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. John Shields
Full Professor
Department of Politics and Public Administration, Ryerson University
Dr. John Shields is a member of the Department of Politics and Public Administration at Ryerson University. He is a Full Professor with over thirty years of university teaching and research experience and holds/held research affiliations with the Centre for Governance Studies at Simon Fraser...
Dr. Marie-Thérèse Chicha
Professor; Holder of the Ethnic Relations Chair
School of Industrial Relations, University of Montreal
Dr. Marie-Thérèse Chicha holds a Ph.D. in Economics from McGill University in Montreal. She is a professor at the School of Industrial Relations and holds the Chair in Ethnic Relations at the Université de Montréal. Dr. Chicha has written several articles and books on the following themes:...
Dr. Anil Verma
Professor
Rotman School of Management; Centre for Industrial Relations & Human Resources, University of Toronto
Dr. Anil Verma is a Professor at the Rotman School of Management, and the Centre for Industrial Relations & Human Resources, University of Toronto. He served as the Director of the Centre for Industrial Relations & Human Resources during 2009-15. He has taught previously at the University of...
Dr. Karen Bird
Professor, Political Science
Department of Political Science, McMaster University
Karen Bird is Professor of Political Science, specializing in comparative politics. Dr. Bird is Principal Investigator on a 5-year SSHRC funded research project on “Electoral Ethnic Quotas and the Politics of Representation.” This research builds new knowledge about variations in ethnic quota...
Dr. Stephen McBride
Professor; Canadian Research Chair in Public Policy and Globalization
Department of Political Science, McMaster University
Dr. Stephen McBride joined the Department of Political Science on July 1, 2010 as Professor and Canadian Research Chair in Public Policy and Globalization. He is an Associate Member of the School of Labour Studies; and a member of the Institute for Globalization and the Human Condition. He is the...
Dr. Pamela Palmater
Full Professor; Chair, Indigenous Governance
Department of Politics and Public Administration, Ryerson University
Dr. Pamela Palmater is a Mi’kmaw lawyer, professor, author, and social justice activist from Eel River Bar First Nation in New Brunswick. She has four university degrees, including a BA from St. Thomas in Native Studies; an LLB from University of New Brunswick, and her Masters and Doctorate in...
Dr. Pushkala Prasad
Zankel Chair Professor of Management and Liberal Arts
Skidmore College
Dr. Pushkala Prasad is an Indian American academic, researcher and writer. She is the Zankel Chair Professor of Management and Liberal Arts at Skidmore College. She is best known for her book Crafting Qualitative Research: Working in the Post-Positivist Traditions and her research on workplace...
Dr. Jeffrey Reitz
R.F. Harney Professor; Director of the Ethnic, Immigration and Pluralism Studies Program
Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto
Dr. Jeffrey G. Reitz (Ph.D., FRSC) is the R.F. Harney Professor and Director of the Ethnic, Immigration and Pluralism Studies Program at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto, and Professor and former Chair in the University’s Department of Sociology. He has published...
Dr. Jaigris Hodson
Associate Professor
College of Interdisciplinary Studies, Royal Roads University
Dr. Jaigris Hodson is Associate Professor in the College of Interdisciplinary Studies at Royal Roads University, BC. Her research specializes in understanding how people interact with digital technologies, such as social media, and the content that is produced and shared using those technologies....
