Project Team: Researchers
Dr. Lucia Lo
Lucia Lo is the principle investigator of YISP. She received her BA and MA from McMaster University, and her PhD from the University of Toronto. She is currently Associate Professor of Geography at York University. She recently completed a four-year term as the leader of the Economic Domain of the Joint
Toronto Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Settlement (CERIS), and a two-year term in the Research Management Committee of the GEOIDE (Geomatics for Informed Decision Making) NCE. Her research has spanned several
areas, including transportation modeling, consumer behaviour, migration and immigration. In particular, she has researched extensively on the social and economic situations of Toronto’s Chinese population, covering such areas as their residential patterns, labour market performance, entrepreneurship and
business development, ethnic identity and consumer behaviour. Her credentials include successful management of numerous research projects. Most recently, she was principal investigator of a SSHRC project on immigrant consumer behaviourand a GEOIDE-funded multidisciplinary study of immigrant access to settlement services in Toronto, Vancouver, and Montreal.
Lucia Lo's email: lucialo@yorku.ca
Lucia Lo's website:
http://www.yorku.ca/geograph/Faculty/Profiles/Lo.htm
Dr. Paul Anisef
Paul Anisef is a professor of sociology at York University and Director
of the Centre of Excellence for Research on Settlement and Immigration,
York University. His academic credentials include an M.A. from
Pennsylvania State University and a Ph.D. from Cornell University.
Professor Anisef has an extensive research agenda that includes: the
settlement and integration of immigrant youth; the family-school- child
nexus with relation to children’s learning experiences and academic
outcomes; school- to –work transitions at the secondary and
post-secondary levels of education and careers for Canadian youth. He is
co-author of Opportunity and Uncertainty: The Life Course Experiences
of the Class of '73 (with P. Axelrod, E. Baichman-Anisef, C, James &
A.H. Turrittin) (2000). He has co-edited The World in a City (with
Michael Lanphier) (2003)and Managing Two Worlds (with Kenise M.
Kilbride) ( 2003). Professor Anisef has also written numerous reports
for government, book chapters and refereed journal articles. In 2005,
McGill Queen’s published and edited a collection of essays ( with Robert
Sweet) entitled, "Preparing for Postsecondary Education: New Roles for
Governments and Families".
Paul Anisef 's email: anisef@yorku.ca
Paul Anisef's website:
http://www.arts.yorku.ca/soci/anisef/
Dr. Ranu Basu
Ranu Basu is an assistant professor in the Geography Department at York University. She specializes in urban social and political geography, urban social policy, and the use of critical GIS in the social sciences. More specifically, her research and publications focus on issues related to collective action and community organizations, neighbourhood geographies, urban social justice and inequalities, and the politics of planning for public service facilities, particularly in public education. At present, she is in the midst of a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council - (SSHRC) funded project entitled, Mapping the Politics of Education Reform in Ontario: Examining Public Elementary Schools in Transition (1993-2005); and completing a Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Settlement (CERIS) funded project Maintaining ‘Spaces of Integration’ in an Era of Devolution: Exploring the Geographies of Language and Education Policy in Toronto’s Elementary Schools. Ranu Basu is currently working on an atlas/manuscript mapping the urban landscape of education reform across eight school boards in the Greater Toronto Area.
Ranu Basu's email: ranubasu@yorku.ca
Dr. Valerie Preston
Formerly Director of the Institute for Social Research and Associate Director of CERIS, Dr. Valerie Preston is currently investigating the housing conditions of immigrants and refugees in Canada’s largest metropolitan areas.
Valerie Preston's email: vpreston@yorku.ca
Dr. Shuguang Wang
Dr. Shuguang Wang from Ryerson University is the
Chair of the
Department of Applied Geography, a position that recognized his expertise in all types of spatial analysis including Geographical Information Systems. He has led several pioneering studies of access to settlement services in the City of Toronto.
Shuguang Wang's email: swang@geography.ryerson.ca
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