CURRENT CERIS AFFILIATES
Affiliate Bios
Affiliates names starting from A to D
(This page shows current CERIS affiliates as of February 29, page updated quarterly each year.)
Ahmad Abbasi
City of Mississauga
Research Domain(s):
1. Citizenship and Social, Cultural and Civic Integration
2. Health and Well-Being
3. Economic and Labour Market Integration
Research Interest:
1. Temporary Movement of Natural Persons under GATS
2. Combating Human Trafficking
3. Newcomers Health and Wellbeing
Population(s):
1. Hardcore rural poor
2. Fishing communities
3. Indigenous people
Bio:
18+ years of uninterrupted professional experience having had served
diplomatic missions, international/UN Agencies as well as NGOs and
Inter-governmental/Inter-regional Agency, municipal government and
university level research centers in the USA, Canada and Bangladesh. Have
written more than 45 articles, reports, technical summaries, Monitoring and
Evaluation (M&E) report and edited two books. Areas of research interest:
Immigration and Settlement Issues. Poverty Analysis, Community Development,
Human Rights and Democracy, Education & Culture.
Naomi Adelson
York University
Research Domain(s):
Health and Well-Being
Research Interest:
1. Medical anthropology
2. Health disparities
3. Social suffering
Bio:
Naomi Adelson is an Associate Professor of Anthropology, specializing in
medical anthropology (areas of research include: Indigenous health; meanings
of health and healing; social suffering; alternative therapeutics; gender
and health; biotechnologies and the body).
Sharry Aiken
Queen's University
Research Domain(s):
Justice, Policing and Security
Research Interest:
1. Migration and security
2. Refugee law
3. Constitutionalism and migration law
Population(s):
Sri Lankan Tamils
Bio:
Sharry Aiken is an assistant professor in the faculty of law at Queen’s
University where she teaches immigration and refugee law, international
human rights, administrative law and law and poverty. Prior to assuming her
current position, Sharry practiced immigration and refugee law as a staff
lawyer with legal aid clinics in Toronto and in
private practice. She has appeared before the Supreme Court of Canada in a
number of precedent-setting cases, including Suresh v. Minister of
Citizenship and Immigration and most recently, Charkaoui v. Canada (pending
decision). In 2002-03 she was appointed to the Ministerial Advisory
Committee on Immigration Consultants and served as editor of the committee’s
final report. The report’s 27 recommendations resulted in an amendment
to the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act in 2004 and the establishment
of an independent self-regulating body for immigration consultants. She is a
past president of the Canadian Council for Refugees and is editor-in-chief
of Refuge, Canada’s Periodical on Refugees. Immigration and refugee law and
the impact of national security measures on diaspora communities are her
primary research interests.
Mehrunnisa Ali
Ryerson University
Research Domain(s):
Education
Danny Anckle
Central Neighbourhood House
Research Domain(s):
Community, Neighbourhoods and
Housing
Research Domain(s):
1. Education
2. Health and Well-being
3. Economic and Labour Market Integration
Research Interest:
1. Economic Integration
2. Immigrant Youth
3. Higher Education
Population(s):
Diverse populations
Bio:
Paul Anisef is a professor of sociology at York University and associate
director of the Centre of Excellence for Research on Settlement and
Immigration. His academic credentials include an M.A. from Pennsylvania
State University and a Ph.D. from Cornell University. Professor Anisef has
an extensive research agenda that includes: the settlement and integration
of immigrant youth; the family-school- child nexus with relation to
children's learning experiences and academic outcomes; school- to -work
transitions at the secondary and postsecondary levels of education and
careers for Canadian youth. He is co-author of Opportunity and Uncertainty:
The Life Course Experiences of the Class of 73 (with P. Axelrod, E.
Baichman-Anisef, C, James & A.H. Turrittin (2000). More recently, he
co-edited The World in a City (with Michael Lanphier) (2003). Another book,
co-edited with Kenise M. Kilbride and entitled Managing Two Worlds will be
published in late fall 2003. Professor Anisef has also written numerous
reports for government, book chapters and refereed journal articles. In
2005, McGill Queen's published and edited collection of essays (with Robert
Sweet) entitled Preparing for Postsecondary Education: New Roles for
Governments and Families).
Jennifer Asanin
University of Toronto at Mississauga
Research Domain(s):
1. Health and Well-being
2. Community, Neighbourhoods and
Housing
3. Economic and Labour Market Integration
Research Interest:
1. Access to health care services
2. Link between employment and health for newcomers
3. Culturally appropriate health promotion strategies
Rosana Barbosa
St. Mary's University
Research Domain(s):
Citizenship, Religion and Culture
Research Interest:
1. Immigration/Emigration to and from Brazil
2. History of Brazil and Latin America
3. Relations between Brazil-Canada
Population(s):
1. Brazilians
2. Lusophones
3. Latin Americans
Tanya Basok
University of Windsor
Research Domain(s):
1. Health and Well-being
2. Citizenship and Social, Cultural and Civic Integration
3. Economic and Labour Market Integration
Research Interest:
1. Temporary migrant workers
2. Immigrants’ access to community health services
3. Advocacy on behalf of migrants
Population(s):
1. Mexican seasonal agricultural workers
2. Lusophones
3. Latin Americans
Bio:
Dr. Basok has a long record of research and activism in the area of Social
Justice. She has done research on violations of human rights in Central
America, refugee movements, refugee settlement in Central American
countries, the Canadian refugee policy and its application, professional
certification of former Soviet Jewish physicians in Canada, anti-Semitism
and nationalism in the former Soviet Union, and volunteer retention in
community agencies concerned with Social Justice. Since 1996, Dr. Basok has
been conducting research on Mexican migrant workers in Canada, including
such topics as Mexican migrants’ working and living conditions in Canada,
the impact of Canada-bound Mexican migration on social and economic
development in Mexican villages, migrants’ social marginalization, and
organized labours’ attitudes towards Mexican migrant workers in the U.S. and
Canada. She is currently directing a research on immigrants with physical
and mental disabilities and their access to community health services.
Harald Bauder
University of Guelph
Research Domain(s):
Community, Neighbourhoods and
Housing
Bio:
Harald Bauder is an associate professor in the Geography Department at
the University of Guelph. His research focuses on labour market and
settlement aspects of migration and immigration. He investigates these
themes in Canadian and European contexts and by using both quantitative and
qualitative methods. His book Labor Movement: How Migration Regulates Labor
Markets (New York: Oxford University Press) offers a critical perspective of
economic processes related to migration, drawing on concepts of citizenship
and processes of social and cultural distinction.
Morton Beiser
University of Toronto
Research Domain(s):
Health and Well-being
Research Domain(s):
Citizenship and Social, Cultural and Civic Integration
Research Interest:
1. Diversity and philanthropic behavior
2. Diversity and voluntary behavior
3. Immigration and integration into voluntary sector
Population(s):
1. Jewish groups
2. Religious groups
3. Ethnic groups
Bio:
Ida E. Berger's research interests are invested in social identity,
ethnic diversity, social alliances, consumer behavior and advertising.
Professor Berger earned a B. A., M.B.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the
University of Toronto with a concentration on the effect of product
experiences and advertisements on consumers’ recognition, attitudes and
behavior regarding branded consumer products. She has been a professor of
marketing at the business schools of the Universities of Toronto, Queen’s,
and now Ryerson University and has related work experience including McLaren
Advertising and Woods Gordon Consulting. She has conducted extensive
academic research, authored and co-authored numerous papers, presented many
papers at conferences, given numerous addresses and refereed many papers,
and special conference sessions on subjects related to marketing, branding,
advertising, consumer attitudes and consumer social responsibility. Her work
has been recognized with nominations and/or awards from the American
Marketing Association, Journal of Consumer Research, the Marketing and
Public Policy Conference and California Management Review. Professor Berger
is currently engaged in research projects that include the consumer effects
of adventure tourism, the strategic benefits of social alliances, the role
of identity, religion and social embeddedness in philanthropy, the role and
value of non-profit organizations in Ontario and the engagement of urban
youth in sports in Canada.
Rakesh
Bhardwaj
Research Domain(s):
1. Citizenship and Social, Cultural and Civic Integration
2. Community, Neighbourhoods and Housing
Research Interest:
1. Settlement
2. Integration
3. International development
Steve Birch
McMaster University
Karen Bird
McMaster University
Research Domain(s):
1. Community, Neighbourhoods and Housing
2. Justice, Policing and Security
Bio:
Karen Bird is Associate Professor of Political
Science at McMaster University (Canada). Her main area of research is
comparative politics, with a special interest in comparative
multiculturalism. She has published articles and book chapters comparing
French and US approaches to racist speech, and
examining women’s representation and gender parity in France and Canada. In
her current research, she is examining differences across advanced
democratic states in the political representation of ethnic and visible
minorities.
Rachel Birnbaum
University of Western Ontario
Research Domain(s):
1. Family, Children and Youth
2. Health and Well-Being
3. Justice, Policing and Security
Research Interest:
1. Children in separated/divorced families
2. Children at risk
3. Families involved in family justice system
Population(s):
1. Separated and/or divorced families
2. Cultural issues related to high conflict divorce
3. Immigrant children of separated families
Bio:
Rachel Birnbaum, Ph.D.; RSW. is an Associate Professor at King’s University
College, at The University of Western Ontario. She has over 20 years of
clinical experience working with a diverse population of separating and/or
divorcing families. Rachel teaches in the area of clinical practice with
children, individuals and families. Other teaching interests include ethics
and the law, dispute resolution and the collaboration between law and social
work. Her research background has been focused on interdisciplinary
collaboration in family law related matters.
Patricia Bishop
Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration
Research Domain(s):
1. Citizenship and Social, Cultural and Civic Integration
2. Community, Neighbourhoods and Housing
3. Health and Well-being
Research Interest:
1. Reciprocal integration
2. Relationship between main stream and immigrants
3. Relationship between diff ethnic groups in Toronto
Population(s):
Serbian seniors (and their adult children)
Larry Bourne
Centre for Urban & Community Studies, University of Toronto
Research Domain(s):
Community, Neighbourhoods and Housing
Bio:
Dr. Bourne’s current research interests include comparative urbanization and
urban policy evaluation; uneven growth and change in the Canadian urban
system; the emergence of new metropolitan forms; social polarization and
income inequalities within cities; housing markets and housing policy; the
inner city; urban revitalization and neighbourhood change; urban governance;
urban form, sprawl and growth management. He has served as a consultant to
national, provincial, and municipal governments and to several international
agencies and foundations, and chaired an international working group on
urban development for the International Geographical Union. He has published
extensively in international journals and written or edited 19 books. His
books include The Geography of Housing (E. Arnold, London, 1981); and edited
collections: Internal Structure of the City, 2nd edition (Oxford University
Press, New York, 1982); Urbanization and Settlement Systems: International
Perspectives (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1984); Progress in Settlement Systems
Geography (Franco Angeli, Milan, 1986); Urban Systems in Transition
(Utrecht, 1986); The Changing Geography of Urban Systems (Pamplona, 1990);
Urbanization and Urban Growth (Dublin, 1991); The Changing Social Geography
of Canadian Cities (McGill-Queens, Montreal 1993); and People and Places (Neptis
Foundation 2000). Dr. Bourne has received awards for scholarship and
academic achievement from the Association of American Geographers (AAG) and
the Canadian Association of Geographers (CAG), both in 1985, and for service
to geography from the Ontario Division of the CAG in 1989. He was elected a
Fellow of Academy II of the Royal Society of Canada in 1986, and has served
as president of the CAG in 1993-94, and as president of the North American
Regional Science Association in 1994-95. In 1998 he received an outstanding
teaching award at the University of Toronto, and in 1999 an honorary degree
from the University of Waterloo. In 2004 he received the Massey Medal of the
Royal Canadian Geographical Society for contributions to understanding
Canada’s geography and its cities. Dr. Bourne received a B.A. (Hons.) from
the University of Western Ontario in 1961, an M.A. from Alberta in 1963, and
a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1966. After spending a year as a
postdoctoral fellow in regional development at Amherst, Massachusetts, he
accepted a position at the University of Toronto. He has since held visiting
professor positions at the University of California at Los Angeles, Monash
University in Melbourne, CES in London, the London School of Economics, the
Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, the University of Texas in Arlington
and Meiji University in Tokyo.
Monica Boyd
University of Toronto
Research Domain(s):
1. Citizenship and Social, Cultural and Civic Integration
2. Education
3. Economic and Labour Market Integration
Research Interest:
1. Language and earnings inequalities
2. Socioeconomic, acculturation, ethnic identities
3. Labour market inequalities of immigrants
Population(s):
1. Visible minorities
2. Immigrant women
3. Immigrant offspring
Bio:
Dr. Monica Boyd is Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto, and
holds a Canada Research Chair in Immigration, Inequality and Public Policy.
Trained as a demographer and sociologist, she has written numerous articles,
books and monographs on the changing family, gender inequality,
international migration (with foci on policy, on immigrant integration and
on immigrant women) and ethnic stratification. Dr. Boyd also is an active
participant in policy and government circles; currently she is a member of
the National Statistics Council which advises the Chief Statistician of
Canada. She has served on executive boards of Canadian and American
professional associations, including tenure as President of the Canadian
Population Society. She currently is the President of Academy II (Social
Sciences) of Canada’s National Academies, the Royal Society of Canada and
she is President-Elect of the Canadian Sociological Association.
Bio:
Max Brem is a consultant with some 30 years professional experience in
communications and additional experience and expertise in international
development and immigration-related policy and program research and
education. He is currently a Research Associate and member of the Executive
Committee, York Centre for Asian Research (YCAR) at York University.
Michael
Buzzelli
Queen's University
Research Domain(s):
1. Community, Neighbourhoods and Housing
2. Health and Well-being
Nadia Caidi
University of Toronto
Research Domain(s):
1. Community, Neighbourhoods and Housing
2. Education
3. Justice, Policing and Security
Bio:
Dr. Nadia Caidi is an Assistant Professor I the Faculty of Information
Studies at the University of Toronto, which she joined in 2000. Her primary
research interests are information policy and social/community informatics.
She also teaches and is involved in cross-cultural and comparative studies,
researching the influence of culture on the production, distribution and use
of information and its technologies. Current research involves
cross-cultural usability studies of library artifacts (union catalogs,
digital libraries, user interfaces, etc.), and information seeking, needs
and uses of marginal communities. Dr. Caidi is currently pursuing work on
information seeking behaviour of immigrant groups in Toronto, which aims to
provide insights to libraries and other frontline information providers
about patterns of information seeking behaviour found among various
immigrant populations, and what indications these provide for the future of
specific information services. Another aim is to influence government
policies, programs and funding priorities concerning information provision
and access strategies that enable social inclusion and integration of
immigrant communities and newcomers into the social fabric of Canada.
John Campey
Community Social Planning Council of Toronto
Research Domain(s):
Community, Neighbourhoods and Housing
Research Domain(s):
1. Community, Neighbourhoods and Housing
2. Justice, Policing and Security
3. Citizenship and Social, Cultural and Civic Integration
Research Domain(s):
1. Citizenship and Social, Cultural and Civic Integration
2. Health and Well-being
3. Justice, Policing and Security
Research Interest:
1. Citizenship
2. Immigration Act
3. Disability
Population(s):
1. Ethno-cultural
2. People with disabilities
Bio:
After completing the MA Program in Geography at York University in April
2003, I have started the PhD program in the Department of History at York
and I am now in my fourth year of study. I am an International student from
Italy. I got my BA in Contemporary History at the University of Bologna
(Italy). During my undergraduate I came at York as exchange student and I
had the opportunity to collect some materials about Canada; therefore, once
I went back to Italy, I wrote my final thesis in Political Geography,
focusing on the political and administrative organisation of the Canadian
confederation. On November 2000, I graduated with the highest grades at the
Contemporary History Department in the Faculty of Art, University of
Bologna.
After my graduation, I applied as Graduate student at York because I wanted
to deepen my studies on the situation of Toronto, focusing on the concept of
citizenship and especially on the difference between “formal” and
“substantive” citizenship as experienced by different groups and individuals
in the city. Indeed, my Master research thesis dealt with the first wave of
Italian Catholic immigrants in Toronto at the beginning of the twentieth
century, and the barriers and discrimination they faced in their contact
with English-speaking Catholics and Protestants, as well as the State
authorities and the general citizenry. Looking at the difficulties met and
the different ways Italian Catholic immigrants tried to integrate and be
accepted by the mainstream society, I showed how the situation experienced
by the early Italian community in the city represents an exemplary case of
religious citizenship.
In September 2001 I started the PhD program in History at York University
and I have passed in November 2004 the comprehensive examination. Then, I
submitted my dissertation proposal that was accepted by the Faculty of
Graduate Studies in January 2006. I am currently working on my thesis under
the supervision of Professor Patricia Wood; my research focuses on Canadian
immigration policy from the early twentieth century to the present time,
looking in particular to the provision denying admission to Canada to those
people who, due to a mental or physical disability, are deemed an excessive
burden on Canadian health and social services.
Mirna Carranza
McMaster University
Research Domain(s):
1. Citizenship and Social, Cultural and Civic Integration
2. Family, Children and Youth
3. Community, Neighbourhoods and Housing
Research Interest:
1. Impact of trauma on family relations
2. Family processes of acculturation/integration
3. Immigration & Settlement issues
Population(s):
1. Central Americans
2. Mexicans
3. Caribbean & other Spanish speaking groups
Bio:
Dr. Carranza works as an Assistant Professor at the School of Social Work,
McMaster University. She is a Social Worker and a Registered Marriage and
Family Therapist.
Her research interests include immigrant and refugee families and their
process of acculturation as family units. She is also interested in studying
issues of grief, ambiguous losses, war and trauma, the development and
maintenance of transnational relationships, and the impact of these on
parenting practices, addictive behaviours, and mental health. Specifically,
the context in which families settle and its impact on “successful” or
“non-successful acculturation” is a focus of her studies.† Her theoretical
standpoint is a liberationist perspective with strong commitment to social
justice and human right issues.
Mary Cerre
Public Health Agency of Canada
Research Domain(s):
1. Citizenship and Social, Cultural and Civic Integration
2. Education
Bio:
My primary research interest relates to the working conditions and
opportunities of ethnic minority immigrant women in hierarchical
organizations, particularly on their settlement and career mobility.
Due to both cultural and structural constraints in these organizations,
underemployment and under-utilization of skills and experience are prevalent
among these women. These constraints do not only affect the progress of
their career development, but also have negative impact on their health.
Learning is a curical component in helping immigrant women to understand the
unique conditions they have to face in these organizations and develop
appropriate coping strategies. I am working on developing a theoretical
model to explain why learning or lifelong learning is important to immigrant
professional women when settling in Canada to maintain their work
satisfaction and progress.
Research Domain(s):
1. Citizenship and Social, Cultural and Civic Integration
2. Economic and Labour Market Integration
Research Interest:
1. Transnationalism
2. Ethnic Economy
Population(s):
1. Asian
2. Chinese
Bio:
Wenhong Chen is a SSHRC postdoctoral researcher in the Department of
Sociology, Duke University. She earned her PhD in Sociology from the
University of Toronto in 2007. Her research interests include social
networks, economic sociology, and international migration. Ms. Chen’s
dissertation examined how immigrants rely on social networks and the
internet to engage in transnational entrepreneurship. Drawing on a large
dataset in the U.S., Ms. Chen is exploring the relation of ethnic diversity
in the neighborhood and social capital at the individual and the collective
level.
Rudhramoorthy Cheran
University of Windsor
Monica Chi
University of Toronto
Research Domain(s):
1. Family, Children and Youth
2. Health and Well-being
3. Justice, Policing and Security
Research Interest:
1. Social service utilization by ethnic minority
2. Mental health of ethnic minority
Population(s):
1. Older adults/elderly/seniors
2. Caribbean
3. Korean
Bio:
I am a second-year Master's of Social Work student at the University of
Toronto. I am also enrolled ina collaborative program in Aging, Palliative
and Supportive Care across the Life Course offered by the Institute for Life
Course and Aging. As part of the program, I am pursuing a Master's level
thesis entitled, "Aging Experience of Caribbean-Canadian Older Adults:
Exploring Minority Status, Aging and Service Accessibility." As indicated in
the title, I have an interest in ethnicity and service accessibility as well
as utilization as it relates to the older population.
Nora Chiang
National Taiwan University
Research Domain(s):
1. Community, Neighbourhoods and Housing
2. Citizenship and Social, Cultural and Civic Integration
Research Interest:
1. Transnational Households
2. 1.5 Generation
3. Social participation of immigrants in host country
Population(s):
1. Ethno-racial
2. Ethno-cultural
Bio:
Lan-hung Nora CHIANG (姜蘭虹) has been Professor of Geography since 1983 at
National Taiwan University. She was the former Chair of the geography
department, Director of the Population and Gender Studies Center, and
President of the Taiwan Population Association. She has published
internationally on rural-urban migration in Taiwan, tourist attitude and
behavior, environmental impact and hazard perception, cultural identity and
ecotourism, and most recently, Taiwanese immigrants in Australia. She is at
present the coordinator of the Australian Studies Centre at National Taiwan
University. From 2003-2005 she was seconded from National Taiwan University
to become the Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Pingtung
National University of Science and Technology.
Roma Chumak-Horbatsch
Ryerson University
Research Domain(s):
Education
Research Interest:
1. Maintenance of minority languages in the home
2. Immigrant parents and importance of home language
3. Language resources for minority language parents
Population(s):
1. Immigrant school aged children and their parents
2. Ukrainian language maintenance
Bio:
Dr. Roma CHUMAK-HORBATSCH B.A., O.T.C., D.C.S., M.A., Ph.D.
B.A. University of Toronto
O.T.C. Ontario Teaching Certificate
D.C.S. Diploma in Child Study: Primary School Specialist Certificate,
Institute of Child Study, University of Toronto
M.A. Eliot-Pearson School of Child Study, Tufts University
Ph.D. Modern Language Centre: OISE, University of Toronto
Dr. Chumak-Horbatsch teaches child development (language and cognitive)
undergraduate courses at Ryerson's School of Early Childhood Education. She
also teaches a course entitled Linguistic Issues of Minority Language
Children in the new MCS (Masters of Child Studies) program. She has a
background in child development/education with a specialization in
children's linguistic behavior. She has worked as a teacher of young
children, a master teacher supervising student teachers, a Pre-primary and
Primary level Consultant with the TCDSB (Toronto Catholic District School
Board), a Teaching Assistant at the Eliot Pearson School of Child Study and
an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Education, University of
Saskatchewan. Her research interests include: children's acquisition and
development of language in the home and school contexts, bilingualism and
linguistic diversity in the classroom and the maintenance of minority
languages. In addition to her research, presented at international forums
(International Association for the Study of Child Language, International
Society of Applied Psycholinguistics) Dr. Chumak-Horbatsch has prepared
Language Arts materials for Ukrainian Heritage language Programs. Current
work focuses on linguistic behaviors (language proficiency, dominance,
preference, attitudes) of children newly arrived from Eastern Europe.
Laura Cleghorn
University of Toronto
Research Domain(s):
1. Community, Neighbourhoods and Housing
2. Health and Well-being
Research Interest:
1. Ethnicity, aging and health
2. housing and homelessness
Population(s):
all
Bio:
Laura Cleghorn is a Research Associate at the Institute for Life Course and
Aging at the University of Toronto. At the Institute, she has coordinated a
number of projects on homelessness, housing and older adults. She has also
been involved in the development of a research program on ethnicity, aging
and health at the Institute. Additional areas of interest include
immigration programs and policies, and linguistic and cultural difference.
Laura has an MA in Sociology and Equity Studies from the University of
Toronto.
Nel Coloma-Moya
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto (OISE/UT)
Honey Crossley
Working Skills Centre
Douglas Cumming
York University
Research Domain(s):
1. Economic and Labour Market Integration
Research Interest:
1. Public Policy
2. Entrepreneurship
3. Economics & Finance
Bio:
Douglas Cumming, B.Com. (Hons.) (McGill), M.A. (Queen’s), J.D. (University
of Toronto Faculty of Law), Ph.D. (Toronto), CFA, is an Associate Professor
of Finance and Entrepreneurship and the Ontario Research Chair at the
Schulich School of Business, York University. He has previously taught at
the University of Alberta School of Business, the University of New South
Wales School of Banking and Finance, and the Lally School of Management and
Technology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He has held the following
Visiting Professorships: ABN AMRO Bank Visiting Professor of Finance at the
University of Amsterdam Graduate School of Business (2002, 2003), Center for
Financial Studies, University of Frankfurt Visiting Scholar (2004),
University of Cambridge ESRC Centre for Business Research Judge Institute of
Management Visiting Scholar (2004), and Visiting Fellow of Clare Hall,
Cambridge (2004). His research is primarily focused on law and finance,
entrepreneurship, venture capital, private equity and IPOs, with a focus on
public policy and international differences across Europe, North America and
the Asia-Pacific. His work has been presented at the American Finance
Association, the European Finance Association, the American Law and
Economics Association, and other leading international conferences. His
recent publications in have appeared or are forthcoming in the American Law
and Economics Review, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Entrepreneurship
Theory and Practice, European Financial Management, Financial Management,
International Review of Law and Economics, Journal of Banking and Finance,
Journal of Business, Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of Corporate
Finance, Journal of Corporate Law Studies, Oxford Economic Papers, Review of
Industrial Organization, Review of Financial Studies,
University of Toronto Law Journal, and Willamette Law Review. He was the
recipient of the 2004 Ido Sarnat Award for the best paper published in the
Journal of Banking and Finance for a paper on full and partial venture
capital exits in Canada and the United States. He is a research associate
with AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies and the Groupe
d'Economie Mondiale at Sciences Po (Paris), Capital Markets CRC (Sydney),
Venture Capital Experts (New York), Cambridge University ESRC Center for
Business Research, Center for Financial Studies (Frankfurt), Amsterdam
Center for Research in International Finance, and the University of Calgary
Van Horne Institute. He has also consulted for a variety of governmental and
private organizations in Australasia, Europe and North America.
Wei Wei Da
Brescia University College at the University of Western Ontario
Research Domain(s):
1. Citizenship and Social, Cultural and Civic Integration
2. Education
3. Community, Neighbourhoods and Housing
Research Interest:
1. Immigration, culture and ethnicity
2. Immigrant families - gender relations, childrearing
3. Ethnicity and Aging
Population(s):
1. Chinese (Mandarin-speaking) immigrants
2. Asians
3. Elderly immigrants
Bio:
Wei Wei Da, assistant professor at Brescia University College at University
of Western Ontario in London Ontario, received her PhD in Sociology from the
University of Sydney, Australia in 2001. Her thesis examined the impact of
migration on family practices among recent migrants from the People’s
Republic of China to Australia. Her research interests include immigrant
families, gender relations, ethnicity and aging, childrearing practices and
social support networks with a focus on comparative family dynamics and the
transnational family practices of the Chinese Diaspora. Current research
projects:
• Childrearing practices among recent Chinese immigrant women living in
London Ontario
• Socio-cultural adaptation, nutrition, health and successful aging of older
immigrants in London, Ontario
Paula De Coito
Social Planning Council of Peel
Research Domain(s):
Community, Neighbourhoods and Housing
Marie-José Dealberto
University of Ottawa
Research Domain(s):
1. Citizenship and Social, Cultural and Civic Integration
2. Health and Well-being
3. Welcoming Communities: Building Capacity in Regions, Cities, and
Neighbourhoods
Research Interest:
1. Increased risk of psychosis observed in immigrants
2. Sociocultural and neurobiological causes
3. Access to mental health for immigrants
Population(s):
Immigrants
Bio:
Born in France, I studied medicine in Lyon and did my residency in
psychiatry in Lyon and Paris then worked as a psychiatrist in inpatient and
outpatient hospital services. In 1994 practice I began a training in
research and obtained a PhD in Public Health and Epidemiology. The topic of
my thesis was the relationship between sleep disorders and cognitive
functioning. I went to Yale University for a post-doc and worked on the
epidemiology of benzodiazepine use and the effect of this medication on
cognitive functioning using the New Haven data of the Epidemiologic
Catchment Area.
I came to Canada in 2000 and began working as an academic psychiatrist in
Ottawa. The high number of francophone African patients with psychosis in my
clinical practice triggered my interest in the increased risk for psychosis
in immigrants and I initiated a research program on this topic, which is
ideally suited to my double expertise in psychiatry and epidemiology. Three
different Canadian datasets confirm the increased risk for psychosis in
black subjects reported by European studies. My current research interests
reside in the clinical differences in psychotic symptoms according to ethnic
origin and in the mechanisms which would explain the increased risk for
psychosis in immigrants. I also advocate in the community regarding the
urgent need for special programs designed to improve immigrants’ mental
health.
Colleen-Marie Dempsey
Citizenship and Immigration Canada
Research Domain(s):
Economic and Labour Market Integration
Research Interest:
1. Economic integration of immigrants
2. Workplace and organizational change
3. Social networks
Bio:
My broad interests are in work and the transformation of work. My formal
qualifications are in work and social networks. I am interested in issues
that lie at the intersection of work, social networks, technology and
immigration. My research experience falls in three main areas: work and its
transformation under the impact of technology, work and the economic
integration of immigrants, and labour relations.
I have started my professional career researching labour relations in
Eastern Europe. I have participated in several large-scale surveys as well
as a case study in this area based in Bulgaria. During my doctoral studies
at the University of Toronto, I became interested in new technologies and
later in immigration: two crucial factors contributing to the transformation
of work that are also highly salient in Canadian workplace reality. I have
done a number of projects that focused on the implications of new
technologies for work and collaborative practices – my second area of
research. For instance, I have examined how corporate teleworkers work
together from a distance (Telework project), how the participants in a
Centre of Excellence initiated and conducted collaborative research (Network
Mapping and Development project), or how community members in a Toronto
neighbourhood worked from home (Connected Lives project). My third area of
research focuses on the economic integration of immigrants. As an immigrant,
I have always been personally interested in the related social issues.
Teaching for several years in the area of Race and Ethnicity have
strengthened my interests. I have joined the Racialization of Poverty
project at Scadding Court Community Centre and became a member of the Income
and Employment Security work group. I am hoping to examine how immigrants
from different communities use their networks look for a job. I am also
interested in the implications of the recent initiatives of the provincial
government for the employment opportunities of internationally trained
individuals. At the moment, I am also conducting a survey on diverse
composition of unionized employees in Toronto (Labour Diversity project) for
the Labour Community Services.
I have done both quantitative research (surveys, secondary analysis) and
qualitative research (case studies, grounded theory analysis, field
observation). As well, I have expertise in Social Networks Approach.
Weizhen Dong
University of Waterloo
Research Domain(s):
1. Citizenship and Social, Cultural and Civic Integration
2. Health and Well-being
Research Interest:
1. Health care systems
2. Cultural competency in health care
3. Ethnic organizations' role in public health
Population(s):
1. Chinese-Canadian
2. Asian-Canadian
Bio:
Professor Weizhen Dong is a sociologist from the University of Waterloo. Her
research areas include health care financing, social policy, cultural
competency in health care, and knowledge transfer (research-policy
translation). She teaches courses such as sociology of health, comparative
health care systems, and social research methods.
Professor Dong received her MA from the Institute of Social Studies, The
Hague; and her PhD from University of Toronto. She was a Lupina Fellow with
the Comparative Program for Health and Society, Munk Centre for
International Studies, U of T; and the Rudolf Virchow Memorial Postdoctoral
Fellow with the CIHR-Institute of Population and Public Health/University of
Toronto-Centre for Health Promotion. Dr. Dong is also a regular visiting
professor at the State Innovative Institute for Public Management and Public
Policy Studies at Fudan University.
Michael Doucet
Ryerson University
Research Domain(s):
Community, Neighbourhoods and Housing
Debbie Douglas
Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants (OCASI)
Research Domain(s):
Community, Neighbourhoods and Housing
Howard Duncan
Citizenship and Immigration Canada
