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I am a postdoctoral fellow with the Canadian Municipal Barometer Research Partnership at INRS (urbanisation) and a visiting scholar at Western's Centre for Urban Policy and Local Governance. I completed my Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of Western Ontario in November 2025. 

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My doctoral dissertation is titled Programmatic Polarization and Party Position Change in Canadian Provincial Party Systems, 1945-2020. I constructed and classified a text dataset of over 450 provincial party platforms by fine-tuning a Large Language Model (LLM). I estimate provincial party positions and measure programmatic polarization, meaning the spread of party policy positions, across post-war provincial elections. I also explore party position change between consecutive elections. My dissertation contributes to our understanding of provincial party system dynamics and strategic party behaviour. This project was supported by a SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship.

 

My research focuses on how policy issues are discussed and governed by political parties and other political actors at the provincial and local levels of government in Canada. Methodologically, I rely on both quantitative (e.g., regression, quantitative text analysis) and qualitative (e.g., interviews, archival research) techniques. ​

 

I have taught introductory undergraduate courses in public policy and data science.