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Social policy

Akwasi Owusu-Bempah

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Cannabis
  • Crime
  • Criminal justice
  • Defunding police
  • Drug policy
  • Drugs
  • Policing
  • Protests and marches on both sides of the border
  • Public policy
  • Race and crime
  • Race and ethnic relations
  • Race and racism
  • Racialized law enforcement
  • Racism and criminal justice
  • Rayshard Brooks
  • Social policy

Office: (416) 978-7124 Ext. 240
Website
Email: a.o.bempah@utoronto.ca
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David Hulchanski

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Community development
  • Divided cities
  • Gentrification
  • Homelessness
  • Housing
  • Housing discrimination
  • Human right to adequate housing
  • Income inequality
  • Neighbourhoods
  • Private rental sector
  • Social policy
  • Subsidized housing

Office: 416-978-1973
Mobile: 416-509-5806
Website
Email: david.hulchanski@utoronto.ca
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Ito Peng

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Canada’s approach to long-term care
  • Child care policy
  • East Asia/Asia Pacific public policy
  • East-west comparisons
  • Elder care policy
  • Family and gender policies
  • Fertility
  • Japan
  • Marriage and aging society
  • Social policy
  • South Korea
  • System issues in long-term care
  • Systemic issues at LTC facilities
  • Taiwan
  • Women and migration

Office: 416-946-5902
Languages: Japanese
Website
Email: itopeng@chass.utoronto.ca
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Judith Taylor

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Culture and Popular Culture as relates to other expertise
  • Feminism and Feminist Perspective
  • Gender Relations
  • Social Movements and Activism
  • Social policy
  • Sociological framings of social problems

Office: 416-946-5720
Website
Email: judith.taylor@utoronto.ca
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Michael Donnelly

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Canadian views on immigration and refugees
  • Ethnic Politics
  • European politics
  • Immigration
  • Public opinion
  • Social policy

Office: 1 416-978-0344
Languages: English
Website
Email: mj.donnelly@utoronto.ca
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