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. Jim Stanford
Director
Centre for Future Work
Dr. Jim Stanford is Economist and Director of the Centre for Future Work, based at the Australia Institute. The Australia Institute is Australia’s most influential progressive think tank; the Centre for Future Work focuses on issues of work, labour markets, income, economic development,...
Dr. Diana Parry
Professor; Associate Vice-President Human Rights, Equity and Inclusion
University of Waterloo
Dr. Diana Parry is Professor and Associate Vice-President Human Rights, Equity and Inclusion at University of Waterloo. As a feminist scholar, she uses her research to advance a social justice agenda by advocating for a holistic understanding and conceptualization of health for women, focusing on...
Dr. Regine Bendl
Professor; Head
Institute for Gender and Diversity in Organizations
Dr. Regine Bendl is Professor and Head of the Institute for Gender and Diversity in Organizations. She was visiting research fellow at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Oxford University and Auckland University of Technology. She got several national and international awards for her research....
Dr. Cynthia Wesley-Esquimaux
Chair on Truth and Reconciliation
Lakehead University
Dr. Cynthia Wesley-Esquimaux is the Chair on Truth and Reconciliation at Lakehead University, ON. Her research and academic writing is directed towards understanding the continuing transmission of unresolved intergenerational trauma and grief primarily within the Indigenous community of Canada. She...
Dr. Glenda Quintini
Senior Economist
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Dr. Glenda Quintini is a senior economist at OECD, overseeing the work on skills carried out by the Employment Labour and Social Affairs Directorate. In her role, Glenda leads a team of economists looking at how skill needs are changing in the labour market and identifying effective policy...
Dr. Luanne Freund
Associate Professor; Director
iSchool (Library, Archival and Information Studies), University of British Columbia
Dr. Luanne Freund is an Associate Professor at the iSchool (Library, Archival and Information Studies) at the University of British Columbia and has served as Director since 2015. Dr. Freund teaches courses on information retrieval, information services and open data. Her research is primarily...
Dr. Wendy Cukier
Founder and Academic Director
Diversity Institute,Ted Rogers School of Management, Ryerson University
Dr. Wendy Cukier is one of Canada’s leading experts in disruptive technologies, innovation processes, and diversity. She has written more than 200 papers on technology, innovation, and management and is coauthor of the bestseller “Innovation Nation: Canadian Leadership from Java to Jurassic...
Jocelyn Formsma
Executive Director
National Association of Friendship Centres (NAFC)
Jocelyn Formsma is the Executive Director of the National Association of Friendship Centres (NAFC). Ms. Formsma is a member of the Moose Cree First Nation in Northern Ontario. She holds an Honours Bachelor of Social Sciences and a Juris Doctorate from the University of Ottawa. Ms. Formsma has over...
Dr. Binod Sundararajan
Associate Director
Rowe School of Business, Dalhousie University
Dr. Binod Sundararajan is the Associate Director of the Rowe School of Business, Faculty of Management at Dalhousie University. He teaches Sustainable Leadership & Managing People at the MBA level, and Business Communication, Corporate Communications, & International and Interpersonal Management at...
