Ted Richmond

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Office: JOR701
E-mail: trichmondpolitics.ryerson.ca

Ted Richmond holds a Master’s degree in evaluation and policy analysis from OISE, University of Toronto as well as a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from York University (Atkinson). He has an extensive professional background in immigration and settlement research and policy work, and has served in a volunteer capacity on numerous community boards and advisory committees as well as with many community-academic research partnerships.

Ted also has considerable experience in the field of adult education, having taught for many years, both full- and part-time, computer-based skills upgrading to adults seeking to improve their employment opportunities. As well Ted is frequently called upon to provide keynote addresses and to organize training sessions or facilitate workshops at academic, government and community policy conferences.

At Ryerson, Ted teaches INP 900: Understanding the Nonprofit/Voluntary Sector.

Ted’s research and policy interests include the service and equity implications of changing ethno-racial demographics, the restructuring of funding for community services, and community-based approaches to program evaluation. Ted's professional experience in policy and research includes fulltime employment in the ngo sector, academic research consortiums, the private foundation sector and currently the Ontario government.

Publications include:

  • “Reflections on Resistance to Neoliberalism: Looking Back on Solidarity in 1983 British Columbia” (with John Shields).  Socialist Studies: The Journal of the Society for Socialist Studies 7:1/2 (2011):  216-237.
  • Social Inclusion: Canadian Perspectives (co-edited with Anver Saloojee). Halifax: Fernwood Publishing, 2005.
  • “NGO-Government Relations and Immigrant Services: Contradictions and Challenges” (with John Shields). Journal of International Migration and Integration 6:3/4 (Summer/Fall 2005): 513-526.
  • “Community Organizations at Risk” (with Lynn Eakin). The Philanthropist 19:4 (November, 2005): 261-282.
  • “Structuring Neoliberal Governance: The Nonprofit Sector, Emerging New Modes of Control and the Marketisation of Service Delivery” (with Bryan Evans and John Shields). Policy and Society 24:1 (Fall 2005): 73-97.
  • “Social Inclusion as Policy.” Horizons 7:2 (December 2004) 75-77.
  • “NGO Restructuring: Constraints and Consequences” (with John Shields). Canadian Review of Social Policy 53 (Spring/Summer 2004): 53-67.
  • “Third Sector Restructuring and the New Contracting Regime: The Case of Immigrant Serving Agencies in Ontario” (with John Shields). Policy Matters 3 (February 2004): 1-7. A report of the Joint Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Settlement (CERIS) – Toronto.
  • Immigrant Settlement and Social Inclusion (with Ratna Omidvar). Working Paper in social inclusion series commissioned by Laidlaw Foundation, Toronto January, 2003. An abridged version published in Policy Matters 16 (March 2005): 1-4.
  • Review of Immigrants and the Labour Force: Policy, Regulation and Impact by Ravi Pendakur. Canadian Journal of Sociology Online February, 2001.
  • “L’évaluation des services d’établissement pour les personnes immigrantes et réfugiées: Enjeux conceptuels et méthodologiques” (avec Adrienne Chambon). Cahiers de recherche sociologiques: L’évaluation sociale un enjeu politique 35 (Spring, 2001): 167-185.