Ontario Election

Andrew McDougall

Assistant Professor

• Campus
  • U of T Scarborough
• Department
  • Political Science

Areas of Expertise

• Canadian federalism and intergovernmental relations
• Conservative leadership
• Constitutional law
• Provincial politics

Office: (416) 432-3813
Website
Email: andrew.mcdougall@utoronto.ca
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Christopher Cochrane

Associate Professor

• Campus
  • U of T Scarborough
• Department
  • Political Science

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
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Elizabeth Dhuey

Professor

• Campus
  • U of T Scarborough
• Department
  • Management
• Centres
  • Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources

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
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Eric Merkley

Assistant Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • Political Science

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
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Gordon Cleveland

Associate Professor,Teaching Stream - Emeritus/Emerita

• Campus
  • U of T Scarborough
• Department
  • Management

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
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Jeffrey Dvorkin

Senior Fellow, Massey College

Former director, Journalism Program

• Campus
  • U of T Scarborough

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
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Jeffrey Rosenthal

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • Statistical Sciences

Areas of Expertise

• Margins of error & biases
• Polls
• Probabilities

Office: 416-978-4594
Website
Email: j.rosenthal@math.toronto.edu
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Larry LeDuc

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • Political Science

Areas of Expertise

• Elections
• Political parties
• Voting

Office: 416-946-0957
Email: leduc@chass.utoronto.ca
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Linda White

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • Political Science

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
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Matti Siemiatycki

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • Geography and Planning
• Centres
  • School of Cities

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
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Michael Widener

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • Geography and Planning

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
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Nancy Reid

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • Statistical Sciences

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
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Nelson Wiseman

Professor Emeritus

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • Political Science

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
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Opher Baron

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Joseph L. Rotman School of Management

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
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Peter Loewen

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • Political Science
• Centres
  • Centre for the Study of the United States

Areas of Expertise

• Citizens' perceptions of elected officials
• Future of democratic societies
• Policy; elections and representation
• Political polarization

Office: 416-978-5120
Languages (in addition to English): English
Website
Email: peter.loewen@utoronto.ca
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Randy Besco

Associate Professor

• Campus
  • U of T Mississauga
• Department
  • Political Science

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
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Law

Areas of Expertise

• Conflict of interest in medicine

Office: 416-978-4201
Home: 416-964-9482
Languages (in addition to English): English,French,Dutch; Flemish,German
Website
Email: trudo.lemmens@utoronto.ca
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