A&S scholars sharing their expertise in the media this week

From test-driving driverless trucks to revealing the connection between favourite songs and attachment styles, scholars from a range of disciplines across the Faculty of Arts & Science are sharing their expertise on a variety of issues in the media.

Here’s some of what they had to say this week.

November 11, 2022

• Centre for Industrial Relations & Human Resources Director and Professor Rafael Gomez talks to the National Observer about the fallout from the Ontario provincial government’s response to the Canadian Union of Public Employees.

November 12, 2022

• Department of Earth Sciences Professor Miriam L. Diamond comments for the Canadian Press on the ecological impact of golf courses.

November 13, 2022

• Department of Psychology PhD graduate Ravin Alaei and Professors Geoff MacDonald and Nicholas Rule’s new research about favourite songs and attachment styles is discussed on CBC Radio: Fresh Air, CTV: The Social, International Business Times and CHUM FM.
• Department of History postdoctoral Fellow Matthieu Vallières writes in the Hamilton Spectator (paywall) about the Ontario provincial government’s invocation of Section 33 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

November 14, 2022

• Department of Geography & Planning Professor Harald Bathelt comments for Global News online on recent tech industry layoffs. 
• The Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy is highlighted by The Washington Post (paywall) and Slate for its work on the rampant use of spyware.

November 15, 2022

• Anna Shternshis, director of the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies and Al and Malka Green professor of Yiddish and Diaspora Studies in the Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures, shares with CBC Radio: All in a Day her work uncovering previously unknown songs of Jewish Ukrainians.
• School of the Environment Assistant Professor Teresa Kramarz explains to CBC News online that lithium extraction is associated with harm to communities and ecosystems.
• Department of Psychology Assistant Professor Rosanna Olsen discusses on TVO: The Agenda the formation and reliability of memories.
• Department of Geography & Planning and School of Cities Professor Matti Siemiatycki comments for CityNews online on how health care and social infrastructure need to keep pace with new buildings.

November 16, 2022

• Citizen Lab director and Department of Political Science Professor Ron Deibert is recognized on Toronto Life’s annual list of the most influential people. He also explains on CBC Radio: The Current how changes at Twitter may put activists and protesters at risk (segment begins at 12:30 mark).
• Department of Computer Science Professor and founder and CEO of Waabi Raquel Urtasun is profiled in Forbes (paywall) and The Globe and Mail (paywall) as the Toronto-based company starts testing driverless trucks on the road, with humans on board.

November 17, 2022

• Department of Political Science Associate Professor Diana Fu, also director of the East Asia Seminar Series at the Asian Institute at the Munk School, writes in The New York Times (paywall) that people-to-people exchange is vitally important to China-U.S. relations. She also comments for The Globe and Mail (paywall) on the surprising critique of the Chinese government by Chinese national students in Canada.
• Political Science and Munk School Professor Lucan Way discusses his new book Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism on CBC Radio: The Current (segment begins at 47:00 mark).
• Department of Political Science and Asian Institute Associate Professor Lynette Ong tells CBC News online that she thinks the exchange between President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was intentional and meant to be captured by media.
• Department of Political Science Professor and Trinity College Fellow John Kirton gives analysis to Global Times, CBC news online and CityNews online of the G20 leaders summit.