Network
The Future Skills Research Network is an expanding and diverse group of scholars, experts, practitioners and other stakeholders actively engaged in research on future skills and the future of work. This national network is helping to inform and advance the Future Skills Centre’s research agenda by providing access to network members’ deep experience with skills development and their subject matter and methodological expertise. The Future Skills Research Network is also designed to help facilitate knowledge sharing and spark collaborations between members, both as a part of the Centre’s work as well as the wider future skills research agenda.
Dr. Jack Jedwab
President; Chair
Association for Canadian Studies; Metropolis Canada
Dr. Jack Jedwab is the President of the Association for Canadian Studies, Montreal. He is the chair of Metropolis Canada which runs the largest national conference on Immigration and Integration. Holding a Ph.D. in Canadian History from Concordia University, he has taught at McGill University and...
Dr. Eddy Ng
James and Elizabeth Freeman Professor of Management
Bucknell University
Formerly Professor and F.C. Manning Chair in Economics and Business at Dalhousie University, Dr. Ng is a globally recognized expert on diversity and inclusion in the workplace who has recently joined Bucknell University. His research covers a range of broad issues relevant to human resources and...
Dr. Bryan Evans
Professor
Department of Politics and Public Administration, Ryerson University
Dr. Bryan Evans is professor, Department of Politics and Public Administration, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada. Prior to his academic appointment he worked as a policy advisor and policy unit manager in the Ontario Public Service (Ministry of Labour, Ministry of Community and Social Services,...
Dr. Abby Goodrum
Professor; Program Co-ordinator
User Experience Design, Wilfrid Laurier University
Dr. Abby Goodrum is Professor and Program Co-ordinator for User Experience Design at Wilfrid Laurier University,Waterloo. Prior to her appointment at Laurier, she held the Rogers Research Chair in News, Media, and Technology at Ryerson University. For more than 20 years, her research has focused on...
Dr. Pernille Bjørn
Professor
Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen
Dr. Pernille Bjørn research interest is to investigate the basic nature of collaborative work with the aim of designing collaborative technologies – her main research area is Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW). Since 2002 Dr. Bjørn has explored CSCW research agendas within different...
Dr. Gordon Cooke
Associate Professor
Faculty of Business Administration, Memorial University
Dr. Gordon B. Cooke is an Associate Professor of Industrial Relations in the Faculty of Business Administration at Memorial University of Newfoundland. His primary area of research is non-standard work arrangements (e.g. temporary, on-call, casual jobs and all types of work scheduling variations)....
Dr. Howard Duncan
Executive Head
Metropolis Secretariat, Carleton University
Dr. Howard Duncan is the Executive Head of the Metropolis Secretariat in Ottawa, located at Carleton University. Since joining Metropolis in 1997, he has focused on increasing its geographic reach, enlarging the range of the issues it confronts, and increasing its benefits to the international...
Steven Tobin
Executive Director
Labour Market Information Council (LMIC)
Steven Tobin is the Executive Director of the Labour Market Information Council whose mandate is to ensure Canadians, stakeholders and policy makers have the necessary information and insights to succeed in a changing, dynamic world of work. Before joining LMIC, Steven previously held positions at...
Dr. Emile Tompa
Senior Scientist
Institute of Work & Health
Dr. Emile Tompa is a senior scientist at the Institute for Work & Health. He holds appointments as an associate professor in the Department of Economics at McMaster University and as an assistant professor at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. He also has an...
