Labour

Labour economics (wages, employment, unemployment), labour relations (unionization, collective bargaining), social policy: education, training, income support programs (unemployment insurance, welfare)

Mark Thompson

Professor Emeritus

Marc-David Seidel, PhD, MBA, MS, BA

Director, W. Maurice Young Centre for Entrepreneurship & Venture Capital Research

Professorship in Innovation, Associate Professor, OBHR Division, Entrepreneurship and Innovation Group

Innovation, entrepreneurship, innovation ecosystems, distributed trust, blockchain, startups, social networks, immigration, discrimination, employment relationship, hiring, promotions, salary negotiation, corporate governance, director selection, telecommunications, long distance industry, airlines, travel, e-commerce

Annalee Yassi, MD, MSc, FRCPC

Professor

Director, Global Health Research Program

Canada Research Chair in Global Health and Capacity Building

Occupational health, health of health workers, international health, global health, community-based research, capacity building, Latin America, evidence-based best practices, workplace injury and illness prevention, HIV and TB prevention and care for health workers, South Africa

Danielle Van Jaarsveld

Associate Professor

Call centre management practices, employer-employee relations

Tracy L. Friedel, PhD

Retired Associate Professor

Youth resistance, non-formal learning, land-based pedagogy, place-based learning, environmental education, outdoor education, oral histories, labour history, injury prevention

Amy Hanser

Associate Professor

Work and employment, gender, consumption/consumerism, contemporary Chinese society

Kenneth Carlaw

Professor

Economic growth, Technological change, Productivity, Economic development, Measurement, Economic growth policy, Innovation/technology policy

Jamie Peck, PhD

Canada Research Chair in Urban and Regional Political Economy

Professor of Geography

Creative cities, urban policy, labour market and welfare programs, temporary employment, outsourcing

Florian Hoffmann, PhD

Assistant Professor

Labour economics, macro economics, income inequality, education, mobility

Giovanni Gallipoli, PhD

Professor

Economics, policy, inequality, crime, earnings, education, occupations, marriage, insurance, labour, supply, disability, health, matching, firms, credit, distribution

Henry Siu, PhD

Professor

Business cycle, recession, unemployment

Wendy Poole, PhD

Associate Professor

Educational leadership and administration, organizational change in education (reform of schooling), teachers’ work, teacher unions and teacher unionism, role of teacher unions in education

Sylvia Fuller

Associate Professor

Sociology, precarious employment, inequality, work, gender and work, immigration, work-family

Victoria (Vicky) Bungay, PhD, RN

Professor

Sexuality, sex work, harm reduction, drug use, intersectionality, ethnography, communication technologies, community based research

Lesley Andres

Professor

Higher education, sociology of higher education, international and comparative higher education, life course research, survey research design, longitudinal research, mixed methods research

Julien Picault

Senior Instructor

Labour economics, industrial organization, discrimination and economic education, immigration policy

Stephen Petrina, PhD

Professor of Media & Technology

Co-Director, Institute of Critical Education Studies

Academic freedom, craft, cultural history, design studies, design and technology, digital literacy, digital media, educational technology and learning technologies, environmental studies, higher education, history of education, history and philosophy of research, history of medicine, history of social sciences, maker movement, media, media studies, learning, open access, research design and methodology, subcultures, science and technology studies (STS), STEM education, technology

Christopher McLeod, MA, PhD

Associate Professor

work and health, social determinants of health, workers’ compensation, program evaluation, health policy, public policy