Dr. Caroline Erentzen

Dr. Erentzen has a Ph.D. in experimental social psychology from York University with a specialisation in forensic and legal applications. She also has a law degree from Queen’s University with a focus on human rights and criminal law. Her postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Toronto, centred on studying prejudice and intergroup attitudes toward marginalised identities. 

Her main research areas focus on the intersection of law and social psychology and the mechanisms underlying perceptions of victims of prejudice, hate crime, and legal inequality. She has also studied gender-based violence and sexual harassment, including intimate partner violence, sexual assault, and strangersexual harassment at street level and online, funded by a SSHRC Insight Grant. She was recently awarded a Faculty of Arts teaching award for her work as a contract lecturer for the very popular Psychology and Law course in the Department of Psychology. 

"I am delighted to join Toronto Metropolitan University at such an exciting time of development and growth. I am looking forward to joining the Psychology and Law community at TMU and I am excited at the opportunity for collaboration and research. TMU has a clear dedication to social justice and equity initiatives, which I believe is a real strength of the University and has contributed to a culture of inclusion and excellence."