Faculty Research Chairs
Faculty Research Chair in Politics of Property
Chair: Jessica Allina-Pisano, School of Political Studies
The chair in Politics of Property will promote an international research program on the politics of property. The chair will bring together researchers at the faculty, university, and beyond to address pressing issues of our time that derive, at their core, from changes in property rights regimes: the geopolitics of energy resource ownership; privatization and environmental disasters and degradation; redefinition of the commons; resource-driven conflict; landlessness, dispossession, and poverty.
Faculty Research Chair in Community Mental Health and Homelessness
Chair: Tim Aubry, School of Psychology
The Faculty Research Chair in Community Mental Health and Homelessness will focus on conducting community-based research that contributes to the development of social programs and policies assisting people with significant mental health problems to exit homelessness and become re-integrated into the community.
Faculty Research Chair in Francophonie, Litteracy and Society
Chair: Alain Desrochers, School of Psychology
This chair studies the development of reading competencies in children and in adults. The research focuses on the creation of teaching materials best suited to the needs of the learners, promoting and disseminating educational best practices and the use of information technologies.
Faculty Research Chair in Letters From Prison: Here and There
Chair: Sylvie Frigon, Department of Criminology
This chair will facilitate the insertion of “culture in prison, prison in culture” through research and creation of a book of letters from women prisoners from different countries. Writing workshops are held in prisons so incarcerated women can express their feelings and thoughts on motherhood, loneliness, confinement, love, etc. Prison life will also be exposed by artistes whose writings will offer complementary perspectives.
Faculty Research Chair in International Politics
Chair: Michael Williams, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs
This research chair will examine the foundations of international political theory in both it conceptual and historical dimensions, and in relation to the shifting practices of international relations. By examining emerging structures of power and practice in the contemporary world order, it seeks to provide a broad and critical perspective on contemporary global transformations and the political challenges they pose.
