Centre for Law, Technology and Society

CLTS Faculty members Dr. Elizabeth Dubois, and Dr. Florian Martin-Bariteau, are co-investigators on a strategic $2.5 Million Partnership Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) on journalism innovation that will support the development of the Global Journalism Innovation Lab/Lab mondial d’innovation en journalisme. The Centre is also a partner of this strategic grant.

Faculty member Dr Teresa Scassa has been appointed Chair of the Government of Canada’s new Canadian Statistics Advisory Council. The Council will advise the Chief Statistician and the Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development on matters concerning the overall quality of the national statistical system, including the relevance, accuracy, accessibility and timeliness of its data.

CLTS Faculty Members Prof. Marina Pavlović and Dr. Amy Salyzyn are co-applicants on a Justice and technology research grant from the Law Foundation of Ontario (LFO) for a project led by Community Legal Education Ontario (CLEO) on the regulation of technologies designed to assist the general public with legal documents.

Dr. Elizabeth Dubois, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication and a CLTS Faculty Member, received, with Dr. Taylor Owen (McGill University), a Canada History Fund grant to run the Digital Ecosystem Research Challenge, a call for proposals for projects examining the uses and impacts of digital media in the 2019 Canadian Federal Election.

Dr Amy Salyzyn has received a Justice and technology research grant from the Law Foundation of Ontario (LFO) for a two-year project that will examine how the public reads and understands complex court documents.