Contacts

Interests: Organizations, Occupations, Professions and Education

Director, Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), City Life and Well-being: The Grey Zone of Health and Illness

Interests: Radical Interpretive Theory and Methodology (e.g, Ethnomethodology, Hermeneutics, Analysis), Culture, (e.g., Health, City, Urban/Rural, Ancient Athens), Power (e.g., Parent/Child), Socratic Tradition of Inquiry

Interests: Security, Policing, Resilience, Urban Governance, Emergencies & Disasters and Public Safety.

Interests: International Law, Global Justice, Political/Social Theory and Law

Interests: historical relation between law and capitalism that combines legal theory and political economy.

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Patrick's dissertation research examines frontline social interactions between border services officers (BSOs) and members of various travelling publics. (Funded by a SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship)

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Laura’s dissertation research focuses on governance, mobility politics, asylum, and social justice. Specifically, she critically examines the irregularization of refugee claimants in Toronto’s everyday spaces and places, and how such processes are negotiated and contested.

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Youth crime, Social networks, Female delinquency

Interests: Population health, social inequality and the life course. Jointly appointed in the Department of Sociology and Legal Studies and School of Public Health and Health Systems. Cross appointed to the School of Pharmacy.

Interests: Terrorism, Sociology of Religion, and Sociological Theory

Interests: Criminology, Legal Studies

Interests: Sociology of Health, Social Determinants of Health, Comparative Health Care Systems, Health, Illness and Society

Interests: Sociology of (higher) education; School-to-Work transitions; Quantitative and mixed methods; Social and public policy; Social stratification and inequality.

Dissertation Topic Description: Brittany’s doctoral research examines the employment pathways of recent Canadian PhD graduates in the social sciences through a national, institutional, and individual-level approach. In particular, it aims to identify the specific industry-related pathways graduates secure, as most research has focused extensively on obtaining academic employment. As a growing number of graduates obtain non-academic employment, it is important to inform current PhD students of viable career options they can pursue upon graduation, and to aid in removing the stigma associated with obtaining an industry career.

Interests: Individual and group offending dynamics, substance use, social networks, drug dealing/smuggling

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Jamal's doctoral research examines topics of sport regulation and policy.

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Sport Regulation, Policy, Sport and Society, Health and Safety, Sociology of Sport, Law and Society, Governance, Research Methods.

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Cathlene's doctoral research examines macro- and micro- understandings of parent engagement and its relationship to children's literacy achievement.  Funded by a SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship.

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Sociology of Education, Sociology of the Family & Childhood, Inequality, Organizations, Qualitative and Quantitative Methods

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Michael's research examines the relationship between low socio-economic status (SES) of families and children's literacy.

Research area - Socciology of education; inequality; economic sociology; comparative and mixed methods.

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Sociology of Home, Chinese Immigrants, Interpretive Sociology, Social Statistics

Interests: Migration and Mobilities; Refugees; Citizenship; Humanitarianism; Critical Development Studies.

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Interpretive Sociology, Heritage, Museums, Culture, Art

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Patrick's dissertation research examines frontline social interactions between border services officers (BSOs) and members of various travelling publics. (Funded by a SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship)

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Carlie's doctoral research examines the mother-child program in relation to larger trends in penal governance, particularly the shift from penal welfare to neoliberal political rationalities

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penal regimes, mother-child, empowerment, neoliberalism, gendered discipline 

Interests: History of Education; Sociology of Education; Gender, Democracy and Schooling; The Teaching Profession; Civics Curriculum; Global Citizenship Education; Oral History; Qualitative Methods

Interests: Canadian Political Economy, Primary Resources, Sociology of the Family, Rural Sociology, Social Change, Gender, Feminist and Marxian Theory

Interests: Social Networks, Sociology of Science and Science Policy, Information Science, Computational Social Science, Political Sociology, Environmental Sociology, Research Methods

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Drawing on a qualitative examination of senior high school students enrolled in an after-school enrichment program in the inner-city, Rod's research examines how they make choices about their educational careers and the experiences of those students who decide to transition into postsecondary.

Research area - Sociology of education; higher education marketing; work and occupations.

Interests: Surveillance, Security, Policing, Technology, Social Control / Regulation, Privacy, Human Rights. 

Interests: Criminology, Victimology, Sexuality and the Law, Gender

RDC Analyst, South Western Ontario Research Data Centre, Department of Sociology, University of Waterloo

Interests: Analysis of Complex Survey Data

Interests: Security and Policing, Borders and Governance, Regulation and Law, Social Theory

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Manjit's research focuses on how the South Asian gang phenomenon in Western Canada has been problematized and governed by authorities and how various stakeholders (government and non-government actors) problematize risk..

Interests: Gender Inequality and Homelessness, Single Parents Mental Health, Aboriginal Poverty and Canada's Furr-Families: The Role of Pets in the Health and Well-Being of Canadians.

Interests: Symbolic Interaction, Social Psychology, Deviance, Classical Greek and Latin Scholarship, Rhetoric, Religion, Poetics and Entertainment, Education and Scholarship, Philosophy, Ethnohistory, Marketplace Activity, Management

website:  www.andreaquinlan.net

Interests: Transition to adulthood; identity resolution; youth and risk-taking; eating disorders; mental health; primary healthcare evaluation; furries

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Currently Rowland’s doctoral research draws upon the techniques of autoethnography and border thinking/border gnosis to examine the formation of First Nations & Native American identity within the biopolitical, affective, juridical and philosophical imaginings of the United States & Canada through his own lived experiences as a diasporic, urban and liminaly enrolled Indigenous person. Rowland’s work situates this identity formation within the structures of settler colonialism, in particular the logic of elimination, and examines how the official means by which it takes place effects a “biogenic extension of frontier homicide.” He also examines how self-determined and decolonial notions of identity within contemporary Indigenous community both mesh with and exist beyond official categorization, as well as the processes of new Indigenous identity formation, in particular within the urban setting.

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Critical Indigenous Studies; Settler Colonial Studies; Coloniality & Modernity; Decoloniality & Decolonial Theory; Phenomenology; Genealogical Critique; Indigenous Identity; Politics of Refusal; Grounded Normativity; Biopower & Biopolitics; Ideology & Hegemony; Affect Studies & Affect Theory; Critique of Political Ontology; Historical Materialism.

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Kanika's doctoral research will explore the factors that contribute to the formation of youth perceptions of social injustice and how these perceptions of injustice impact criminal behavior and other life outcomes.

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Juvenile Delinquency, Policing, Social Inequality, Criminal Justice Process 

Brian's dissertation research looks at the intersection between surveillance and new media. Specifically, he is interested in how software has come to structure identity politics and activism both online and off.  

Interests: Policing, Criminology, Youth justice, Quantitative and qualitative research methods

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Krystle's dissertation research explores the obscuring of protective and security-based surveillance practices and how these practices relate to broader trends in power and governance. She is specifically examining the deployment of wearable location tracking technology by police in order to track people who have cognitive impairments.

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Krystle's research interests broadly concern the fields of policing and surveillance, and more specifically include critically examining the use of police surveillance technologies (e.g., police body-worn cameras, wearable location tracking devices). Krystle is also interested in the hegemonic and counter-hegemonic dimensions of various trends within academia, such as the contemporary push for research collaboration and knowledge mobilization.

Interests: Post-Colonial Feminist Thought, Gender Violence, Civil Society-State Relations, Governance and Regulation, Sociology of Law, Criminology

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Policing, Policing Strategies, HR management, organizational theory, research methods.

Interests: Border criminology; immigration detention; deportation; punishment; parole and re-entry; postcolonial, antiracist, and feminist thought; critical border and migration studies; qualitative research methods

Interests: Methodology and Statistics, Rural Sociology, Social Psychology, Environment and Resources

Interests:  Sociology of Digital Media, Governance of Online Spaces; Game and Software Studies, Surveillance Studies, Qualitative Methods

Interests: sociology of religion; quantitative methods; Canadian studies; immigration and ethnicity; social change; political sociology

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Policing, police discretion and decision-making, policing strategies, homicide studies, socio-legal responses to crime, research methods. Funded by a SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship.

School of Criminology, University of Montreal.
Project entitled: “Creating Social Education on Jihadism: A Way to Counter Violent Extremism.” co-supervised by Dr. Lorne Dawson, Professor, Department of Sociology and Legal Studies, University of Waterloo and Project Director, Canadian Network for Research on Terrorism, Security and Society and Dr. Vivek Venkatesh, Associoate Professor of Education, Concordia University, UNESCO co-Chair in Prevention of Radicalisation and Violent Extremism, and Director, Centre for the Study of Learning and Performance.  

Research Interests: Criminology, Domestic Violence

Research Supervisor: Dr. Rashmee Singh

Interests: Jurisprudence and Critical Legal Theory; Labour Migration Law; Employment and Labour Law; Transformative Law and Economics; The Idea of Nation, Citizenship and Home; De-coloniality and Post-structuralism; Eco-philosophy, Ecology and Law