Our Questions
We specialize in transformative social research. Social justice is at the core of our research questions. Check out our faculty profiles to learn more about what we do.
Damien Lee is investigating the resurgence of Indigenous political and legal orders
Eva Jewell is exploring support for the resurgence of customary governance practices in Indigenous communities
Hayden King is studying the practical strategies First Nation communities deploy to reclaim land and resources
Cheryl Teelucksingh is working to advance environmental justice in urban spaces
Heather Rollwagen investigates housing, perceptions of crime, and neighbourhood livability in urban areas
Nicole Neverson, Camille Hernández-Ramdwar, Doreen Fumia, Amina Jamal and Mélanie Knight describe (PDF file) how to make post-secondary teaching and learning more inclusive.
Jean Golden has spent 35+ years working on equity policies and curricular innovation for university and community groups
Amina Jamal highlights the new types of citizen-subjects that are emerging in our changing global economic, political and cultural relations
Conely de Leon is studying transnational circulations of care and emotional labour among Filipino/a/x migrant workers
Camille Hernández-Ramdwar studies Caribbean cultures and identities, including diasporic and second generation identities
Anna Triandafyllidou is considering migration and migrant integration in relation to the wider socio-economic and geopolitical transformations that characterise the 21st century
Mélanie Knight’s research focuses on Black activism/organizing, Black collective economic initiatives, Black women business owners and anti-Black racism.
Rai Reece examines how carceral processes reflect practices of colonial violence specific to anti-Black and anti-Indigenous racism
Megan Scribe studies how legal and literary narratives influence the lives of Indigenous girls living under Canadian colonial occupation
Chris Powell theorizes about radical projects of social transformation, such as distributed-network models of social movement organizing
Jacqui Gingras investigates how citizens and health care professionals engage in social health movements
Alan Sears studies the various ways that activists engage in movements for social justice
Paul Moore studies how the emergence of a ‘movie-going’ public helped to provide spaces, rhetorics, and logics for collective gathering
Nicole Neverson's work is grounded in the areas of critical mass media analysis and interrogates the mediated representation of marginalized groups
Stephen Muzzatti examines the mediated realities of crime and consumerism, and considers how they foster inequality and exclusion
Pamela Sugiman investigates how racist Canadian state policies have multi-generational effects in the lives of Japanese Canadians
Patrizia Albanese studies how state policies affect children, youth and families
Mustafa Koç studies how government policies in Canada and in Turkey have shaped people’s access to food
Andie Noack considers how state agencies' practices of survey design constrain who is knowable to policy makers