Core Research Team

  • Salar Asadolahi

    UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO

    Salar is a PhD candidate specializing in comparative politics and public policy. 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.

  • Gözde Böcü

    UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO

    Gözde is a PhD student in Political Science specializing in comparative politics and international relations.

  • Sophie Borwein

    SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

    Sophie is an Assistant Professor in the School of Public Policy at SFU. Her research seeks to understand how economic inequality shapes political preferences and government policy responsiveness.

  • Evelyn Chong

    UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO

    Evelyn is a recent graduate of the Master of Public Policy program at U of T. Her research interests include intersectional social policy, gender and sexuality, mental health, and accessibility

  • Arees Chooljian

    UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO

    Arees is a senior undergraduate student double majoring in philosophy and political science. His research interests include school choice, global economic governance, and education law.

  • 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.

  • Jim Farney

    UNIVERSITY OF REGINA

    Jim is Director and Associate Professor at the Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy. His research interests are Canadian party politics, political institutions, and religion and politics.

  • 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. goes here

  • 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.

  • Phil Triadafilopoulos

    UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO

    Phil is an Associate Professor of Political Science. His research focuses on how immigration and citizenship policies reflect and reconfigure boundaries of national belonging in liberal-democratic states.

  • 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.

  • Pamoda Wijekoon

    UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO

    Pamoda is a recent graduate of the Master of Public Policy program at U of T. Her research interests include immigration, cultural, and environmental policy.

Affiliates

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Anne West

    LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS

    Anne is s Professor of Education Policy. She researches education policy and early childhood education and care in England.