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Dr. Yasmeen Abu-Laban Is Professor of Political Science at the University Of VFC: Presenter Biographies Presenter Biographies: Dr. Yasmeen Abu-Laban is Professor of Political Science at the University of Alberta, specializing in ethnic and gender politics; nationalism, globalization and processes of racialization; immigration policies and politics; multiculturalism and anti-racism; human rights; and citizenship theory. She has published extensively on these subjects, including as co-author of Selling Diversity: Immigration, Multiculturalism, Employment Equity and Globalization (2002). Dr. Mehdi Ammi is an Assistant Professor in the School of Public Policy and Administration at Carleton University. Dr. Ammi’s research crosses the fields of health economics, applied microeconometrics, and health policy. He is particularly interested in how resources are allocated in the health care system in Canada, and whether or not this allocation is efficient. He is currently the principle investigator for a project titled 'The Impact of Regionalization on Health Care Accessibility in Canada,' which is funded by a SSHRC Internal Development Grant. Dr. Hugh Armstrong is a Distinguished Research Professor and Professor Emeritus of Social Work and Political Economy at Carleton University. His research spans a variety of topics related to the political economy of health and health care. He has authored and edited over a dozen books on these subjects. Sherry Aske is a News Editor, Presenter and Producer with CBC Ottawa. She is a graduate of the Carleton School of Journalism and Communication with a Master’s degree in Communication Studies. Her research looked at the impact the digital transition is having on journalists, news consumers and the industry at large. Dr. Richard Baker completed his PhD in Political Science at Carleton University, a Post- Doctoral Fellowship with the Department of Politics and International Relations at Mount Allison University, and has taught in the Department of Political Science at the University of Victoria. His research focuses on the critical geopolitics of Canada-United States relations, and his current book project explores the role that Canada plays in the US geopolitical imagination. Dr. Rena Bivens completed her PhD with the Glasgow Media Group at the University of Glasgow, and is now Assistant Professor of Communication at Carleton University. Dr. Bivens held a SSHRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Pauline Jewett Institute of Women's and Gender Studies at Carleton University and was a Banting Fellow in the School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton. Dr. Bivens' research explores and interrogates normative design practices which are embedded in media technologies using a critical race and gender lens. Jennifer Boland is a PhD candidate in communication studies at the School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University. She is interested in research questions related to the people, practices, and politics of unexamined audiences, and her work explores a broad range of receptive and reactive practices to popular culture, including lurking audiences and suspicious audiences. Dr. Randy Boswell is Assistant Professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University. Dr. Boswell has been shortlisted for the Pierre Berton Award, Canada’s top prize for popularizing Canadian history. He was also the 2010 winner of the Yves Fortier Earth 1 VFC: Presenter Biographies Science Journalism Award and was co-writer of a 1997 National Newspaper Award-nominated special project on Gatineau Park. He continues to write history-related news stories on a freelance basis. Dr. Miranda J. Brady is an Associate Professor in the School of Journalism and Communication and a Co-Director of the Centre for Indigenous Research, Culture, Language, and Education (CIRCLE). Her teaching and research focus on the construction of Indigenous identity in the media and cultural institutions like museums. Her co-authored book with John Medicine Horse Kelly, We Interrupt This Program: Indigenous Media Tactics in Canadian Culture is forthcoming with UBC Press in 2017. Dr. Susan Braedley is Associate Professor in the School of Social Work at Carleton University. Dr. Braedley is a leading scholar in the political economy of health care, long-term care, and ageing in Canada. She has published extensively on issues related to care and social reproduction throughout the life course. She is also currently involved in two international research projects designed to explore aging in residential places ('Health Ageing in Residential Places') and to identify healthy practices for both residents and employees in long-term residential care ('Re- imagining Long-Term Residential Care: An International Study of Promising Practices'). Dr. Janine Brodie is a Distinguished Professor and Canada Research Chair in Political Economy and Social Governance at the University of Alberta. Dr. Brodie is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. She is editor or author of ten books, covering topics from women and politics in Canada to Canadian regionalism. Dr. Brodie is especially known for her outstanding scholarship on gender and politics, political economy, citizenship and social policy, and governing paradigms. Dr. Chris Brown is Professor in the Department of Political Science and Program Director of the Bachelor of Global and International Studies at Carleton University. Dr. Brown specializes in the politics of Africa, and has worked in Botswana and Ghana as a local government policy advisor and development planner. Dr. Doris Buss is Professor in the Department of Law and Legal Studies at Carleton University. Dr. Buss teaches and researches in the areas of international law, women's rights, global social movements, and feminist theory. She is particularly concerned with how gender equality and women's rights are framed and contested in different international legal, regulatory, and policy sites. Dr. Julia Calvert is a recent graduate of the doctoral program at the Department of Political Science at Carleton University. Dr. Calvert's research focuses on Canada's foreign investment promotion strategies and implementation in Latin America, and employs an international political economy lens to interrogate critically these practices. Dr. Stephanie Carvin is an Assistant Professor in the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University. Dr. Carvin teaches and researches in the areas of international affairs, domestic and international security, and critical infrastructure protection. Dr. Carvin also maintains a public profile, contributing to greater public debates about international politics and affairs through both blog posts and journalistic pieces. 2 VFC: Presenter Biographies Duncan Cass-Beggs is Director of Policy Horizons Canada, where he leads scanning and foresight activities to identify emerging policy issues for the strategic policy community within the Government of Canada. He has a particular focus on medium-term challenges and the development of innovative solutions. Dr. Andrea Chandler is Professor in the Department of Political Science at Carleton University. Her fields of research are politics and government in Russia and Soviet successor states, comparative politics of social welfare reform, and gender and politics in post-communist states. She is the author of three books, the most recent of which is titled Democracy, Gender and Social Policy in Russia: a Wayward Society (2013). Larry Chartrand is a Professor in the Faculty of Law – Common Law Section at the University of Ottawa. Dr. Chartrand’s expertise crosses the fields of education, law, and Indigenous rights in Canada, with a particular focus on Métis rights, Aboriginal governance and politics, residential schools, and Aboriginal Constitutional law. He has published two books and several articles on these subjects. He is also currently serving as President, Adjudicator, and Founding Member of the Indigenous Bar Association Scholarship Foundation. Dr. Elizabeth Cobbett is a lecturer of international relations and international political economy in the School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communications Studies at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. Dr. Cobbett completed her doctoral dissertation, 'South Africa in the New World Order: Power, Finance and Society,' in 2012 at Carleton University, and has continued to research in the area of the political economy of global finance within the African context since then. Louise Cockram is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Political Science at Carleton University. She is currently the research lead on a project with the Springtide Collective. This project aims to promote democratic renewal in Nova Scotia by interviewing former MLAs to gain insight into the challenges and successes of being an MLA in the Nova Scotia Legislature. John Coleman is a Senior Fellow at the School of Public Policy and Administration and a fellow at the TPIC. He worked at the National Research Council of Canada for 30 years in a number of roles including General Manager of Surface Transportation Institute and acting VP Engineering. Amanda Connolly is a foreign policy and defence reporter for iPolitics. She spent two years reporting for the CBC’s Calgary digital team. She was among the digital team members honoured with awards for their cross-platform coverage of the Alberta floods. Amanda graduated from Carleton University's Bachelor of Journalism program in 2012 with high honours and has also contributed to the Vancouver Observer, CBC The House and Avenue Magazine.
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