The Team
Celine Cooper
Seniors Research Project Manager
Cooper is a Ph.D candidate in the Department of Humanities, Social Sciences and Social Justice Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE)/University of Toronto. She holds an MA from York University and an honours BA from Queen's University. Celine has worked with UNICEF in the Republic of Georgia and Status of Women Canada. Her research interests focus on issues of language, equality, social organization, nationalism and globalization in the Quebec and broader Canadian contexts. Her work has been featured in a range of academic journals and media outlets including Inside Policy, iPolitics, Canadian Diversity, Gender Place and Culture, the Montreal Gazette and La Presse.
Seniors Research Project Manager
Cooper is a Ph.D candidate in the Department of Humanities, Social Sciences and Social Justice Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE)/University of Toronto. She holds an MA from York University and an honours BA from Queen's University. Celine has worked with UNICEF in the Republic of Georgia and Status of Women Canada. Her research interests focus on issues of language, equality, social organization, nationalism and globalization in the Quebec and broader Canadian contexts. Her work has been featured in a range of academic journals and media outlets including Inside Policy, iPolitics, Canadian Diversity, Gender Place and Culture, the Montreal Gazette and La Presse.
Dr. Joanne Pocock
Lead Researcher
Pocock is one of Canada's leading experts in the field of
linguistic minorities in Quebec. She holds a PhD in sociology and anthropology from Carleton University where she is an adjunct researcher and an MA from York University. Formerly a scholar in the Department of Sociology at Bishop's University, her primary focus as a researcher has been in building knowledge of the situation of Quebec's linguistic minority communities for the federal government and the provincial institutions, networks and community organizations that serve them. As a consultant, she has worked with community organizations in Montreal and the regions including the Cummings Jewish Centre for Seniors, the NDG Senior Citizens Council, the African Canadian Development and Prevention Network, Megantic English-speaking Community Development Corporation and Townshippers' Association.
Dr. Lorraine O'Donnell
Coordinator-researcher, Quebec English-speaking Communities
Research Network (QUESCREN)
O'Donnell holds a graduate diploma in Community Economic Development from Concordia University and a Ph.D in history from McGill University. She has many years of experience as a professional researcher, project coordinator and consultant, with a focus for the last decade on community development projects pertaining to English-speaking Quebecers. She has also taught Canadian history at Université de Laval. Her current research interest is in history and heritage projects that involve and help build communities and social groups such as women's organizations.
