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Prof Keilty’s new book unpacks how data shapes and reflects queer realities
In Associate Professor Patrick Keilty’s new book Queer Data Studies, he argues that as anti-queer policies from big tech companies increase, alongside the over-policing of queer people and people of color, and growing digital surveillance at borders, it’s more important than ever to examine our data practices through a queer lens. Patrick Keilty, Associate Professor […]
Prof Alexopoulos named Bank of Canada External Deputy Governor
The Bank of Canada has appointed Dr. Michelle Alexopoulos, Professor of Economics with a cross appointment to the Faculty of Information, to the role of external Deputy Governor. Professor Alexopoulos, is the second external Deputy Governor to join the central bank’s Governing Council. The Bank of Canada created this role to bring a greater diversity of perspectives to […]
Hot off the presses: Informed magazine, 2025 edition
The Faculty of Information’s alumni magazine, Informed, has just been published. Read tales of student success and ingenuity, get an overview of Faculty of Information research, find out more about generous alumni gifts, and much more. It’s all in the 2025 edition of Informed.
Shaping the Saudi future
After a successful, two decades long career in health informatics and management consulting, Dr. Fadi Al-Buhairan (Class of 2007) made the leap into the logistics industry in 2019 when he joined Saudi Post as Deputy CEO. Now, having successfully transformed that organization, he has been named head of Saudi Arabia’s new Special Integrated Logistics Zone. […]
Exploring AS
The Centre for Culture and Technology at the Faculty of Information has announced its theme and research focus for the next programming year. In 2025-26, its programming will be devoted to art and scholarship, research and conversation, that puts pressure on construction of the machine learning revolution as “artificial intelligence.” Read the full description on the Centre’s website. At the […]
Prof Christoph Becker named to SDGs Scholars Academy
Professor Christoph Becker of the Faculty of Information has been appointed to the SDGs Scholars Academy, one of five new fellows named earlier this week. The SDGs Scholars Academy is a dynamic think tank within the SDGs@UofT that fosters transdisciplinary research and mobilizes knowledge to advance the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations and inform future global goals. […]
Prof Jia Xue receives Deborah K. Padgett Early Career Achievement Award
Assistant Professor Jia Xue received the Deborah K. Padgett Early Career Achievement Award on January 18 at the 2025 Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR) Conference in Seattle. The award recognizes individuals who are engaged in innovative scholarship, have embraced a rigorous approach to social work research, and are an emerging influence in the field. It is […]
Research with real-world impact
An interview with Matt Ratto, Associate Dean, Research As a professional faculty founded almost a century ago to train librarians, the Faculty of Information has long engaged in research inspired by the practical needs of people using libraries to access information. This orientation has persisted as the Faculty has expanded to include, first, archival and […]
MMSt alum Rhéanne Chartrand on her new role as the ROM’s Hatch Curator of Indigenous Art & Culture
When she graduated from the Master of Museum Studies program in 2011, Rhéanne Chartrand was thrilled to be one of the first in her class to land a job in her field. A few months later, however, the organization she was working for folded and she found herself unemployed. It was a “reality check” about […]
Jazz Journeys with Alan Stanbridge
For the vast majority of working jazz musicians, the metaphor of the journey has profoundly real implications. It is perhaps unsurprising then, writes Professor Alan Stanbridge in Jazzforschung/Jazz Research, that the theme of travelling has featured extensively in the history and discourses of jazz, in ways that often blur or conflate the real, the fictional and the metaphorical. These […]
MI students launch ‘Great Enablement’ podcast
ISD students Karl-Yann Assah and Kyle Thomas have launched a new five-episode podcast series as a way to share and discuss valuable knowledge and skills related to student success. “Whether you’re a student, young professional or aspiring entrepreneur, this first episode is packed with practical advice and inspiring stories to help you get one step closer to their goals,” […]
See students’ Curatorial Practice mini-exhibits
Stop by the fifth floor of the Bissell Building to six “personal mini exhibits” put together by Master of Museum Studies students taking the Curatorial Practice course (MSL2000H) taught by Assistant Professor Maggie Hutcheson. The challenge of the personal mini exhibit is for students to communicate an aspect of their own history, identity, community or lived […]
Alum Albert Tai’s entrepreneurial journey
Alumnus Albert Tai’s Hypercare startup was featured in the Globe and Mail this week as one of four U of T startups that are solving global challenges with innovative solutions. Tai, who graduated from the Faculty of Information in 2017, launched Hypercare that same year, together with Dr. Joseph Choi, an emergency physician and assistant […]
MMST students, alumna contribute to Governor General’s Award-winning exhibit
Students from the Museum Studies capstone course (2022/23) played a key role in creating an exhibit that has just been named winner of the Governor General’s History Award for Excellence in Community Programming. Grace Kovacs, Hanjia Li, Abera Rajendran and Marie Song helped put together “Standing in the Doorway: Lived Histories and Experiences of the Chinese Community”. The exhibit drew on new oral histories, loaned […]
Crosstalk Series 2024-25
Join the Faculty of Information’s Crosstalk Series, an informal weekly speaker series in which two faculty members discuss their current research, look for common themes and answer questions from the audience. Learn about diverse research in the field of Information, uncover ‘hidden’ connections and encourage crossectoral collaboration within the Faculty. All students, staff and faculty […]
Remembrance Day: Students explore an RCAF Sergeant’s daring escape from a WWII POW camp
Museum Studies students dig up rare ‘diary’ detailing daily life in German POW camps. It’s on display in a new exhibit at the National Air Force Museum of Canada in Trenton Vincent Mancini enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) in 1940 at age 28, training as a navigator. Two years later, his aircraft […]
Faculty of Information at ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work
Faculty of Information professors and students will have a strong presence at the 27th ACM SIGCHI Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW) taking place in San José, Costa Rica next week (November 9-13). CSCW is the premier venue for research in the design and use of technologies that affect groups, organizations, communities, and […]
Congratulations to our newest grads!
The Faculty of Information celebrated its newest grads on October 30. A total of 105 Master of Information students received their degrees alongside one Master of Museum Studies student and five PhD students. Congratulations to all 112 of our Fall 2024 grads. Photos from the ceremony and reception are now available to browse and download.