Dr. Shanaya Vanhooren
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS)
Canadian Municipal Barometer Partnership
I am a postdoctoral research fellow at INRS working for the Canadian Municipal Barometer. My research sits at the intersection of local and provincial politics, with a focus on political parties and representation. My work draws on quantitative text analysis, archival research, interviews, and regression to examine political parties' policy positions, elected officials' ideas of representation, and public policy more broadly.
I completed my doctoral studies in the Department of Political Science at the University of Western Ontario. I have taught undergraduate quantitative methods and public policy courses. I am also an active member of my community of Norfolk County, Ontario — I am a Director and Vice-Chair for a non-profit organization, Nature's Calling Environmental Education, which is a registered Forest School that provides outdoor education for children.
Research Interests
Provincial political parties’ policy positions · Local politics · Representation · Public policy