Last month, Patricia successfully defended her doctoral dissertation entitled: Inuit self-determination and postsecondary education: The case of Nunavut and Greenland, which was supervised by Creso Sá. The entire team, many of which attended Patricia’s mock thesis on September 19th, is very proud of Dr. Gaviria’s accomplishment and wishes her the best in the coming year.
New Project on Entrepreneurship Education in Ontario Announced
September 19, 2013 | Uncategorised
Creso will lead a new Policy Research Project funded by the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario (HEQCO) entitled The State of Entrepreneurship Education in Ontario Postsecondary Education. With the support of graduate students Andrew Kretz and Kristjan Sigurdson, the project will provide a detailed assessment of educational programs in Ontario universities and colleges that…Read More
Many Summer and Fall Conference Presentations
August 13, 2013 | Uncategorised
It has been a busy summer for a number of group members with new papers published and numerous conference presentations on the agenda for the fall. From August to November, group members will be presenting research on a range of topics at several major conferences in St. Louis, San Diego, Lausanne, and Amsterdam. Below see…Read More
Kristjan Sigurdson presents comparison of Canadian and US university technology transfer
March 20, 2013 | Uncategorised
Kristjan Sigurdson presented a comparison of university technology in the University of Toronto and the University of Wisconsin at the Joseph P. Farrell Student Research Symposium of the Comparative, International, & Development Education Centre at OISE on February 22. To see the video recording of Kristjan’s presentation, click the title above and then follow this link.
Merli Tamtik presents on European Research Policy
February 19, 2013 | Uncategorised
Merli Tamtik participated in the Mapping the Global Dimension of Policy conference at McMaster University on January 28-29. At the conference Merli presented on Mutual Learning Initiatives in European Research Policy.
Amy Lemay presented results of research use project
January 11, 2013 | Uncategorised
Over the past few months, Amy has presented findings of the “Linking research to its uses” project, based on field work carried out in 2012 to investigate how research is used in programmatic decision making in a Public Health Unit in Ontario. From October 10-13, the venue was the casrai reconnect12 1st Annual International Conference: Occupy…Read More
Amy Lemay and Andrew Kretz presented papers at the 2012 ASHE annual conference
November 7, 2012 | Uncategorised
Amy Lemay and Andrew Kretz presented papers at the 2012 Association for Study of Higher Education (ASHE) Annual Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada (USA). In one of the papers, The Uptake of University Research in Public Policy: The View of “Users” in a Public Health Unit, authors Amy Lemay and Creso Sá report on an…Read More
Creso Sá, Andrew Kretz and Kristjan Sigurdson presented findings on university tech transfer in the Canadian context
September 17, 2012 | Uncategorised
In September, Creso Sá, Andrew Kretz and Kristjan Sigurdson presented findings from research conducted on technology transfer activities of the University of Toronto at the 25th annual Consortium of Higher Education Researchers (CHER) conference in Belgrade, Serbia. In the presented paper, The Institutionalization of Technology Transfer in Canada: The Roots of Research Commercialization at the…Read More
Creso Sá discusses OECD’s Economic Survey of Canada
June 20, 2012 | Uncategorised
The OECD’s Economic Survey of Canada was released in Ottawa on Wednesday, June 13th. The following day, the Higher Education Group at OISE hosted the two contributing authors in the event “Strengthening Canada Through Post-Secondary Education and Innovation: A Symposium on the OECD’s Economic Survey of Canada”. Creso Sá was a discussant of the chapter…Read More
Creso Sá and Aisha Khaja discuss perspectives on expanding access to higher education in Ontario for the Higher Education Development Association (Hedda) Blog
May 9, 2012 | Uncategorised
Ontario is one of many jurisdictions around the world looking for ways to increase higher education attainment rates. In their article as guest commentators for the Higher Education Development Association’s blog, Creso Sá and Aisha Khaja cover several of the most pertinent issues currently facing higher education and public policy makers in Ontario such as…Read More