Social policy
Akwasi Owusu-Bempah
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto Mississauga
Governing Board Chair, Massey College

- Campus
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Cannabis
- Crime
- Criminal justice
- Defunding police
- Drug policy
- Drugs
- Policing
- Protests and marches on both sides of the border
- Race and crime
- Race and ethnic relations
- Race and racism
- Racialized law enforcement
- Racism and criminal justice
- Rayshard Brooks
- Social policy
Office: 416-978-7124 ext.240
Website
Email: a.o.bempah@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
David Hulchanski
Professor, Housing and Community Development, Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work; cross-appointed with Geography and Planning, and Urban Studies

- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Affordable housing
- Community development
- Gentrification
- Income inequality
- Neighbourhoods
- Private rental sector
- Social policy
- Subsidized housing
Office: 416-978-1973
Mobile: 416-509-5806
Website
Email: david.hulchanski@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Ito Peng
Professor, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts and Science
Professor,School of Public Policy and Governance, Faculty of Arts and Science
Canada Research Chair in Global Social Policy
- Campus
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Canada’s approach to long-term care
- Child care policy
- East Asia/Asia Pacific public policy
- East-west comparisons
- Elder care policy
- Family and gender policies
- Fertility
- Japan
- Marriage and aging society
- Social policy
- South Korea
- System issues in long-term care
- Systemic issues at LTC facilities
- Taiwan
- Women and migration
Office: 416-946-5902
Languages: Japanese
Email: ito.peng@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Judith Taylor
Professor, Department of Sociology, Women and Gender Studies Institute, Faculty of Arts & Science
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Culture and Popular Culture as relates to other expertise
- Feminism and Feminist Perspective
- Gender Relations
- Social Movements and Activism
- Social policy
- Sociological framings of social problems
Office: email preferred
Email: judith.taylor@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Judith Teichman
Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto Scarborough

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Anti-government sentiment
- Argentine politics
- Chilean politics
- Drug trade
- Economic policy
- Inequality
- Latin American politics
- Mexican politics
- Poverty
- Social policy
- Violence in Mexico
Office: 416-946-8914
Languages: Spanish
Email: judith.teichman@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Michael Donnelly
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy

- Campus
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Canadian views on immigration and refugees
- Ethnic Politics
- European politics
- Immigration
- Public opinion
- Social policy
Office: 416-978-0344
Email: mj.donnelly@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Micheal Shier
Associate Professor, Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work

- Campus
Areas of Expertise
- Homelessness
- Labour market
- Leadership
- Nonprofit organizations; co-operatives
- Occupational health
- Partnerships
- Social enterprises
- Social entrepreneurship
- Social financing
- Social innovation
- Social policy
Office: 416-946-8607
Website
Email: m.shier@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online