Ph.D. Candidate
University of Western Ontario

Hello!

I am a postdoctoral fellow with the Canadian Municipal Barometer Research Partnership at INRS (urbanisation). I am also a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Western Ontario. 

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My doctoral dissertation is titled Programmatic Polarization and Party Position Change in Canadian Provincial Party Systems, 1945-2020. I code an original 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.

I am broadly interested in Canadian politics, urban and local politics, and public policy. 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.