstracts, correspondence, funding applications and reports, as well as administrative papers and employment records and contracts.

Brown, Murray G.

Richard Apostle fonds

  • MS-2-681
  • Fonds
  • 1966-2006, predominant 1981-2004

Fonds comprises records created and collected by Richard Apostle in the course of his research activities between 1966-2006, which informed their arrangement into the following series: AquaNet (Network of Centres of Excellence in Aquaculture); Community, State and Market on the North Atlantic Rim; Individual Transferable Fish Quotas; Information Services Employment Trends Survey; Marginal Work World Research Program; Public Policing in Nova Scotia; and Center for Local and Regional Development, Klaksvik, Faroe Islands.

Record types include manuscripts; published reports, papers and monographs; committee records, including minutes, agendas and reports; surveys; interview transcripts and notes; annual reports; operations manuals; datasets; secondary readings and newspaper clippings.

Apostle, Richard A.

Faroe Islands municipal amalgamation book project

Subseries comprises records created and collected by Richard Apostle documenting the development of a book about the amalgamation of municipalities in the Faroe Islands. Records types include correspondence and annotated manuscript drafts of individual chapters.

Center for Local and Regional Development, Klaksvik, Faroe islands

Series consists of records created and collected by Richard Apostle that document his involvement in establishing a regional development research institute in Klaksvik, Faroe Islands. His primary scholarly output from this collaborative endeavour was the book The Restructuration of the Faroese Economy: The Significance of the Inner Periphery, by Richard Apostle, Dennis Holm, Gestur Hovgaard, Olavur Waag Hognesen and Bjarni Mortensen. A subseries contains records documenting the development of a book about the amalgamation of municipalities in the Faroe Islands. Records types include correspondence; draft manuscripts; studies and papers; budgets and financial reports; meeting minutes; and research data and notes. Records include correspondence and reports in Faroese, Icelandic and Danish.

Essen-Moller, Erik

File contains correspondence with or about Erik Essen-Moller. Also contains a handwritten dataset and a nomination for Essen-Moller to the Harvard School of Public Health.

Charter Project demographics data

File contains computer printouts and a photocopy of Thomas Piazza, "The Analysis of Attitude Items," American Journal of Sociology, vol. 86, no. 3 (1980) with an accompanying letter to Richard Apostle from J. Fletcher.

Police organization, training standards and practices in Nova Scotia : analytic statement, research design and budget / Richard Apostle

File includes related correspondence and memos regarding Richard Apostle's police study in connection with the Royal Commission on the Donald Marshall, Jr., Prosecution; the Opening Statement by Chief Justice T. Alexander Hickman; policing and population data; a handwritten agenda for a meeting between Briggs, Clairmont and Stenning; and several page of notes and questions.

Unweighted cross-tabulations of non-electoral activity items with education and federal and provincial party ID

File contains a computer print out of contingency tables from a 1977 Ontario election study sent to Richard Apostle from R.J. Drummond at York University. There is also a photocopy of John Wilson, "The Canadian Political Cultures: Towards a Redefinition of the Nature of the Canadian Political System," Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue canadienne de science politique, Volume 7, Issue 3 (September 1974 ) 438-83.

Nova Scotia Health Department Health administrative data for hospital and physician services

Files comprises computer printouts of Maritime Medical Care (MMC) physicians claims data for 1967/68 - 1968/69 and Medical Services Insurance (MSI) physicians claims data for 1969/70 - 1973/74, which was used for Nova Scotia Health Council studies conducted by Murray Brown and Cameron Voelker and a later study of pre/post Medicare by Murray Brown and Vern Hicks, completed in 1985. There are also data sheets, notes and a commentary on a 1975/76 - 1976/77 - 1982/83 Dalhousie Intern Follow-up Study from May 1983, which was reported to a committee of the Faculty of Medicine.

Inkeles and Murphy data comparisons

File contains a computer printout dataset of frequency distribution comparison between Jane Murphy's and Alex Inkeles' data. Also includes copies of several of Inkeles' published articles: "The fate of personal adjustment in the process of modernization," "The OM scale: a comparative socio-psychological measure of individual modernity," "Some social psychological effects and noneffects of literacy in a new nation," "The modernization of man," and "Making men modern: on the causes and consequences of individual change in six developing countries."

Data analysis

Subseries includes data for and analyses of socioeconomic aspects of Yoruba women's lives (education, migration, social class, health, children, husbands, religion, family, etc.). The 1963 data seems to be part of another study, referred to in several files as "The 1963 study on the role of Yoruba women," that either piggybacked off the Cornell-Aro study or was somehow included as a sub-project.

Statistical tests on change and disorder in Yoruba men for Jane Murphy's ethos paper

File contains computer printouts of calculations for literacy statistics. Also includes copies of publications dealing with range tests: "Multiple range and multiple f tests" by David B. Duncan, "Extensions of multiple range tests to group means with unequal numbers of replications" by Clyde Young Kramer, and "Multivariate statistical programs" by Dean J. Clyde, Elliot M. Cramer, and Richard J. Sherin.

Grant no. MH 12892-05

File contains correspondence and memoranda regarding grant no. MH 12892-05 for the psychiatric disorder and socio-cultural environment study. Also contains budget documents, datasets, and application forms.

Data and research notes for Developing theories of foreign policy making: a case study of foreign aid

File contains research data and notes related to Gilbert Winham's researching of the article "Developing Theories of Foreign Policy Making: A Case Study of Foreign Aid", compiled in 1969 while employed at McMaster University. The article eventually appeared in the Feb 1970 issue of The Journal of Politics (32:1, pp. 41-70).
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