Leading up to Ontario’s provincial election on June 2, the following experts from Western University are available to speak to media on a wide range of topics including voting attitudes, health policy, COVID-19 response, economy and finance, housing and public transportation.
Political Science
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
Areas of Expertise: Collective action and intergovernmental relations in Canada, government relationships with Indigenous communities.
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
Areas of Expertise: Political behaviour, economic voting, political identity and citizen behaviour in a multilevel setting, attitudes towards the practice of democracy at the local and provincial level.
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, King’s University College
Areas of Expertise: Local campaign in London, public opinion polling, policy announcements and third-party spending.
Professor, Department of Political Science
Areas of Expertise: Elections and voting, possible shift in the dimensions of political debate, political behaviour, both Canadian and comparative.
Health Policy and COVID-19 Response
Associate Professor, Management Science at Ivey School of Business; Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics in the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry
Areas of Expertise: COVID-19 response, Ontario Science Table projections, Canada Research Chair in Healthcare Analytics, Management, and Policy.
Professor, School of Health Studies, Co-Director, Health Ethics, Law and Policy (HELP) Lab
Areas of Expertise: Health policy, COVID-19 measures, public health ethics, population-level bioethics, infectious disease ethics.
Housing and Affordability
Assistant Professor, Business, Economics and Public Policy group at Ivey School of Business
Areas of Expertise: Housing and affordability, interest rates, business, economics and public policy; Senior Director, Policy and Innovation at the Smart Prosperity Institute.
Associate Professor, DAN Department of Management & Organizational Studies
Areas of Expertise: Housing affordability, real estate markets, urban economic geography and real estate economics.
Provincial Matters
Professor, Sociology, King’s University College
Areas of Expertise: Population growth, distribution and its implications, population aging, labor market and other economic/demographic changes.
Professor Emeritus, Department of Geography & Environment, Former Assistant Deputy Minister in Environment Canada
Areas of Expertise: Climate spending, climate change science and policy, natural hazards-prediction and mitigation, weather and environmental prediction systems.
Lawrence Centre Policy Fellow, Ivey School of Business; Former Associate Deputy Minister at Ontario’s Ministry of Finance
Areas of Expertise: Budgets and policy, development of budgets, tax administration; 10 years of finance experience in government.
Doctoral Student, Department of Geography & Environment, Project Coordinator, ParkSeek Canada
Human Environments Analysis Lab
Areas of Expertise: Public transportation, transportation planning, municipal finance associated with property taxes, parks and recreational facilities, post-secondary education and community benefits.
Commentary by Western faculty members reflects their perspectives and scholarly interests and is not an articulation of official university policy on issues being addressed.
MEDIA CONTACT: To reach any of the faculty members listed above, please contact Justin Zadorsky, Media Relations Officer, Western University, 226.377.1673 (mobile), jzadorsk@uwo.ca
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