Postdoctoral Researchers
Mathieu Charbonneau
Research interests:
insurance, risk and gambling
Colin Hastings
Research interests:
algorithmic media, audience data, click-bait, IT practice, participatory monitoring
Erin Lynch
Research interests:
casino, sensory ethnography, empowerment
Doctoral Students
Neha Chugh
Research interests:
dependency, mental health, courts and jurisprudence
Pauline Hoebanx
Research interests:
Slot machines, YouTube, Advertising, Responsible gambling, User-generated content, Social media
Marc Lajeunesse
Research interests:
Games, Valve, Value, Skins Wagering, Online Communities, Online Markets
Andrei Zanescu
Research interests:
Valve, Steam Market, Political Economy, Hegemony, Cultural Production
Master’s Students
Pierre-Olivier Jourdenais
Research interests:
Responsibilization, Online Poker, Gaming, Gender, Surveillance
Cristy Vista
Research interests:
Gamesense, Problem Gambling, Responsible Gambling, Financial Performance, RG Performance Measurement, Corporate Social Responsibility
Kira Ettahadieh
Research interests:
video games, livestreaming, Twitch.TV, participatory communities, “gamblification”
Undergraduate Students
Rebecca Aberra
Research interests:
sociology of genetics, genetic risk assessment, genetics of alcohol dependence
Raphaël Belanger
Research interests:
gambling, drugs, harm reductions, organisms “by and for”, destigmatization
Maraika Black
Research interests:
recreational gambling, seniors, aging, quality of life
Katherina Bourcher
Research interests:
youth, Fortnite, “gamblification”
Sophie Jean Gilmore Dummett
Research interests:
drones, military, gaming, toxic masculinity, geek masculinity, mental health
Nashra Paul
Research interests:
Consumer profiling, monitoring, panoptick, cookies, profiling machines
Alumni
Hussein Almahr
Research interests:
speculation, oil, risk, state of emergency
April Bailey
Research interests:
Accessibility, Knowledge Transfer, Art, Augmented Reality, Surveillance, Data mining, Cheating, Gamification
Sarah Bibeau
Research interests:
government, Bill 74, Loto-Québec, liability, gender, lottery
John Bryans
Research interests:
Neoliberalism; Video Game Addiction; Masculinity; Mental Health; Activision Blizzard; Knowledge Translation
Sarah-Lanny Doirin
Research interests:
legislative measures, corporate crime, organized crime, law enforcement
Emily Faraj
Research interests:
Gambling, Risk, Consumption, Super-wealthy, Airports, Travel
Su Goh
Research interests:
apps, social networks, participatory monitoring
Gabrielle Lavenir
Research interests:
Casino, risk, consumption, atmosphere
Claude Leduc
Research interests:
Quantified Self, Reification in Online Spaces, Professionalization in Gaming/Gambling, Online Gambling, Information Society
Myloe-Martel Perry
Research interests:
LGBTQ+, immigration, empowerment, PAR & CBR principles