End of the decade

David Jenkins

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Nutritional Sciences

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
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Kinesiology & Physical Education

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
  • St. George

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
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
• Department
  • Anthropology
• Centres
  • Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Science

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
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
• Department
  • Geography & Planning
• Centres
  • School of Cities

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
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Information
• Centres
  • Knowledge Media Design Institute

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
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering
• Department
  • Civil & Mineral Engineering
• Centres
  • School of Cities

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
  • U of T Scarborough
• Department
  • Psychology

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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