Core Research Team
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Salar Asadolahi
MCMASTER UNIVERSITY
Salar Asadolahi is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Political Science Department at McMaster University, working with Adrienne Davidson. His research interests include comparative welfare state policy, public opinion, and parties and elections with a particular focus on the politics of right-wing populism.
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Gözde Böcü
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
Gözde is a PhD student in Political Science specializing in comparative politics and international relations.
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Sophie Borwein
SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
Sophie Borwein is now an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of British Columbia. Her research seeks to understand how economic inequality shapes political preferences and government policy responsiveness.
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Adrienne Davidson
MCMASTER UNIVERSITY
Adrienne is an Assistant Professor of Political Science. Her research focuses on Canadian politics and public policy, with a focus on social policy (early years education and public schools), federal political dynamics, and Indigenous-state relations.
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Jim Farney
UNIVERSITY OF REGINA
Jim Farney is Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Regina and the Regina Director at the Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy. His research interests are Canadian party politics, political institutions, and religion and politics.
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Busra Hacioglu
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
Busra is a PhD student in Political Science, specializing in comparative politics and public policy. Her research interests include migration, integration and gender.
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Diana Hamdoun
UNIVERSITY OF REGINA
Diana is a graduate student in Public Administration at the Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy. Her research interests include big data governance, immigration, and homelessness, especially among the Indigenous People and First Nations communities. -
Shauna Hughey
MCMASTER UNIVERSITY
Shauna is a PhD student in Political Science at McMaster University. Her primary area of research is on Canadian politics, with a focus on comparative public policy and judicial studies. -
Marlene Terstiege
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
Marlene is a PhD student in Political Science, specializing in international relations and public policy. Her research interests include social and environmental policymaking, transnational governance, and school choice in Germany.
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Phil Triadafilopoulos
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
Phil is a Professor of Political Science. His research focuses on how immigration and citizenship policies reflect and reconfigure boundaries of national belonging in liberal-democratic states.
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Linda White
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
Linda is a Professor of Political Science. Her areas of research include comparative welfare states, comparative social and family policy, particularly education, early childhood education and care, and maternity and parental leave.
Affiliates
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Clark Banack
UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA
Clark is the Director of the Alberta Centre for Sustainable Rural Communities at the University of Alberta and an Adjunct Professor of Political Studies. He has authored three academic books and several academic articles and book chapters on religion and politics, education policy, Alberta politics, rural issues, and populism in Canada.
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Claudia Diaz Rios
OISE, UNIVERSITY of TORONTO
Claudia is an Assistant Professor in Leadership, Higher and Adult Education. Her research explores the interaction between global dynamics, domestic policies, and school change.
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Ursula Hackett
UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
Ursula is a Reader in Politics at the University of London. She works on American political development, federalism, public policymaking, education, and religion and politics.
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Rita Nikolai
UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG
Rita is a Professor of Comparative Education. She analyzez institutional changes in school politics, (new) forms of governance in education politics, educational inequalities and the links between welfare and education politics from an international comparative perspective.
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Jack Lucas
UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY
Jack is an Associate Professor of Political Science. His research focuses on Canadian politics, with a particular focus on municipal politics and democracy, ideology and political representation, and Canadian political development.
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Beesan Sarrouh
SENIOR POLICY ANALYST, ISED
Beesan’s projects focus on equity, diversity and inclusion in the workplace and beyond. She completed her PhD in Political Science at Queen’s University and a post-doc at the University of Toronto.
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Rob Vipond
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
Rob is a Professor in Political Science. He is interested in political development, especially in Canada and the U.S.
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Anne West
LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS
Anne is a Professor of Education Policy. She researches education policy and early childhood education and care in England.