Doctoral Students

Alison Elizabeth Jefferson

Title: The New Normal? The Practice of Doctoral Education in a Global Pandemic

John Graeme Stewart

Title: Rocks Will Melt With the Sun: Higher Education, National Identity and the Independence Debate in Scotland

Diane Vilma Barbaric

Title: The Politics Behind and the Value of Outbound Student Mobility: Is Canada Missing the Boat?

Clare Gilderdale

Title: Engaging Faculty Members in Innovative Student Programs: Influencing Factors

Gides Christian Noumi I Tchoula

Title: Higher Education Policymaking in Africa: The Role of National Actors in Senegal and Ghana

Janet Joanne Shuh

Title: An Examination of Institutional Structures, Policy, Narratives and Professorial and Other Stakeholder Perceptions and Experiences vis-à-vis Academic Integrity

Cynthia Dundon Hazell

Title: What’s in a Name? A Historical Analysis of Seneca College’s Journey Towards Increased Institutional Differentiation within the Ontario Postsecondary System 2001-2012

Kevin Ramdas

Title: Exploring Institutional Change at Three Ontario Colleges: 2002-2012

Olivier Bégin-Caouette

Title: Small Mighty Centers in the Global Academic Capitalist Race: A Study of Systemic Factors Contributing to Scientific Capital Accumulation in Nordic Higher Education Systems

Laurie Beth Harrison

Title: eLearning in Ontario: Responding to the Winds of Change

Mary Catharine Lennon

Title: In Search of Quality: Evaluating the Impact of Learning Outcomes Policies in Higher Education Regulation

Qin Liu

Title: The Impact of External Quality Assurance Policies and Processes on Curriculum Development in Ontario Postsecondary Education

Paula Patricia Green

Title: The Impact of Internationalization on the Regionalization of Higher Education in the English-speaking Caribbean: A Case Study of the University of the West Indies

Xiaoxu (Sharon) Li

Title: The Role of the Board of Trustees in Public Universities in China

Suzanne Forgang Miller

Title: Thesis Work: An Ethnography of the Writing and Text Production of Professional Graduate Education Students

Pierre Gilles Piche

Title: Systemic and Climate Diversity in Ontario’s University Sector

Gary Lawrence Gannon

Title: Human Resources Programming and its Impact on Leadership within Governing Boards of Ontario Community Colleges

Kevin Joseph Lee Hayes

Title: An Investigation of Professional Development of the Apprenticeship and Trades Professoriate in Two Ontario Colleges

Bryan Shaun Anil Gopaul

Title: The Practice of Doctoral Education: A Bourdieusian Analysis of the Socialization of Doctoral Students

Chad Nuttall

Title: Everyday Tension between Collegiality and Managerialism: Administrators at a Canadian Research University

Elyse K. Chaplin

Title: The Experience of Students with Learning Disabilities Transitioning to Postsecondary education

Anne Caroline Charles

Title: Policy Windows and Changing Arrangements: An Analysis of the Policy Process Leading to the Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology Act, 2002

Renu Kanga Fonseca

Title: Motivations and Experiences of Elected Governing Council Members

Pamela Gravestock 

Title: Does Teaching Matter? The Role of Teaching Evaluation in Tenure Policies at Selected Canadian Universities

Vanda Wenona Harvey (Nona) Robinson

Title: Values of Canadian Student Affairs Practitioners

Peter P. Constantinou

Title: Government Relations in the Post-secondary Education Sector in Ontario

Emily Greenleaf

Title: The Toronto Scheme: The Undergraduate Curriculum in the Faculty of Arts & Science at the University of Toronto, 1945-2000

Mia Quint-Rapoport

Title: Open Source in Higher Education: A Situational Analysis of the Open Journal Systems Software Project
Note: Received the 2011 George Geis Award for Thesis of the Year from the Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education.

Lydia Boyko

Title: An Examination of Academic Department Chairs in Canadian Universities
Note: Received the 2010 George Geis Thesis of the Year Award from the Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education.

Johnathan Kirk Kauffeldt

Title: The Commission for Higher Education in Kenya: A Case Study Regarding the Establishment, Role and Operations of an Intermediary Body in the Higher Education System of a Developing Nation

Lucia Padure

Title: The Politics of Higher Education Reforms in Central and Eastern Europe. Development Challenges of the Republic of Moldova

Roopa Desai Trilokekar

Title: Federalism, foreign policy and the internationalization of higher education: a case study of the International Academic Relations Division, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Canada

Tony Di Petta

Title: Information and communication policy development in higher education: a case study of the vice-president's Task Force on Information Technology (TFIT) at Brock University

Gabrielle Kane

Title: A Beam’s Eye View: Examining the Impact of Change on a Medical Practice

Heather Margaret Avery 

Title: "Seeing through serpent and eagle eyes" enacting community in service-learning experiences

Catherine Drea

Title: Ontario Government Policy on Accessibility to the Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology: 1965-1995

Aurelia A. Best

Title: An analysis of priority setting and resource allocation in Ontario colleges of applied arts and technology

Theresa Shanahan

Title: Legal scholarship: an analysis of law professors' research activities in Ontario's English-speaking common law schools

Sandra Gillespie

Title: South-south transfer, a study of Sino-African exchanges
Note: Co-supervised with Professor Ruth Hayhoe while she was Director of the Hong Kong Institute for Education.

Barbara Smith

Title: The Learning Experiences of Older Adults as University Students

Pamela Joan Third

Title: Class encounters of the third kind, bridging the gap between the knowledge of academic insiders and academic outsiders about our universities, in the era of the de-class-ification of Western academic knowledge

Efrem Chayim Rone

Title: Characteristics of higher education doctoral theses, defrosting some frozen assets

Carolin Kreber

Title: Faculty's implicit theories of academic work

George Terence Smith

Title: Federation and fullness, a history of the early years of federation at the University of Toronto from the viewpoint of the three denominational colleges