- Location
- Zoom
- Series/Type
- DLSPH Partner & Affiliate Event
- Format
- Online
- Dates
- October 12, 2023 from 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Links
The Upstream Lab is a non-profit research lab based at MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions, St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. We are dedicated to improving the health and well-being of the population through addressing issues related to social determinants of health.
In this Episode 4 of our Speaker Series, our goals are to
– discuss myths about renters, landlords and housing affordability
– share how researchers, academics and public policy professionals can support advocates and movements to solve the housing crisis
– define ‘unruly’ research methodology and other ways we can change the landscape of conducting homelessness research
Speakers:
Sophia Ilyniak is the Research Manager for the Housing First for Youth Demonstration Project with the Making the Shift Youth Homelessness Demonstration Lab (MtS DEMS). Prior to this role, she served as Co-Chair of A Way Home Toronto’s Expert Steering Committee, with the goal of building a strategy for ending and preventing youth homelessness in Toronto. She has also worked in frontline harm reduction and other social service and community health environments. In 2022, Sophia published the Make-work methodology: Canadian homelessness research and its role in austerity.
Ricardo Tranjan is a political economist and senior researcher with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Previously, Ricardo managed Toronto’s Poverty Reduction Strategy and taught at universities in Ontario and Quebec. His early academic work focused on economic development and participatory democracy in Brazil, his native country. His current research is on the political economy of social policy in Canada. Ricardo is the author of The Tenant Class book published in May 2023.
For more information and to register, visit https://upstreamlab.org/speakerseries-4/