DEPE Speaker Series
Welcome to another year of the DEPE Lab Speaker Series!
Please find below the schedule for the upcoming presentations. All presentations are normally scheduled for an hour each. Due to COVID-19, all seminars in 2022-2023 will be held through zoom.
To join the DEPE lab listserv to receive updates about upcoming speaking events, please e-mail Abigail at abigail.fisher@utoronto.caÂ
WINTER 2023 SCHEDULE
| Date and Time | Presenter | Title |
| Wednesday, January 18th, 2023
12:00 p.m. |
Per Engzell
UCL Social Research Institute University College London |
The Long-Run Effects of School Closures on Student Outcomes |
| Wednesday, February 1st, 2023Â
1:30 p.m. |
Thurston (Thad) Domina
University of Chapel Hill, School of Education |
Structuring Choice: School Segregation at the Intersection of Policy and Preferences |
| Wednesday, February 8th, 2023
12:00 p.m. |
Doug Downey
Department of Sociology The Ohio State University |
How Does Schooling Affect Inequality in Cognitive Skills? The View from Seasonal Comparison Research |
| Wednesday, February 15th, 2023
12:00 p.m. |
Scott Davies
OISE, University of Toronto Fatemeh Ameli OISE, University of Toronto |
A School is Born: An Organizational Ecology of Ontario Private Schools
Video recording here: DEPE Lab 02-15-23 |
| Wednesday, March 22nd, 2023
12:00 p.m. |
Reva YunusÂ
Department of Education University of York |
‘Labour class’ children in Indian classrooms: theorizing urban poverty and schooling |
| Wednesday, March 29th, 2023
12:00 p.m. |
Adriano Souza Senkevics
Board of Educational Studies (DIRED) National Institute of Educational Studies and Research AnÃsio Teixeira (INEP) University of BrasÃlia |
Leveling down: impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the drop in learning in Brazilian elementary education |
| Wednesday, April 5th, 2023
1:30 PM |
Sofya Malik
OISE, University of Toronto |
A critical study of demographic data for organizational, district and system change. |
| Wednesday, April 12th, 2023
12:00 PM |
David Diehl
Department of Human and Organizational Development Vanderbilt University |
Multicultural Education Across the Anglosphere: A Cross-National Analysis of Newspaper Framings |
| Wednesday, April 19th, 2023
 10:00 AM ET |
Arthur Sakamoto
Department of Sociology Hong Kong Baptist University |
The Declining Significance of Education for Promoting Equality |
| Wednesday, April 26th, 2023Â
10:30 AM ET |
Duoduo XuÂ
Department of Sociology University of Hong Kong |
School As the Second Home for Children: The Protective Factors of Parental Divorce in Chinese Middle Schools |
WINTER 2022 SCHEDULE
| Date and Time | Presenter | Title |
| Thursday, February 17th, 2022
12:00 p.m. |
Jeanne Sinclair
Faculty of Education, Memorial University of Newfoundland Scott Davies OISE, University of Toronto |
Student achievement trajectories in Ontario: A preliminary look. |
| Wednesday, March 9th, 2022
12:00 p.m. |
Ethan Fosse
Department of Sociology University of Toronto |
The intergenerational consequences of social mobility. |
| Wednesday, March 23rd, 2022Â
12:00 p.m. |
Steven Brint
Department of Sociology University of California, Riverside |
Social justice and academic freedom: The views of scientists and engineers on diversity policies, anti-racism, and free speech. |
| Wednesday, March 30th, 2022
12:00 p.m. |
David Zarifa
Department of Sociology Nipissing University |
Transfer pathways and postsecondary outcomes across regions of Ontario: Insights from statistics Canada’s Education and Labour Market Longitudinal Platform. |
| Wednesday, April 6th, 2022Â
12:00 p.m. |
David Johnson
School of Business and Economics Wilfrid Laurier University |
Variation in high school grading: Evidence from Alberta, Canada |
| Wednesday, April 13th, 2022Â
12:00 p.m. |
Amy Binder Department of Sociology University of California, San Diego |
The conservative and progressive channels of student activism |
FALL 2021 SCHEDULE
| Date and Time | Presenter | Title |
| Wednesday, October 13th, 2021
12:00 p.m. |
Neil McLaughlin
Department of Sociology McMaster University |
Bernie’s Blinders on taxing elite private colleges:  What it means both for American politics and Canadian universities. |
| Wednesday, October 27th, 2021
11:00 a.m. |
Mitchell Stevens
Graduate School of Education Stanford University |
Massive: How MOOCs changed the landscape of education research. |
| Wednesday, November 10th, 2021Â
12:00 p.m. |
Dennis Condron
Department of Sociology, Anthropology, Social Work and Criminal Justice Oakland University |
Schools as refractors: Comparing summertime and school-year skill inequality trajectories. |
| Wednesday, November 17th, 2021
12:00 p.m. |
Marc Stein
School of Education Johns Hopkins University |
Youth commuting and school disengagement. |
| Wednesday, November 24th, 2021Â
12:00 p.m. |
Dylan Reynolds
University of Guelph |
Is there a transfer “Penalty” in Ontario PSE? Insights from the TDSB-ELMLP linkage. |
| Wednesday, December 1st, 2021Â
12:00 p.m. |
Magdalena Janus &Â Eric Duku Offord Centre McMaster University |
Learning about early child development from a population health perspective. |
| Wednesday, December 8th, 2021Â
12:00 p.m. |
Tracy Vaillancourt
Faculty of Education University of Ottawa |
The impact of COVID on youth mental health. |
WINTER 2021 SCHEDULE
| Date and Time | Presenter | Title |
| Tuesday, January 12th, 2021
12 p.m. |
Dr. Minahil Asim
PostDoc, OISE University of Toronto |
Local Governance of Schools – a Double-edged Sword? |
| Wednesday, February 3rd, 2021
1 p.m. |
Dr. Wolfgang Lehmann
Department of Sociology Western University |
Social Class and Higher Education. |
| Tuesday, February 9th, 2021
10 a.m. |
Dr. Eliot Weininger
Department of Sociology SUNY Brockport |
Structural constraints and the school choice strategies of black American middle-class parents. |
| Wednesday, February 17th, 2021
12 p.m. |
Dr. Daniel Hamlin
Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies University of Oklahoma |
Can a Positive School Climate Promote Student Attendance? Evidence From New York City. |
| Friday, April 16th, 2021
12 p.m. |
Dr. Linda White
Political Science University of Toronto |
TBA |
FALL 2020 SCHEDULE
| Date and Time | Presenter | Title |
| Thursday, December10th, 2020
12 p.m. |
Dr. Danny Corral
OISE University of Toronto |
An introduction to the difference-in-differences research design in education research. |
| Thursday, November 26th, 2020
12 p.m. |
Dr. Jonathan Horowitz
Department of Sociology University of Toronto |
Network Position and Academic Achievement in Middle School. |
WINTER 2020 SCHEDULEÂ
| Date and Time | Presenter | Title |
| Monday, January 13th, 2020
11:30 a.m. |
Dr. Angran Li,
Department of Sociology, Zhejiang University |
Family Contexts and Cognitive Skills and Noncognitive Outcomes in China |
| Monday, January 27th, 2020
12 p.m. |
Dr. Frederick de Moll,
Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education, Luxembourg University |
New Styles of Parenting and the Transformation of Cultural Capital |
| Wednesday, January 29th, 2020
12 p.m. |
Dr. Philip Oreopoulos,
Department of Economics, University of Toronto |
The Remarkable Unresponsiveness of College Students to Nudging and What We Can Learn from It |
| Thursday, January 30th, 2020
12 p.m. |
Dr. Axel van den Berg,
Department of Sociology, McGill University |
‘Agency’: Do We Really Need It? |
| Wednesday, February 12th, 2020Â
12 p.m. |
Dr. Ee-Seul Yoon,
Faculty of Education, University of Manitoba |
School Choice and the Polarization of Public Schools in a Global City: A Bourdieusian GIS Approach |
| Wednesday, February 26th, 2020Â
12 p.m. |
Samantha Burns,
M.A. Student OISE, University of Toronto |
Experiments in Early Childhood Education and Care Policy: Does Information Make Parents “Better” Consumers of Care? |
| Wednesday, March 11th, 2020Â
11 a.m. |
Xavier St. Denis and James Hemeon,
Analysts, Center for Income and Socioeconomic Well-being Statistics (CISEWS), Statistics Canada |
New Opportunities for Research on Inequality in Higher Education Using Integrated Data from LISA |
| Wednesday, March 25th, 2020Â
12 p.m. |
Christine Corso,
Research Manager People for Education |
People for Education’s Annual Ontario School Survey: Trends in school resources since 1998 |
FALL 2019 SCHEDULE
| Date and Time | Presenter | Title |
| Wednesday, October 16th, 2019
11 a.m. |
 Adriano Senkevics,
Ph.D. candidate, University of Sao Paulo |
Inequalities in Access to Higher Education in Brazil: First Results from a Panel Analysis |
| Wednesday, October 23rd, 2019
12 p.m. |
 Gustavo Bruno de Paula,
Ph.D. candidate, Federal University of Minas Gerais |
Dropout from Higher Education Undergraduate Courses: An Analysis of the 2012 Entrants at the Brazilian Federal Universities |
| Monday, October 28th, 2019Â
12 p.m. |
 Pauline Proboeuf,
Ph.D. candidate, Sciences Po Paris |
From Parenting Practices to School Choices: French Parents Favouring Alternative Education |
| Monday, November 4th, 2019
12 p.m. |
Dr. Scott Davies,
OISE, University of Toronto |
Estimating Causal Effects of Summer Programs on Early Numeracy: A Canadian Multi-Site, Quasi-Experiment |
| Wednesday, November 20th, 2019Â
12-1 p.m. |
Prof. Mark S. Fox,
Professor of Industrial Engineering and Computer Science, University of Toronto |
The Role of Ontologies in Data Analytics |
| Wednesday, November 27th, 2019Â
12-1 p.m. |
Jill Furzer,
Ph.D. candidate, Canadian Centre for Health Economics,University of Toronto |
ADHD Misidentification: Causes and Mitigators |
| Monday, December 2nd, 2019Â
1-2:30 p.m. |
Karen Fung,
Psychometrician, Council of Ministers of Education, Canada (CMEC) |
Workshop: IEA’s IDB Analyzer |