Biography
I am an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Guelph. I hold a Canada Research Chair in Critical Community Engagement and Public Policy (Tier 2). I am a co-Director of the Grounded and Engaged Theory (GET) Lab (https://www.getlab.ca/) and a faculty advisor at the Community Engaged Scholarship Institute (https://www.cesinstitute.ca/). My research program focuses on the intersections between critical community-engaged scholarship and public policy. My collaborations are informed by intersectional and participatory democratic praxis. I am interested in 1) exploring how community engaged scholarship (CES) can become more critical and attentive to the knowledges and practices of systemically marginalized communities; 2) fostering innovations in public policymaking through critical CES; and 3) facilitating critical CES capacity-building. I am involved with several collaborative projects that consider how public policy-making processes and outcomes can be more attentive to the experiences and knowledges of invisible and hyper-visible communities, and welcome students working in these areas.
Photo credit: Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation / Joana Bezeau | Photographe et vidéaste | Québec / Canada.
