Ontario Election
Andrew McDougall
Assistant Professor
- Campus
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Canadian federalism and intergovernmental relations
- Conservative leadership
- Constitutional law
- Provincial politics
Office: (416) 432-3813
Website
Email: andrew.mcdougall@utoronto.ca
Media availability: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Christopher Cochrane
Associate Professor
- Campus
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Canadian politics and government
- Computation
- Data
- Ideology
- Language; Systems
- Political behaviour and elections
- Political communications
- Political Competition
- Political methodology
- Social sciences
Office: (416) 208-5121
Website
Email: christopher.cochrane@utoronto.ca
Media availability: Radio, Print/Online
Elizabeth Dhuey
Professor
- Campus
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Economics of K-12 education
- Kindergarten
- Middle/Junior High School
- Principals
- Redshirting
- Special Education Finance
Office: N/A
Languages (in addition to English): English
Website
Email: elizabeth.dhuey@utoronto.ca
Media availability: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Eric Merkley
Assistant Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Canadian politics
- Elections
- Fake news & misinformation
- News media & politics
- Polarization
- Public opinion
- Social media toxicity
- U.S. politics
Office: N/A
Website
Email: eric.merkley@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
Media availability: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Gordon Cleveland
Associate Professor,Teaching Stream - Emeritus/Emerita
- Campus
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Child care policy
- Compensation of child care workers
- Economic effects of early childhood education
- Family homes
- Quality in child care centres, family homes
Office: N/A
Mobile: 416-617-5485
Website
Email: gordon.cleveland@utoronto.ca
Media availability: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Jeffrey Dvorkin
Senior Fellow, Massey College
Former director, Journalism Program
- Campus
Areas of Expertise
- Changing role of media
- Disinformation & censorship
- Importance of trusted media sources
- Journalism ethics
- Media management and ethical decision-making
- Misinformation
- News ombudsmanship
- Significance of digital freedom & government accountability
- Social media and democratic practice
- Spread of misinformation
- The challenge of digital information
- The role of cameras in court rooms
- Youth vote reporting
Office: N/A
Home: 416-537-2892
Mobile: 647-401-5330
Languages (in addition to English): French, German, Hebrew
Email: jeffrey.dvorkin@utoronto.ca
Media availability: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Jeffrey Rosenthal
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-978-4594
Website
Email: j.rosenthal@math.toronto.edu
Media availability: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Larry LeDuc
Professor Emeritus/Emerita
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-946-0957
Email: leduc@chass.utoronto.ca
Media availability: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Linda White
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Canadian and comparative public policy
- Child care and family policy
- Early childhood education and care
- Federalism and Canadian public policy
- Gender and public policy
- Gender pay gap
Office: 416-978-2857
Mobile: 647-225-9164
Website
Email: linda.white@utoronto.ca
Media availability: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Matti Siemiatycki
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Community and regional planning
- Congestion management
- Cycling
- Housing; Solutions for commercial vacancies
- Infrastructure finance and delivery
- Public-private partnerships
- Transit and commuting
- Transportation policy and planning
- Urban planning
- Urban transit
Office: 416-946-5145
Mobile: 647-680-8963
Website
Email: matti.siemiatycki@utoronto.ca
Media availability: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Michael Widener
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Food deserts
- Food environments
- Food insecurity
- Health and transportation
- Healthy food accessibility
- Housing and health
- How transportation networks and infrastructure affect access to health services and healthy opportunities
- Urban planning and health
Office: 416-946-0270
Website
Email: michael.widener@utoronto.ca
Media availability: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Nancy Reid
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Data science
- Design of studies
- Foundations of Inference
- Health and environment statistics
- Likelihood Inference
- P-values
- Polling methods
- Statistical Theory
- Statistics and Policy
Office: N/A
Mobile: 416-986-8321
Website
Email: nancym.reid@utoronto.ca
Media availability: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Nelson Wiseman
Professor Emeritus
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Canada in the world
- Canada’s political parties and leaders
- Canadian politics and policy
- Elections and Voting
- Provincial politics
Office: 416.922-5595 call or email do not text
Email: nelson.wiseman@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Phone
Media availability: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Opher Baron
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Autonomous vehicles
- Business analytics
- Gas costs
- Global food supply
- Queueing and waiting time management
- Revenue management
- Service operations (such as healthcare)
- Supply chain management
- Ukraine war, Impact to supply chain
Office: 416-978-4164
Languages (in addition to English): English,Hebrew
Website
Email: opher.baron@rotman.utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
Media availability: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Randy Besco
Associate Professor
- Campus
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Canadian government and politics
- Elections
- How political polls dictate voter behaviour
- Public opinion
- Race & immigration
Office: 905-569-4377
Website
Email: randy.besco@utoronto.ca
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Trudo Lemmens
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-978-4201
Home: 416-964-9482
Languages (in addition to English): English,French,Dutch; Flemish,German
Website
Email: trudo.lemmens@utoronto.ca
Media availability: TV, Radio, Print/Online