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MARTIN PROSPERITY

INSTITUTE is the world’s leadingthink-tank on the role of sub-nationalfactors – location, place & city-regions –in global economic prosperity.http://martinprosperity.org

CITIZEN LAB focuses on advancedresearch & development at theintersection of digital media & worldcivic politics.www.citizenlab.org

SCHOOL OF GLOBAL AFFAIRS

investigates global economic trends &builds relationships with partners around theworld in business, government & academia.www.globalaffairs.utoronto.ca

SOCIAL ECONOMY CENTRE

promotes & disseminatesmultidisciplinary research & policyanalysis on issues affecting thenon-profit sector, referred toas the “social economy.”http://sec.oise.utoronto.ca

PROGRIS is a program onGlobalization & Regional Innovation

Systems at the Munk Centre forInternational Studies examining howfirms & institutions interact tofoster the innovation processin a regional context.www.utoronto.ca/progris/about_us/

CENTRE FOR INTERNATIONAL

HEALTH develops & sustains innovativemultidisciplinary academic courses,research & programs that advocate& advance global health research.http://intlhealth.med.utoronto.ca

CENTRE FOR URBAN HEALTH

INITIATIVES reflects a diverse rangeof people working, researching& concerned with urban health.www.utoronto.ca/cuhi

WHO ... SOME OF OUR FACULTY

MEGAN BOLER investigates socialjustice in political & cultural contextsincluding cultural & communications& media studies, digital media &democracy.

ADRIAN BLACKWELL researcheshow urban form exacerbates social &economic isolation & the production,

Social InnovationCANADA’S ANSWERS TO THE WORLD’S QUESTIONS

WHY U OF T FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION?

U of T: working together at thecutting edge of social innovation.

Interdisciplinary research that improves the way we live.

distribution & consumption of food.

RON DEIBERT works at theintersection of technology & humanrights, fighting to break throughInternet censorship worldwide.

RICHARD FLORIDA is globallyrecognized for his ideas on “creativeclass.”

MERIC GERTLER examines whycreative & innovative industries &individuals in specific fields are drawn tocertain city-regions more than others.

CHRISTOS HATZIS is stronglyinfluenced by the cross-fertilization thatoccurs when different musical culturescome into contact & aims to engage hisaudiences directly through socialactivism.

BEN LEVIN examines broad areasof education policy & is widely knownfor his work in educational reform,educational change, educational policy& politics.

ROGER MARTIN is devoted toequipping those interested in corporatecitizenship and social entrepreneurshipwith better theories and tools withwhich to shape their actions.

KELLY METCALFE designed adecision aid to help women makechoices about breast cancer treatment.

ERIC MILLER is a world leader inurban transportation research. He iscurrently working to develop advancedmicrosimulation systems for modelling

travel & other urban spatial processes.

FAYE MISHNA studies the effects ofbullying, cyber abuse, cyber counselling& school-based interventions withchildren at risk.

JOHN MYLES is an internationallyrenowned authority in political sociology& social stratification.

ITO PENG focuses on comparativewelfare states in Asia and Europe and theimpacts of post-industrial andglobalization pressures on East Asianwelfare states.

JANICE GROSS STEIN is a leadingadviser on global conflict to theCanadian government & to governmentsaround the world.

DANIEL TREFLER conductsresearch on how improving childhoodexperiences can positively impact anation’s economic prosperity.

JOE WONG focuses on publicpolicy & political economy in EastAsia. Building on his earlier workon comparative welfare states,his forth-coming book examineshealth biotechnology developmentin Asia.

For more information: www.utoronto.ca www.thisisuoft.utoronto.ca www.research.utoronto.ca

Outside U of T’s Munk Centrefor International Studies, homeof the Citizen Lab