Postdoctoral Researchers

Mathieu Charbonneau
Research interests:
insurance, risk and gambling

Colin Hastings
Research interests:
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 Boucher
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, panopticon, 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

Dani Tardif
Research interests:
The politics of care, Social and community organizing, Anti-racist and intersectional feminisms, Ethnographic and filmic research methods, economic-, racial-, language- and social justice