Past and Present Collaborators

 

Our team of collaborators is composed of academics and professionals who produce research, work on projects, and write independent reports for the Centre.

Nasma Ahmed, Director at the Digital Justice Lab

Mike Ananny, Associate Professor of Communication and Journalism at USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism

Sarah Banet-Weiser, Distinguished Professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication and Professor of Communication at USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism

Ana Brandusescu, PhD candidate at McGill University and co-lead of research project “AI for the Rest of Us”

James Bridle, artist, writer, and publisher

Robyn Caplan, Senior Researcher at Data & Society

Ignacio Cofone, Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair in AI Law and Data Governance in the Faculty of Law at McGill University

Elizabeth Dubois, Associate Professor and Research Chair in Politics, Communication and Technology at the University of Ottawa

Lex Gill, lawyer at Trudel Johnston & Lespérance and Fellow at the Citizen Lab

Codi Hauka, multimedia journalist and media scholar

Elizabeth Laird, Director of Equity in Civic Technology at the Center for Democracy and Technology

Gabrielle Lim, researcher with the Technology and Social Change Project at the Shorenstein Center and Doctoral Fellow at the Citizen Lab

Peter Loewen, Director of the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy and Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto, Director of PEARL, and Associate Director of the Schwartz Reisman Institute

Alex Luscombe, PhD Candidate in criminology at the University of Toronto, a computer programmer, and a research and policy consultant

Alexander McClelland, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Carleton University

Eric Merkley, Assistant Professor of Political Science in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto

Aiha Nguyen, Program Director of the Labor Futures Initiatives at Data & Society

Candice L. Odgers, Professor of Psychological Science at the University of California Irvine and Co-Director of the Child & Brain Development Program at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and the CERES Network

Derek Ruths, Associate Professor of Computer Science at McGill University

Yasmeen Safaie, Researcher at BOP Consulting

M.R. Sauter, Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland College of Information Studies

Shaheen Shariff, James McGill Full Professor in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education at McGill University’s Faculty of Education

Nina Solomun, former researcher at the London School of Economics

Luke Stark, Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Information & Media Studies at Western University 

Valerie Steeves, Full Professor in the Department of Criminology at the University of Ottawa and Co-Leader of The eQuality Project

Yuan Stevens, Policy Lead of the Technology, Cybersecurity and Democracy Programme at the Toronto Metropolitan University’s Leadership Lab, research fellow at the Centre for Law, Technology and Society at the University of Ottawa, and a research affiliate at Data & Society

Chris Tenove, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Political Science at the University of British Columbia 

Heidi Tworek, Canada Research Chair, Associate Professor of International History and Public Policy, and the Director of the Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions at the University of British Columbia