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Director, Centre for Voluntary Sector Studies
Department: Ted Rogers School of Management, Department of Human Resources and Organizational Behaviour
Phone: (416) 979-5000 x 6739
Areas of Expertise: nonprofit organizations, volunteerism, organizational change and complexity theory, governance, corporate social responsibility, organizational risk management
Areas of Expertise: satellite positioning and navigation, integrated navigation systems, hydrographic surveying
Areas of Expertise: personal financial planning, investments, RRSPs, sports finance
Areas of Expertise: lesbian and gay rights, labour movement and collective bargaining, education policy, social change and left-wing social movements, Tamil politics
Areas of Expertise: Robotics (including rescue, autonomous, teleoperated and field), Telepresence, Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) and Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear explosive (CBRNe) response
Chair
Department: School of Image Arts
Phone: (416) 979-5000 x 6855
Areas of Expertise: Canadian and international documentaries, Cuban cinema
Associate Professor
Department: Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology
Phone: (416) 979-5000 x 6413
Areas of Expertise: Russian organized crime, trafficking women and children within and from Russia
Professor
Department: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Phone: (416) 979-5000 x 6108
Areas of Expertise: lightning, lightning striking tall structures, dangers of lightning, lightning current, lightning electromagnetic pulse
Adjunct Professor
Department: Department of Civil Engineering
Phone: (416) 979-5000 x 6463
Areas of Expertise: transportation planning, mathematical modeling
Languages Spoken: Arabic, Polish
Professor
Department: School of Fashion
Phone: (416) 979-5000 x 7070
Areas of Expertise: colour, design trends and forecasting
Areas of Expertise: history and culture of fashion, gender roles and dress, military uniforms, tailoring, fashion and art
Associate Professor
Department: School of Interior Design
Phone: (416) 979-5000 x 6929
Areas of Expertise: urban and quasi-public space, urban linkages, active transportation (cycling, walking)
Assistant Professor
Department: Department of Chemistry and Biology
Phone: (416) 979-5000 x 4059
Areas of Expertise: aquatic ecology, production of greenhouse gases in waterways (i.e lakes, streams), change in biological activity of lake (i.e.- more algae, bacteria growing in lakes)
Newspaper Program Director and Professor
Department: School of Journalism
Phone: (416) 979-5000 x 6403
Areas of Expertise: media coverage of women's issues including pop and children's culture, media coverage of child care, newspaper coverage esp. arts and pop culture, news decision-makers: attitudes and demographics, lack of diversity in media, international adoption
Assistant Professor
Department: School of Occupational and Public Health
Phone: 416-979-5000 x 3109
Areas of Expertise: environmental risk factors for bicycling injury, occupational risk factors for Parkinson's disease and cancer, epidemiology (studying risk factors)
Associate Professor
Department: Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology
Phone: (416) 979-5000 x 4184
Areas of Expertise: general crime issues, public police, private security, vigilantism, legal reform on policing, issues in South African policing
Professor, Chair of Department of Mathematics
Department: Department of Mathematics
Phone: (416) 979-5000 x 4912
Areas of Expertise: web graph, complex networks, graph theorycomplex networks, on-line social networks, web graph, protein interaction networks, vertex pursuit games, graph theory
Professor
Department: Ted Rogers School of Management
Phone: (416) 979-5000 x 6742, Home: (416) 498-0429
Areas of Expertise: managerial accounting
Languages Spoken: Mandarin, Cantonese
Areas of Expertise: local news coverage, provincial politics, media and urban affairs/cities, media coverage of municipal politics
Languages Spoken: French, Spanish
Areas of Expertise: international relations, espionage, U.S. foreign policy, national security, terrorism, WWII and Cold War, Russia, Asia (particularly South East), WWI, and contemporary immigration policy
Associate Professor
Department: School of Graphic Communications Management
Office: Heidelberg Centre, School of Graphic Communications Management, 125 Bond St., Room HEI03B
Phone: 416-979-5000 x 4844
Areas of Expertise: Bookbinding, book arts, post press, bindery, print finishing
Areas of Expertise: Canadian politics, immigration settlement and social welfare
Interim Vice Provost, Faculty Affairs
Department: Ted Rogers School of Management
Phone: (416) 979-5000 x 7690
Areas of Expertise: privacy, surveillance, law and technology, law and business, employment and labour law, business and professional ethics
Areas of Expertise: investments, mergers and acquisitions, emerging markets, gender and investment, foreign direct investments
Director, Centre for Urban Energy
Department: Centre for Urban Energy
Phone: 416-979-5000 x 2978
Areas of Expertise: power systems, energy markets, intelligent systems
Areas of Expertise: literary journalism, new journalism, narrative journalism, magazine writing and production, journalism and ideas
Areas of Expertise: Canadian retail business and marketing, international retailing and franchising
Instructor
Department: School of Image Arts
Phone: (416) 979-5000 x 6877
Areas of Expertise: sound recording
Areas of Expertise: environmental psychology, effects of design, layout of buildings or office space on human behaviour, mood, work performance
Associate Professor
Department: Department of Politics and Public Administration
Phone: (416) 979-5000 x 4199
Areas of Expertise: Canadian politics; Ontario politics; Canadian provincial politics (all provinces); public sector restructuring; labour issues and unions; economic, labour and social policy; unemployment and labour markets; Ontario legistlature; public administration; politics of austerity; European elections
Assistant Professor (Marketing, Strategy and Entrepreneurship) and Director of MBA Recruitment
Department: Ted Rogers School of Management
Phone: 416-979-5000 x 6741
Areas of Expertise: product launches, consumer marketing, marketing trends and strategies, consumer behaviour, advertising, business management, market trends and strategies, new venture creation, managerial trends and strategies, consumer packaged goods marketing, brand management
Associate Professor
Department: Department of Sociology, Ryerson Caribbean Research Centre
Phone: (416) 979-5000 x 4193
Areas of Expertise: Caribbean studies, mixed race identity, second generation identity (esp. children of Caribbean immigrants), racism, racism in academia, Caribbean cultures, Caribbean tourism
Professor and Director of Clinical Training
Department: Department of Psychology
Phone: (416) 979-5000 x 6209
Areas of Expertise: posttraumatic stress disorder, couple therapy, relationships, anxiety
Areas of Expertise: museums and historic sites, history of Toronto, First Nations history of Great Lakes region (not land claims or contemporary First Nations issues), Canadian colonial and military history (War of 1812 etc.), artefacts and material culture, historic restoration, built heritage
Areas of Expertise: international economics, international trade, sovereign debt, China's economy, India's economy, Africa-China relations, mergers and acquisitions (foreign and domestic), Canada-U.S. trade relations, Caribbean trade/economic issues
Associate Professor
Department: Department of Professional Communication
Phone: 416-979-5000 x 4950
Areas of Expertise: politeness strategies in the workplace, e-mail communication in a business environment, business communication
Areas of Expertise: flu (influenza), bird flu, Tamiflu, drug resistance, math/computer models of disease spread within a person or cell culture
Areas of Expertise: modern Britain (politics, society, culture), British Labour Party, British socialism, Youth in British politics since 1945
Professor Emerita
Department: School of Disability Studies
Phone: (416) 979-5000 x 4591
Areas of Expertise: disability issues, disability arts, bioethics, human rights, discrimination
Areas of Expertise: wireless networks, Internet usage, use of mobile technologies, adopting new technologies, development and use of broadband networks, cellphone industry
Professor; Director and Principal Investigator, Canadian Internet Project
Department: RTA School of Media
Phone: (416) 979-5000 x 7549
Areas of Expertise: Internet use, social media; new media; multi-platform/convergent production; business and aesthetics of media production (film, television, new media, cross-platform); cultural policy, broadcasting content, media and policy
Areas of Expertise: social inequality and urban environment, immigration and settlement patterns in Toronto, race and ethnicity in Canada
Areas of Expertise: composite materials, fiber metal laminates, high temperature fatigue, material characterization
Associate Professor, Program Director for Film Studies
Department: School of Image Arts
Phone: (416) 979-5000 x 6879
Areas of Expertise: Canadian film industry
Professor and Director
Department: School of Urban and Regional Planning
Office: South Bond Building, 105 Bond St., Room SBB408
Phone: 416-979-5000 x 6467
Areas of Expertise: brown fields, sustainability, urban revitalization, environment, land use
Associate Professor, Director of the Jim Pattison Ethical Leadership Education and Research Program
Department: Ted Rogers School of Management
Phone: 416-979-5000 x 6903
Areas of Expertise: business ethics, corporate social responsibility; conflict of interest; professional ethics
Areas of Expertise: Canadian environmental politics and policy, global environmental issues, climate change, sub-Saharan African politics, urban environmental politics and policy
Associate Professor
Department: Ted Rogers School of Management
Office: Ted Rogers School of Management, 575 Bay St., 7th floor, Room TRS 1-081
Phone: 416-979-5000 x 7563
Areas of Expertise: Personal finance, pension plans (CPP, OAS, employer-sponsored RPP), retirement savings
Associate Professor
Department: Department of Psychology
Phone: (416) 979-5000 x 2177
Areas of Expertise: insomnia, depression, sleep, fatigue, cognitive behaviour therapy, SAD (seasonal affective disorder)
Areas of Expertise: general tax issues
Associate Professor
Department: Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Centre for Urban Energy
Phone: 416-979-5000 x 2095
Areas of Expertise: sustainability indicators, sustainability reporting, carbon footprinting, sustainable supply chain management, environmental management systems
Areas of Expertise: international business and marketing
Associate Professor
Department: Department of Politics and Public Administration
Phone: (416) 979-5000 x 4052
Areas of Expertise: Canadian politics, elections and voting behaviour, voter turnout, electoral systems, leadership, political communication, political campaigns, referendums, political parties, property rights, political economy of development
Languages Spoken: Swedish, Norwegian, Dutch
Professor
Department: Department of Computer Science
Phone: (416) 979-5000 x 7061
Areas of Expertise: computer systems, web environments, computer and network security, wikis and social-networking environments, programming languages, software reliability
Chair, Entrepreneurship
Department: Ted Rogers School of Management
Phone: (416) 979-5000 x 7603
Areas of Expertise: entrepreneurship, venture capital, business strategy, technology commercialization, economics
Areas of Expertise: property tax issues in Ontario, fiscal and economic aspects of planning and budgeting, strategic planning practices in Ontario and Eastern Europe, land and housing markets, urban policy including growth management at the local and provincial levels, fiscal planning tools including Tax Increment Financing and Land Value Capture
Associate Professor
Department: Department of Aerospace Engineering
Phone: (416) 979-5000 x 6432
Areas of Expertise: aircraft performance, aerodynamics, rockets, propulsion systems, the space shuttle, airplane crashes, flight dynamics, aircraft design, aircraft industry
Areas of Expertise: hospitality and tourism, culinary tourism, service quality management, restaurant management
Professor
Department: Ted Rogers School of Management
Phone: (416) 979-5000 x 7619
Areas of Expertise: development of online applications for people with disabilities, recipient of the 2009 Sarwan Sahota Award - Ryerson's Distinguished Scholar Award
Areas of Expertise: photographic history and criticism, critical writing in the visual arts and media
Areas of Expertise: same-sex relationships, identities and urban space, equity issues in Toronto's public education system (esp. homophobia), citizenship and democracy in Canada
Dean
Department: The G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education
Phone: 416-979-5005
Areas of Expertise: continuing education, job and economic trends, in-demand careers, adult learning, digital education/online learning, bridge programming for new Canadians, career training for internationally educated professionals, diversity in the classroom, the changing face of continuing education, under-employment/mal-employment.
Chair, Indigenous Governance; Head, Centre for Indigenous Governance
Department: Department of Politics and Public Administration
Phone: (416) 979-5000 x 2047
Areas of Expertise: Aboriginal, First Nations, Indigenous law, policy, governance and human rights issues
Associate Professor and Director, Master of Arts in Public Policy and Administration (MPPA) Program
Department: Department of Politics and Public Administration
Phone: (416) 979-5000 x 4182
Areas of Expertise: Municipal politics and urban governance issues involving local and provincial governments. Educational politics and policy making at the local and provincial levels.
Areas of Expertise: current films, pop culture
Areas of Expertise: spirit of architecture as manifest in Sacred Architecture, art and theory of architectural practice, industrial design principles applied to building science, new materials in architecture
Languages Spoken: Polish (written French)
Associate Dean, Academic Undergraduate Programs
Department: Ted Rogers School of Management
Phone: (416) 979-5000 x 7281
Areas of Expertise: retail management, international retail and innovation
Areas of Expertise: portrayal of mothers in popular culture and literature, celebrity maternity blogs, women's autobiographies, Virginia Woolf, Anais Nin
Areas of Expertise: philosophy of idealist metaphysics and human nature; art, architecture and design; education; Canadian philosophy and culture
Assistant Professor
Department: Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology
Phone: 416-979-5000 x 3010
Areas of Expertise: prostitution and the criminal code, criminalization of sex work, sex industry labour organizing, municipal regulation of sex work
Areas of Expertise: diabetes self-management education, delivery of diabetes self-management support, diabetes self-management, lifestyle interventions, diabetes self-management across culture and gender
Associate Professor
Department: Department of Economics
Phone: (416) 979-5000 x 6183
Areas of Expertise: monetory policy, macro economy, recession, unemployment, interest rates
Professor
Department: Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Phone: (416) 979-5000 x 7097
Areas of Expertise: robotics and automation, vision-based control, industrial control
Languages Spoken: Turkish, Farsi
Associate Professor
Department: Ted Rogers School of Management
Phone: (416) 979-5000 x 7503
Areas of Expertise: bonus incentive programs, behaviourial decision making, business ethics, business competition
Areas of Expertise: international sport and management facilities solutions, sports marketing and sponsorship, branding, branding of non-sport cities, strategic pricing, impact of sports facilities in urban centres
Associate Professor
Department: Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Phone: (416) 979-5000 x 7749
Areas of Expertise: product design, design methods and tools, knowledge management, design process improvement, product development, systems design
Areas of Expertise: retail managment, human resources, training, customer service, loss prevention in retail
Assistant Professor
Department: Department of Psychology
Phone: (416) 979-5000 x 2647
Areas of Expertise: music cognition, auditory perception, hearing science, emotional prosody, asssistive technology, perceptual ergonomics, sensory substitution, multimodal integration, cross-modal display
Professor
Department: Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Phone: (416) 979-5000 x 6416
Areas of Expertise: women in engineering, engineering education
Associate Professor
Department: Ted Rogers School of Management
Phone: (416) 979-5000 x 6693
Areas of Expertise: Hospitality and hotel industry
Areas of Expertise: film, video and sound technologies
Areas of Expertise: social media and journalism, mental health news, multimedia, digital journalism, business journalism
Areas of Expertise: financial management, corporate performance, corporate governance, university education issues, efficiency and productivity
Areas of Expertise: psychology of creativity, psychology of art (especially poetry), poetic development, plagiarism
Areas of Expertise: corporate and securities law, international business law (particularly involving China), white collar crime, business law and consumer protection law
Areas of Expertise: wastewater treatment, toxins accumulated in fish, water pollution, evaluating safety of drinking water
Areas of Expertise: police and race relations, socio-economic status of ethnic groups in Canada, ethnic groups and labour market in Canada
Bell Globemedia Research Chair
Department: RTA School of Media
Phone: (416) 979-5000 x 5282
Areas of Expertise: social media, new media and privacy, film and T.V. globalization, technology and politics, web campaigning
Assistant Professor
Department: Department of Professional Communication
Phone: 416-979-5000 x 2643
Areas of Expertise: Israeli politics, rhetoric in the Middle East conflict, public communication, speech writing, media relations, creative writing
Associate Professor
Department: Department of Geography
Phone: (416) 979-5000 x 6904
Areas of Expertise: immigration policy in Canada and Germany, migrant labour, citizenship and nationhood
Assistant Professor
Department: Ted Rogers School of Business Management
Office: 575 Bay St., 7th floor, TRS 1-101
Phone: 416-979-5000 x 2526
Areas of Expertise: international competitiveness of emerging market firms (primarily Indian and Chinese firms), and international finance (i.e. exchange rate policy, financial integration, financial crises, and the stability of international financial system)
Areas of Expertise: social networking technology, mobile applications for small devices (i.e. cellphones)
Professor, International Business and Entrepreneurship
Director, TRSM International Research Institute
Department: Ted Rogers School of Business Management
Phone: 416-979-5000 x 6719
Areas of Expertise: foreign direct investment, transnational entrepreneurship, immigration and settlement, emerging markets, China
Instructor
Department: School of Image Arts
Phone: (416) 979-5000 x 6871
Areas of Expertise: cultural studies
Assistant Professor
Department: Ted Rogers School of Management
Phone: 416-979-5000 x 6745
Areas of Expertise: Marketing: pharmaceutical, health care, international; brand management
Areas of Expertise: history of science and technology, water in the Middle East, Yemen
Associate Professor
Department: Department of Professional Communication
Phone: 416-979-5000 x 6387
Areas of Expertise: new media, digital culture, mobile communication, iPod culture, teaching with iPods, wearable computers, human-focused computer interfaces, visual rhetoric (how visual images persuade people), augmented reality and mixed reality (interactive digital media that combines real and virtual worlds together)
Areas of Expertise: media ethics, standards of quality in journalism, journalism awards
Areas of Expertise: food, weight, body image, nutrition counselling, dietitian burnout, interpersonal communication/relationships, scholarship of teaching and learning, arts-based research methods, Health At Every Size (HAES)
Areas of Expertise: philosophy of: love and sex, religion, art, ethics, politics, existentialism, critical thinking and film
Areas of Expertise: environmental benefits of green-roof technology, industrial-spills management, storm-water management, water pollution, persistent toxic substance detection and modeling
Languages Spoken: Cantonese, Mandarin
Associate Professor
Department: School of Interior Design
Phone: 416-979-5000 x 7627
Areas of Expertise: exhibition design, museum design, art installations, design festivals, student exhibitions
Associate Professor
Department: Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology
Phone: (416) 979-5000 x 2259
Areas of Expertise: criminal justice policies, homicide trends, youth justice and crime, public perceptions of youth crime and criminal justice policies
Areas of Expertise: eating well and active living, general nutrition issues
Areas of Expertise: journalistic practices, television news, information radio, media coverage during elections, Canadian media industry
Assistant Professor
Department: Department of English
Office: Jorgenson Hall, 10th floor Room 1034, 350 Victoria St.
Phone: 416-979-5000 x 7509
Areas of Expertise: digital humanities and literature, technology and education, scholarly communication, English literature
Assistant Professor and Director, Experiential Design and Gaming Environments (EDGE) Lab
Department: Department of Early Childhood Studies
Phone: (416) 979-5000 x 7030 (Prefers e-mail. Print media only.)
Areas of Expertise: children and technology, privacy/autonomy, games and play, autism, elementary science education, curriculum and critical pedagogy, virtual environments, social technologies
Areas of Expertise: feminism, sexual violence, mixed race identity, race relations, human rights and equity
Associate Professor
Department: School of Professional Communication
Phone: 416-979-5000 x 6380
Areas of Expertise: communication technology (Internet, e-mail), organizational/business communication, health communication, illness narratives, writing and editing
Areas of Expertise: infant and child development; parenting; perception, action and cognition during infant's first year; social-cognition and goal-directed behaviour in infants; cognitive-neuromotor aspects of childhood disorders (i.e. Autism Spectrum Disorder, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder)
Areas of Expertise: popular culture and mass media representation, new information and communication technologies, gender and sexuality, consumer culture and anti-consumerist movements, cyberculture, fandom studies
Associate Professor
Department: Department of History, Department of Arts and Contemporary Studies
Phone: (416) 979-5000 x 7728
Areas of Expertise: history of: fisheries science, environment, biology, science and technology
Associate Professor
Department: Daphne Cockwell School of Nursing
Phone: 416-979-5000 x 6316
Areas of Expertise: Arts-informed research and teaching methods, nursing and the arts/narratives, technology and nursing, humanistic approaches to health care, patient-centred care, cardiovascular nursing
Areas of Expertise: African-American history, labour history
Professor Emeritus
Department: School of Urban and Regional Planning
Phone: (416) 690-9724
Areas of Expertise: urban transportation planning, public transportation, congestion, survey research and planning research methods
Assistant Professor, Marketing
Department: Ted Rogers School of Management
Phone: (416) 979-5000 x 2425
Areas of Expertise: consumer and business resistance to giving up paper (paper bill, statements, invoices, magazines, books, catalogues, flyers); postal, financial and retail organizations; direct marketing; trust/distrust between consumers and organizations
Areas of Expertise: homelessness and social housing, providing services to aged and visible minorities
Areas of Expertise: Canadian newspaper industry, concentration of media ownership in Canada, news coverage of Aboriginal issues, multicultural media, journalism ethics, racial profiling, media hiring and portrayal of visible minorities,freedom of the press, libel issues
Areas of Expertise: Canadian politics, Ontario politics, labour, immigration and settlement, welfare state restructuring, nonprofit service providers
Assistant Professor
Department: Department of Civil Engineering
Office: Civil Engineering Building, Monetary Times, 341 Church St., Room MON407
Phone: 416-979-5000 x 7618
Areas of Expertise: transportation planning, traffic and transit networks, urban logistics, travel behaviour, travel economics, intelligent transportation systems
Instructor, Continuing Education Co-ordinator
Department: Department of Politics and Public Administration
Phone: (416) 979-5000 x 6675
Areas of Expertise: Canadian politics, U.S. politics, international relations
Areas of Expertise: online journalism, representation of religion in news and popular media, South African media
Professor
Department: Department of Chemistry and Biology
Phone: (416) 979-5000 x 7481
Areas of Expertise: analytical chemistry, urban air quality, biogeochemistry of heavy metals, water pollution
Areas of Expertise: architectural theory and history, 18th century Brazilian architecture, creativity and the design process in architecture, designing for urban agriculture
Assistant Professor
Department: Ted Rogers School of Information Technology Management
Phone: 416-979-5000 x 7523
Areas of Expertise: Information privacy, privacy and corporations, information technology and society
Associate Professor, Human Factors / Ergonomics and Safety
Department: School of Occupational and Public Health and Mechanical Engineering Graduate Program
Office: Email: kathryn.woodcock [at] ryerson.ca
Areas of Expertise: human factors engineering in amusement and recreation: human performance in design, operation, maintenance and inspection; investigation and prevention of error/human performance failure; sign language interpreting work; deafness and accessibility
Professor Emerita, Adjunct Professor
Department: School of Early Childhood Studies
Phone: 416-979-5000 x 2517
Areas of Expertise: Immigrant familes, immigrant seniors, immigrant housing issues, bridging programs
Associate Professor
Department: Ted Rogers School of Management
Phone: (416) 979-5000 x 2478
Areas of Expertise: law, corporate social responsibility, corporate accountability, sustainable development
Associate Professor
Department: School of Child and Youth Care
Phone: 416-979-5000 x 4593
Areas of Expertise: youth, youth engagement, youth in care, Children's Aid Society, children's mental health, children's services, children's rights
Associate Professor
Department: Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology
Phone: (416) 979-5000 x 4090
Areas of Expertise: youth justice process, Youth Criminal Justice Act, youth courts, parental involvement in youth justice, welfare fraud
Areas of Expertise: Innovation and productivity in Canada, RIM, entrepreneurship, small business, business strategy (i.e.- mergers and acquisitions, foreign-owned Canadian companies
Associate Professor
Department: Department of Civil Engineering
Phone: (416) 979-5000 x 7905
Areas of Expertise: durability of concrete infrastructures (i.e. roads, bridges, highways)
Assistant Professor
Department: RTA School of Media
Phone: (416) 979-5000 x 7018
Areas of Expertise: radio industry, satellite radio, CRTC broadcasting regulations, entertainment law, copyright, e-commerce, music industry
Associate Professor
Department: Daphne Cockwell School of Nursing
Phone: 416-979-5000 x 7992
Areas of Expertise: nursing clinical practice, health risks associated with nursing work, nursing injuries, health human resources, institutional ethnography
Areas of Expertise: tourism development, community development practices in Latin America
Areas of Expertise: environmental economics, natural resource economics, development economics
Instructor and Core Skills Director
Department: School of Journalism
Office: Rogers Communications Centre, 80 Gould St., RCC 141
Phone: 416-979-5000 x 7195
Areas of Expertise: multimedia journalism, grammar, law & ethics, law and justice reporting, press regulation, press freedom, feminist critique of journalism, constitutional law
Assistant Professor
Department: School of Interior Design
Phone: (416) 979-5000 x 6938
Areas of Expertise: design activism, transversal design, design methodologies and media with special focus on design competitions
Associate Professor
Department: RTA School of Media
Phone: (416) 979-5000 x 6030
Areas of Expertise: radio industry, sound art, interactive art, web design, sound for film and television
Areas of Expertise: aging; gerontological nursing; dementia - responsive behaviours, sexual health and intimacy needs; development and evaluation of practice development programs for point-of-care staff in the dementia context
Assistant Professor
Department: Department of Geography
Phone: (416) 979-5000 x 2689
Areas of Expertise: health geography; immigrant health; access to health care; retailing and consumption; ethnic economy; immigrant consumer behaviour; retail development in China
Associate Chair and Professor
Department: School of Fashion
Phone: (416) 979-5000 x 7172, Alt: 416-944-0428
Areas of Expertise: clothing design, sizing systems used in women's wear, academic and ceremonial gowning, functional apparel and wearable technology
Professor
Department: Department of Chemistry and Biology
Phone: (416) 979-5000 x 6378
Areas of Expertise: assessing pollution, especially in lakes, environmental biology and biotechnology, toxins in aquatic species
Areas of Expertise: magazine publishing and history, fetal alcohol syndrome
Chair and Associate Professor
Department: Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Phone: (416) 979-5000 x 6130
Areas of Expertise: official languages, language barriers in public service, translation, interpretation
Languages Spoken: French, English
Areas of Expertise: Regionalism in Canadian architecture, sustainability in contemporary Canadian architecture, Canadian modern architecture since 1945, architectural criticism, architectural writing and publication
Areas of Expertise: diversity & equity in organizations, gender and race/ethnicity, earnings & advancement in organizations, human resource managment in global economy
Areas of Expertise: food safety, water safety, parasitology, infection control
Areas of Expertise: early literacy, art education, multimodal and multiple literacies, inner city education, holistic education
Teaching Chair, Faculty of Communication and Design; Professor
Department: School of Journalism
Phone: (416) 979-5000 x 6295
Areas of Expertise: gender issues, popular culture, media bias, reality tv, election coverage on news networks, media training, interview training
Professor
Department: School of Image Arts
Phone: (416) 979-5000 x 6875
Areas of Expertise: history of photography; scientific, press, locomotion photography; early motion pictures; early Canadian cinema; EJ Marey; Eadweard Muybridge
Professor
Department: Department of Psychology
Phone: (416) 979-5000 x 2631
Areas of Expertise: anxiety disorders, obsessive compulsive disorder, phobias, shyness, clinical psychology, perfectionism
Areas of Expertise: British empire, Great Britain, European history, history of ideas, history of religion
Associate Professor, media theory
Department: RTA School of Media
Phone: (416) 979-5000 x 7447
Areas of Expertise: Canadian television, CBC, policy, cultural funding, cultural industries, nationalism, Olympics, popular culture, movies, fandom, feminism, queer and gender issues, activism, media theory, social media, transmedia, digital media, war news, news media, citizen journalism
Areas of Expertise: corporate strategy, China strategy, organizational adaptation, new venture creation and family business
Areas of Expertise: history and theory of architecture, heritage conservation: theory and practice, teaching pedagogy
Languages Spoken: French,Russian
Associate Professor
Department: Ted Rogers School of Management
Phone: (416) 979-5000 x 6761
Areas of Expertise: labour relations, collective bargaining, negotiation, conflict resolution, alternative dispute resolution
Areas of Expertise: deterioration of structures, durability, testing and evaluation of concrete, use of reclaimed concrete aggregate (RCA) in construction, and chemical and physical attacks on concrete
Areas of Expertise: immigrant and refugee children, youth and families, immigrant parenting
Areas of Expertise: consumer behaviour, product placement, viral marketing, consumer attitudes
Areas of Expertise: ultrasound imaging and therapy, biomedical applications of ultrasound, optoacoustics (an innovative technique to produce more detailed ultrasound images using laser pulses), mechanical properties of cells, microbubbles and nanoemulsions for molecular imaging and therapy
Professor and Head of Audio & Digital Media
Department: RTA School of Media
Phone: (416) 979-5000 x 7010
Areas of Expertise: radio industry, satellite radio, radio technology, digital technology, Internet, multimedia
Areas of Expertise: body image, psychology of eating, women's participation in sport and exercise
Associate Professor
Department: Department of Politics and Public Administration
Phone: (416) 979-5000 x 6260
Areas of Expertise: health care, northern Ireland
Associate Director and Professor
Department: School of Urban and Regional Planning
Phone: (416) 979-5000 x 7314
Areas of Expertise: municipal and provincial planning, municipal politics/government, social and youth services, public housing, international academic curriculum development in United Arab Emirates
Associate Professor and Interim Associate Dean: Research, Development and Graduate Programs
Department: Department of Civil Engineering
Phone: (416) 979-5000 x 6465
Areas of Expertise: behaviour of materials and structures, sustainable development and construction, high performance concrete, rehabilitation and repair of structures, use of waste byproducts in construction
Languages Spoken: French, Arabic
Professor
Department: Department of Sociology, Media Studies Working Group
Phone: (416) 979-5000 x 6154
Areas of Expertise: Hollywood cinema
Areas of Expertise: Transportation and transit planning, infrastructure development, housing markets, freight and logistics, big data analytics, and human development in South Asia
Languages Spoken: Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi, Afgani (Pushto), Persian (Farsi)
Professor
Department: Department of Sociology, Centre for Studies in Food Security
Phone: (416) 979-5000 x 6210
Areas of Expertise: Prof. Koc is one of the leading experts in food security and food studies in Canada. He was among the founders of the Ryerson Centre for Studies in Food Security, founding president of the Canadian Association for Food Studies and the chair of civil society organization Food Secure Canada. His research and teaching interestes include food policy, food security, food studies; Turkish politics.
Areas of Expertise: Canadian politics, municipal politics, voting behaviour among ethnic groups, immigration policy, labour policy
Chair, Research Ethics Board and Associate Professor
Department: Daphne Cockwell School of Nursing
Phone: 416-979-5000 x 6300
Areas of Expertise: research ethics, bioethics and health care ethics with a focus on priority-setting and decision-making in health care, research on the experience of parenting children with special needs
Adjunct Professor
Department: Health Services Management
Phone: (416) 205-9984
Areas of Expertise: health 2.0 (online collaboration among patients focusing on their health), patient-centred health, e-health, Big Data in healthcare
Associate Professor
Department: Department of Politics and Public Administration
Phone: (416) 979-5000 x 6188
Areas of Expertise: urban issues and local government, gay and lesbian politics
Chair of Management, Entrepreneurship and Strategy and Assistant Professor
Department: Ted Rogers School of Management
Phone: (416) 979-5000 x 6732
Areas of Expertise: entrepreneurship, venture capital
Areas of Expertise: childhood obesity, appetite control, women's health, exercise and energy balance, satiety hormones
Chair, Human Resources Management, and Associate Professor
Department: Ted Rogers School of Management
Phone: (416) 979-5000 x 7558
Areas of Expertise: human resources management; expatriate employees, assignments and spouses; employee discipline, employee perceptions of fair treatment in workplace
Areas of Expertise: urban parks and waterfronts, sustainable landscapes, ecological design, urban food systems and edible landscapes
Professor/Associate Director
Department: Ted Rogers School of Management
Phone: 416-979-5000 x 2481
Areas of Expertise: Tele-work, working from home, human-computer interaction, managerial decision making, business intelligence
Professor
Department: Department of Politics and Public Administration
Phone: (416) 979-5000 x 2704
Areas of Expertise: Canadian, Ontario and Quebec politics; political and public service leadership; budget policy; public administration; Canadian foreign policy; Canadian political history
Associate Professor
Department: Department of Politics and Public Administration
Phone: (416) 979-5000 x 6412
Areas of Expertise: Canadian politics, inter-governmental relations
Areas of Expertise: children, childcare, family policies, children and youth in society
Areas of Expertise: future of news media, Canadian media and politics, news industry, freedom of expression, general media issues, Latin American politics and society, Canadian foreign policy, international relations
Languages Spoken: Spanish, Portuguese, French
Associate Professor, president of the Film Studies Association of Canada
Department: Department of Sociology
Phone: (416) 979-5000 x 2604
Areas of Expertise: entertainment and public culture, movie theatres and film culture, newspaper history (comic strips, illustrations, magazine inserts), urban history and public space
Assistant Professor
Department: Department of Mathematics
Phone: 416-979-5000 x 7421
Areas of Expertise: searching and modelling self-organizing networks, complex networks, graph theory, data mining
Areas of Expertise: serial killers, female serial killers, history of Toronto crime and police, espionage in international relations, invasion of Irish insurgents (known as Fenian raids) in Canada in 1866 and 1870 and Canada's first modern battle: the Battle of Ridgeway June, 2 1866
Languages Spoken: Russian, Italian
Associate Professor, Entrepreneurship & Strategy
Department: Centre for Urban Energy, Ted Rogers School of Management, Yeates School of Graduate Studies, Environmental Applied Science and Management
Phone: (416) 979-5000 x 2553
Areas of Expertise: energy, mining; environmental, social and economic sustainability practices; renewable energy policy and innovation, sustainable development policy, culture of honesty and trust in organizations
Associate Director and Associate Professor
Department: School of Early Childhood Studies
Phone: (416) 979-5000 x 7695
Areas of Expertise: working with children and families, parenting and parenting programs, support facilities for parents such as Ontario Early Years Centres (i.e - places where parents or caregivers and children can spend time together, provides parenting resources and learn about child development), research with children.
Associate Professor
Department: Ted Rogers School of Management
Areas of Expertise: sustainable tourism, tourism development and planning, corporate social responsibility in tourism, tourist motivations, ecotourism, climate change in tourism, eco-certification in tourism industry, island tourism
Director and Associate Professor
Department: School of Early Childhood Studies
Phone: (416) 979-5000 x 7635
Areas of Expertise: professional preparation and career paths of early childhood educators, inclusion of young children with special needs in early childhood education, early childhood policy directions, the Canadian child care movement
Areas of Expertise: online video games, new media, digital culture
Areas of Expertise: contemporary Canadian fiction, American literature and culture, politics and religion
Areas of Expertise: obesity in adults, nutrition, food and dietary intake
Assistant Professor
Department: RTA School of Media
Phone: (416) 979-5000 x 2627
Areas of Expertise: digital media, social networking, video gaming, transmedia, new media, broadcasting
Areas of Expertise: marketing strategy, advertising, loyalty management programs
Assistant Professor
Department: Ted Rogers School of Management
Phone: (416) 979-5000 x 2448
Areas of Expertise: global sourcing of information technology and business proccessing, social and environmental responsilibilities of outsourcing
Professor
Department: School of Occupational and Public Health, School of Urban and Regional Planning
Phone: (416) 979-5000 x 7049
Areas of Expertise: environmental impact assessment, environmental planning, hazardous facility siting and risk assessment
Areas of Expertise: history of Canada and Ontario in 18th to 20th centuries, Toronto history, Canadian constitutional history, history of social movements (e.g.. civil rights, women's movement, movements of mass protest, including political protest movements), social trends, Canadian-American relations, history as depicted in film
Professor
Department: Department of Politics and Public Administration
Office: 380 Victoria St., 8th floor, Room JOR813
Phone: 416-979-5000 X 6054
Areas of Expertise: municipal politics and policy (Toronto, U.S., comparative urban), U.S. politics
Areas of Expertise: marketing; business-to-business marketing; services marketing and management; service quality and customer satisfaction; creation and management of effective service operations
Assistant Professor
Department: Department of Chemistry and Biology
Phone: (416) 979-5000 x 4951
Areas of Expertise: organic chemistry, medicinal chemistry, cystic fibrosis, stereochemistry, catalysis, synthetic chemistry
Areas of Expertise: history of Canadian publishing, Canadian authors and their audience, Jewish Canadian women writers, Canadian literature, creative writing
Professor
Department: Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Phone: (416) 979-5000 x 7735
Areas of Expertise: productivity improvements in different processes (i.e.-manufacturing, business), computer simulation for business and manufacturing processes, analysis of loyalty reward programs, scheduling tasks for employees to meet targets and minimize costs
Areas of Expertise: road safety, highway geometric design, human factors in transportation, intelligent transportation systems
Graduate Program Director
Department: School of Urban and Regional Planning
Phone: (416) 979-5000 x 6767
Areas of Expertise: multiculturalism, ethnic enclaves, public policies, urban planning and urban design, religion and city development
Areas of Expertise: loss, grief and mourning in the arts; feminist remembrance, public commemoration and monuments, modern/post modern British fiction, psychoanalytic theory and criticis
Areas of Expertise: banks, finance, investments
Professor, Entrepreneurship and Strategy
Department: Ted Rogers School of Management
Phone: 416-979-5000 x 2254
Areas of Expertise: digital technology, entrepreneurship, venture capital and angel investing, start up companies, business reality tv (i.e - Dragon's Den)
Assistant Professor
Department: Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Centre for Urban Energy
Phone: 416-979-5000 x 7311
Areas of Expertise: computer modelling of combustion and biofuels, atmospheric emissions, and alternative energy from geothermal and solar sources
Professor
Department: School of Computer Science
Phone: (416) 979-5000 x 7401
Areas of Expertise: human-computer interaction, user-friendliness of software and websites, computer science and math education
Professor and Canada Research Chair
Department: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Phone: (416) 979-5000 x 4931
Areas of Expertise: biomedical engineering, biometrics, information technology, assistive technology, speech and audio processing
Areas of Expertise: eating disorders, psychology of eating, emotional attachment to food, obesity, body image, cognitive behavioural therapy
Areas of Expertise: popular culture, street racing, motorcycle culture, consumersim
Director, Ryerson Entrepreneur Institute, and Professor, Entrepreneurship and Strategy
Department: Ted Rogers School of Management
Office: Ted Rogers School of Management, 575 Bay St., 8th floor, Room TRS 2-073
Phone: 416-979-5000 x 7925
Areas of Expertise: entrepreneurship, start-ups, angel investing, venture capital, early stage equity financing, capitalism, free markets, goal setting, time management
Areas of Expertise: m-commerce, multi-channel retailing, virtual retailing, consumer behaviour and the Internet, ethnic retail markets
Areas of Expertise: general media coverage issues, especially broadcast
Areas of Expertise: Immigration and South Asian ethnic groups, housing; ethnic enclaves
Languages Spoken: Hindi, Bengali
Areas of Expertise: Supporting patients following heart surgery through patient education interventions
Areas of Expertise: cancer and couples, couples with chronic illness, coping with chronic illness, clergy abuse, post-traumatic stress disorder
Associate Professor
Department: Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology
Phone: (416) 979-5000 x 6198
Areas of Expertise: crime in general, policing, police accountability, police-community relations, law reform, Aboriginal justice, victims and victim issues
Associate Professor
Department: Department of Psychology
Phone: (416) 979-5000 x 6519
Areas of Expertise: psychology and the law, juries, decision-making, pre-trial publicity, alibis, wrongful conviction, social psychology
Associate Professor
Department: Department of Politics and Public Administration
Phone: (416) 979-5000 x 6169
Areas of Expertise: politics in Pakistan, South and West Asia; political/militant Islam; multiculturalism, ethnicity and nationalism; security and democracy; race, racialization and diaspora communities in Canada, US interventions around the world
Languages Spoken: Urdu, Punjabi
Professor
Department: School of Occupational and Public Health
Phone: (416) 979-5000 x 7556
Areas of Expertise: epidemiology, communicable diseases (influenza pandemics, SARS, food-borne diseases), risk assessment and risk communication
Areas of Expertise: brain imaging (fMRI), memory, schizophrenia, sleep-paralysis hallucinations, intelligence assessment
Areas of Expertise: Europe, modern Germany, the Holocaust, World War I and World War II, war crime trials
Areas of Expertise: Canadian retailing,power centres, shopping malls
Associate Professor
Department: Department of Politics and Public Administration
Phone: (416) 979-5000 x 2701
Areas of Expertise: women and politics, Canadian national identity outside Quebec, national unity, Canadian political culture
Areas of Expertise: HIV/AIDS, sexual health, sexual behaviour, health psychology, gay/bisexual men
Assistant Professor
Department: Department of Politics and Public Administration
Phone: (416) 979-5000 x 2702
Areas of Expertise: European Union, competition/antitrust policy, communications policy, e-government, e-democracy, post Keynesian economics
Dean and Professor
Department: Faculty of Community Services
Phone: (416) 979-5000 x 6119
Areas of Expertise: immigration policy in Canada, immigration and settlement of newcomers to Canada, race and race relations, diversity
Areas of Expertise: environmental cost management and environmental reporting, shareholder reactions to environmental management issues
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