End of the decade
David Jenkins
Professor

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- carbohydrate/fibre metabolism
- Clinical trials
- Diet and cancer
- Diet and disease
- Diet and environmental concerns
- Dietary portfolio for cholesterol lowering
- functional foods and nutraceuticals
- nutrition in diseased populations
- plant proteins and health
- Plant-based diets
- postprandial hypertension
Office: 416-946-3654
Email: david.jenkins@utoronto.ca
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Gretchen Kerr
Dean, Faculty of Kinesiology & Physical Education
Professor, Athlete Maltreatment

- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Abuse and harassment in sport
- Changing climate in sport and coaching
- Coach Education
- coaches and parents of athletes)
- Psychological stress of athletes
- Retirement transitions of elite athletes
- Women in coaching
- Women in sports
Office: 416-978-7710
Mobile: 647-383-9910
Email: gretchen.kerr@utoronto.ca
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Jeffrey Dvorkin
Senior Fellow, Massey College
Former director, Journalism Program
- Campus
Areas of Expertise
- Changing role of media
- Disinformation & censorship
- Importance of trusted media sources
- Journalism ethics
- Media management and ethical decision-making
- Misinformation
- News ombudsmanship
- Significance of digital freedom & government accountability
- Social media and democratic practice
- Spread of misinformation
- The challenge of digital information
- The role of cameras in court rooms
- Youth vote reporting
Office: N/A
Home: 416-537-2892
Mobile: 647-401-5330
Languages (in addition to English): French, German, Hebrew
Email: jeffrey.dvorkin@utoronto.ca
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Marcel Danesi
Professor Emeritus
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Linguistic anthropology
- Millennial culture
- Popular culture
- Pressure to set resolutions
- Semiotics
- Youth culture
Office: N/A
Home: 416-247-5909
Mobile: 647-408-5909
Languages (in addition to English): Italian
Email: marcel.danesi@utoronto.ca
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Matti Siemiatycki
Director of the Infrastructure Institute
Professor, Department of Geography and Planning, Faculty of Arts and Science
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Community and regional planning
- Congestion management
- Cycling
- Housing; Solutions for commercial vacancies
- Infrastructure finance and delivery
- Public-private partnerships
- Transit and commuting
- Transportation policy and planning
- Urban planning
- Urban transit
Office: 416-946-5145
Mobile: 647-680-8963
Website
Email: siemiatycki@geog.utoronto.ca
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Sara Grimes
Associate Professor
Director, Knowledge Media Design Institute (KMDI)

- Campus
- Faculty
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Children and digital culture
- Children and media; literature
- Children and social media
- Children as content producers/creators
- Children's literature and controversy
- Children's play
- Children's privacy
- Children's rights online
- Digital games/videogames
- Digital play
- Digital/video game regulation and controversies
Office: N/A
Website
Email: sara.grimes@utoronto.ca
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Shoshanna Saxe
Associate Professor

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Civil engineering
- Embodied carbon/GHG
- Greenhouse gas emissions
- Infrastructure
- Sustainable cities
- Sustainable construction
- Transport
Office: N/A
Email: s.saxe@utoronto.ca
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Steve Joordens
Professor of Psychology at U of T Scarborough

- Campus
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Anxiety; Social pressure; Managing boundaries
- Attention
- Connecting psychology to world events
- Consciousness
- Family and interpersonal relationships
- How epidemics affect those with anxiety
- How physical distancing will forever change the ways we interact
- Memory
- Mental well-being
- Trauma
Office: (416) 287-7469
Email: steve.joordens@utoronto.ca
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