Events and News
2021 Virtual Speaker Series
Building Back Better: An Agenda for Progressive Public Policy
The PhD Policy Studies Speaker Series brings together distinguished scholars, activists and practitioners to provide insight on the most relevant and critical issues facing our communities today. These sessions are interactive and include a Q&A portion. The goal is to create thought-provoking dialogue around the role of policy on a range of issues important to policy studies.
Upcoming speakers
Events
Past Talks
Winter 2022
Session 4: Rethinking Labour Politics in Difficult Times, with Dr. Stephanie Ross and Dr. Larry Savage
Session 3: People, Pandemics & Priorities: Reflections from the Front Lines, with Dr. Abdu Sharkawy
Fall 2021 Series
Session 2: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency, with Seth Klein
Session 1: Reshaping the Post-Pandemic World as if People Mattered, with Linda McQuaig
Winter 2021
Session 8: Transitional Justice Plan to End Genocide in Canada, with Dr. Pamela Palmater
Session 7: The right to care in the time of COVID: The case of nursing homes, with Dr. Pat Armstrong
Session 6: The Financialization of Rental Housing and Covid-19: Capitalizing on Crisis, with Dr. Martine August
Session 5: Reckoning: #BlackLivesMatter and the Democratic Necessity of Social Movements, with Dr. Deva Woodly
Fall 2020 Series
Session 4: Are Canadian Cities Facing a Fiscal Crisis, with Dr. Enid Slack
Session 3: Does the United States Have a Democratic Future, with Bill Fletcher Jr
Session 2: Covid -19 and Cities, with Dr. Roger Keil
Session 1: Work After the Pandemic: What Has to Change, with Jim Stanford
Past Speakers
Recorded Talks
Session 4, Year 2
Session 1, Year 2
Session 5
Session 3
Session 1
News
Session 2, Year 2
Session 8
Session 4
Session 2
The Canada Graduate Scholarships to Honour Nelson Mandela was created in 2013 to celebrate his legacy of pursuing “peace, democracy, justice and freedom through learning, understanding and education.” The award, jointly administered by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), recognizes graduate students' research in the areas of national unity, democracy, freedom and human rights, leadership, children’s participation in society, and children’s health.
Emilia Gonzalez, a second-year doctoral candidate in Social Policy at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) in the Policy Studies PhD program, has been named a recipient of the Canada Graduate Scholarships to Honour Nelson Mandela for her research focused on understanding how to foster meaningful and effective intergenerational dialogue to drive social change.