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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.
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Dr. Jack Jedwab
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...
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Dr. Eddy Ng
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...
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Dr. Bryan Evans
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,...
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Dr. Abby Goodrum
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...
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Dr. Pernille Bjørn
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...
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Dr. Gordon Cooke
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)....
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Dr. Howard Duncan
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...
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Dr. Jonathan Turner
Dr. Jonathan Turner co-founded and now serves as Past Chair of the Graduate and Postdoctoral Development Network. For the past seven years he has worked in university administration, primarily with graduate students and postdocs to help them explore what careers align with their academic...
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Steven Tobin
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...