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Peter S. Anderson, M.A. The role of communication in the social, economic and cultural development of rural and urban areas. Advanced communication networks. Regulation and policy governing telecommunications, broadcasting and information systems. Emergency and disaster communication. web / e-mail
Alison C.M. Beale, Ph.D.
Cultural policy changes looked at in the international context of the formation of trading blocs and regimes (NAFTA, MAI); cultural development and the challenge of representing cultural rights as human rights; the application of feminist methodology to cultural policy analysis; communications policy, the political economy of communication, and their relationship to public access to communication and public ability to participate in political decision-making. web / e-mail
Peter Chow-WhitePh.D.
Current Research Interests: New media & technology, Race; culture, Genomics, Bioethics, Health, Information society, Encoding.
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Bruce Clayman, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Physics, Faculty of Science at Simon Fraser University.
Indicators of success in knowledge transfer; Economic development. Clayman is former Vice-President, Research and Dean of Graduate studies at SFU and former President and CEO of the Great Northern Way Campus in Vancouver. He is a member of the Vancouver Economic Development Commission, Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors of the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research. He chairs the federal Interagency Panel on Research Ethics. web / e-mail
Nancy Duxury, Ph. D.
CECC
Andrew FeenbergPh.D.
ACT Lab
Gordon A. Gow, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, University of Alberta
Anil Hira, Ph.D.
Anil Hira is an Assoc. Professor in the Political Science Dept. and Latin American Studies Programme. He has written books and articles Latin American macroeconomic and trade policy, energy regulation and integration,
development project management, outsourcing, and industrial and technology policy. His current interests are in technology policy for development, including institutional and policy arrangements as well as renewable energy
policies. web / e-mail
J. Adam Holbrook, P.Eng (Associate Director)
Research activities centre on the analysis of science, technology and innovation (STI) policy and program activities in both the public sector and the private sector, including policy and program evaluation. He is a member of the management committee of the national Innovation Systems Research Network. He has published extensively books on regional innovation systems in Canada; he has been a guest editor for Science and Public Policy for special issues on S&T indicators and S&T issues in Latin America. He carries out teaching and consulting activities in S&T and innovation policy for international development agencies which has included UNESCO, UNDP, the Organization of American States and the Canadian International Development Agency) / e-mail cv: PDF photo: JPG.
Dal Yong JIN
Current research interests include: Globalization and Media, Asian Media and Culture, Online Game Studies/ Social Media, Technology and Culture, Political Economy of Culture, Telecommunications Policy, and Science Journalism. For more information see http://pages.cmns.sfu.ca/dal_yong_jin/
Martin Laba
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William Leiss, Ph.D.
a Fellow and Past-President (1999-2001) of the Royal Society of Canada and an Officer in the Order of Canada. From 1999 to 2004 he held the NSERC/SSHRC Research Chair in Risk Communication and Public Policy in the Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary. From 1994 to 1999 he held the Eco-Research Chair in Environmental Policy at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. His earlier academic positions were in political science (Regina, York), sociology (Toronto), environmental studies (York), and communication (Simon Fraser). At Simon Fraser he was also Vice President, Research. web (external) / e-mail
Brian Lewis, Ph.D.
Film and video studies; comparative broadcast and film policy; society, technology, policy, education. web / e-mail
Elicia Maine, Ph.D.
Elicia Maine is an expert in the management of technological innovation and in the commercialization of advanced materials. She has published her research in several leading technology management and technology entrepreneurship journals, including Research Policy, Small Business Economics, the International Journal of Technology Management, and Technovation. Maine has also developed an investment methodology for materials, a strategic tool used to assist seed capital firms in assessing early stage material innovations. She has co-authored a manual on this topic, "Succeeding with New Materials: a Comprehensive Guide for Assessing Market Potential" available from the SFU bookstore. Current research interests include: the evolution and growth dynamics of new technology based firms in the advanced materials, nanomaterials, fuel cell, and bio-nano industries.
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Stelvia Matos, Ph.D.
Stelvia Matos holds a B. Eng. Chemical Engineering, M. Eng. and DPhil. Civil Engineering (University of São Paulo- Brazil). Her research areas include engineering policy, complexity theory applied to sustainable
development, sustainable development innovation, , life cycle assessment, and social aspects of innovation dynamics. Her research involves agriculture, aquaculture, chemical, energy, forestry and tourism sectors,
with field studies performed in Brazil, Bosnia, Canada, China, Italy, the Netherlands, the UK, and the US. Her research has been funded by SSHRC, IDRC (International Development Research Centre) and GE3LS (Genomics,
Ethical, Environmental, Economic, Legal and Social Program of Genome Canada). She has published at Harvard Business Review (L.A. Edition), Journal of Operations Management, Research Policy, and Journal of Business
Ethics. E-mail: smatos@sfu.ca
Ian McCarthy, Ph.D.
Dr. Ian McCarthy, who worked for several years as a manufacturing engineer before earning his PhD in operations strategy from the University of Sheffield in Britain, came to SFU from the University of Warwick, England where he was a Reader and head of the organizational systems strategy unit. His current research focuses on the design and operational performance of organizations, in particular he is interested in operational complexity, mass customization and new product development. As the new Canada Research Chair in Management of Technology at SFU, Ian will focus his research on discovering how best to design and manage biotechnology companies. He'll also head up a new centre for research in biotechnology management. web / e-mail
David Mitchell, Ph.D.
Critical communication infrastructures.
Catherine Murray, Ph.D.
Cultural practices, cultural participation. Broadcast policy, communication rights, global trade. Audience, cultural studies: post-positive survey design in audience and cultural studies. Consumer adoption of innovation. web / e-mail
Morley Lipsett, Ph.D.
Management of research and development in computer; optics and aerospace industries. web / e-mail
Roman Onufrijchuk, Ph.D.
Communication design for media: history and current principles, practices, theories and criticism. Organizational communication. Communication technologies, play, imagination and the human predicament. web / e-mail
Roman is an historian at the Centre for Policy Research on Science and Technology. He is currently involved in projects oriented by historical and theoretical questions and methods. Over the preceding year I have been reviewing current and canonical literature on the history of civilizations (Fertile Crescent In particular; origins of writing, encoding and cryptography), as well as current writing on communication history and theory. Drafts of two papers, by way of requests for feedback, have been posted on academia.edu over the last two months. Current projects include: Monitoring developments in robotics, particularly performativities in domestic, care-giving, institutional, and military applications; Effects of the experience of Great War (1914-1918) on the technology and communication thought of Harold Adams Innis. The study, dealing with the specific impact of WWI on Canadian thinking about technology and science policy as expressed in the works of Harold Adams Innis, now nearing completion. Expected date for publication, summer, 2012.; Final articulation toward publication and course on design thinking – broad enough to articulate and teach general principles, and flexible enough to allow for discipline-specific pedagogical and research applications – nearing completion. Draft form currently piloted in distance format at the Masters of Arts in Communication and Technology, University of Alberta. ;Completing research toward a comparative analysis of contributions and circumstances of four founding figures of early electrotechnical communication: Edison and Tesla, Marconi and Fessenden.
Richard Smith, Ph.D. (CPROST Director)
Richard Smith is a Professor in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University. He is the Director of the Centre for Policy Research on Science and Technology (CPROST) at SFU. Smith's research focus is social
inclusion (and exclusion) and the role of new media in social change. He has an ongoing interest in technology for education, privacy and surveillance in public spaces, online communities, and the wireless information society.. web / e-mail
David Zanvliet, Ph.D.
David Zandvliet is an Associate Professor with the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University and an Adjunct Research Fellow at Curtin University of Technology (Australia). An experienced teacher and researcher, he has published numerous articles in international journals and presented refereed conference papers on six continents and in over 15 countries. His career interests lie in the areas of science, technology and environmental education. As a former director of the Faculty's Centre for Educational Technology, he has considerable experience in the design and evaluation of classrooms and in the provision of teacher professional development. He has conducted research and development on learning environments in Australia, Canada, Malaysia, Sri Lanka and Taiwan. He lives on Bowen Island, British Columbia, with his wife and three children.
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