Team

Graduate Students

William Beaudry

Currently a Master's student in political science at Université Laval, William is interested in political participation in general, and electoral participation in particular. His dissertation examines the mechanisms of electoral participation in Indigenous communities in the Quebec and Canadian contexts.

Clément Bourdeau

Clément is currently a Master's student in political science at Université Laval. His research interests revolve around political participation and political socialization. His dissertation focuses on the political participation of individuals in situations of poverty and social exclusion.

Maélie Pelletier

Maélie holds a bachelor's degree in political science from Laval University and is currently pursuing a master's degree in political science. She is interested in various forms of political participation, decision-making processes, and gendered socialization. Her thesis focuses on barriers to women's political candidacy, with the aim of situating women's individual decision-making processes within their institutional and cultural contexts.

Rémi Richard

Rémi Richard is a master's student in political science at Laval University. He is interested in political thought, electoral systems, and everything related to democratic education. He has been attending the Pan-Canadian Youth Parliament and the Acadian Youth Parliament since 2018. His thesis broadly addresses the issues of what content should be taught in democratic education and through which avenues (from schools to NGOs).

Juliette Samson

Juliette holds a bachelor's degree in public affairs and international relations from Laval University and a master's degree in international relations from the University of Amsterdam. Her thesis project involves creating an asynchronous online democracy education course for immigrants in Quebec and testing its effectiveness through a field experiment. More generally, she is interested in immigration, participation, and human rights. She is also the coordinator of the Access and Support for Integration Program (PASI) and the full participation of immigrants.

Research Team

Current Team

Thomas Gareau Paquette

Thomas is a MA student in the political science department at McGill University, He is interested in the changing nature of the determinants of Canadians' vote choice and the effect of institutions on political behavior regarding redistribution in the advanced democracies. Thomas' work for prof. Mahéo involves visualizing data, developing surveys, and managing data.

Former team members

Christopher Beaulieu

Christopher holds a MA in applied political studies from the University of Sherbrooke. His research interests are broadly in political sociology with a focus on youth who are politically disinterested. His thesis applied the photovoice approach (Wang & Burris 1997) to political science.

Audrey Brennan

FNRS research Fellow and PhD candidate at Université libre de Bruxelles and Université Laval. Her research focuses on the causes and consequences of political parties’ reform of leadership selection mechanisms. She favours the use of mixed-methods research protocols.Start date: Fall 2018

Justine Béchard

Justine is currently completing a bachelor's degree in political science at Université Laval. Her research interests are diverse, having participated in various projects in both political science and industrial relations during her studies. She wants to learn more about electoral behaviour, particularly in connection with lifestyle politics. She is also interested in research and interventions in the development of sustainable health of individuals, organizations, and communities.

Catherine Desjardins

With bachelor's degrees in international studies and social work, Catherine worked at the Quebec National Assembly for 8 years, before returning to school to pursue a Master's degree in social work in 2022. Here, she works on the implementation of public policy in the field of social services. She contributes to the PASI research project under the direction of Valérie-Anne Mahéo.
Catherine contributed to the PASI project from 2022 to 2023.

Elizabeth Hall

Elizabeth is currently finishing her last semester for the integrated economics and political science Bachelor's degree at Université Laval. Her work on the team consists of transcribing interviews and focus groups conducted for the PASI project.

Marie Fester

Marie is a second-year MA student in the department of political science at McGill University. Her interests lie in international and comparative political economy as well as behavioral science. She has been a research assistant for Dr. Mahéo since 2020.

Colin Scott, PhD

Post-doctoral fellow Department of Political Science, Concordia University

My research focuses on the psychology and politics of diversity. I study the adaptation and participation of newcomers and how the social perceptions of others influence support for the rights of minority communities. The main issues examined in my research relate to processes of inclusion and integration and the reactions of majority group members to changing diversity in their communities. I am also interested in research methods and the challenges of conducting social science research in cross-cultural settings, drawing primarily on survey and experimental methods to study public opinion and political behaviour.

Philippe Chassé (MA McGill, 2019)

Geneviève Plante (BA McGill, 2014)

Tim Roy (MA, McGill, 2020)

Maria Surilas (BA McGill, 2014)

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