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I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Canadian Municipal Barometer Research Partnership at INRS (urbanisation) and a visiting scholar at Western University'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 research sits at the intersection of provincial politics, public policy, and local and urban politics. More specifically, I often examine how policy issues are discussed, understood, 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. ​

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For my doctoral dissertation, 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 estimated provincial party positions in left-right space to measure polarization across post-war provincial elections. I also explored party position change between consecutive elections. I demonstrate throughout my dissertation that parties construct their policy positions relationally, meaning within the context of their party system. This project contributes to our understanding of provincial party system dynamics and strategic party behaviour, and it was supported by a SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship.

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I have taught undergraduate courses in public policy and data science. I am also a member of Jack Lucas' reading group.