Writing the Op-Ed: Sharing your research and expertise with a wider public.

The panelists will share a few of their published opinion pieces, and give tips about how they pitch and write an op-ed.

Panelists:

Scott Colby has worked at The Toronto Star for 25 years; the last eight as the Opinion Page editor. As a freelance writer, Scott wrote the parenting column “Late in the Game” about becoming a father two twins later in life and co-authored the national best-selling memoir, “How We Did It: The Subban Plan for Success in Hockey, School and Life” with NHL hockey dad Karl Subban. Scott is currently working on the book “That’s What You Think: A Guide to Writing Op-eds and Short Memoirs.”

Hannah Hoag is a journalist and editor with two decades of experience covering science, energy and climate for newspapers and magazines. She is the deputy editor and the energy and environment editor at The Conversation Canada, and was previously the founding managing editor of Arctic Deeply. She has bylines in Nature, Science, The New York Times, The Globe and Mail, The Atlantic, Scientific American, Hakai, Undark and more. Before becoming a journalist, she studied rare genetic diseases, and earned degrees from Queen’s University, McGill University and Boston University.

Alex Luscombe is a PhD Candidate in criminology at the University of Toronto and an alumnus of Massey College. He works on issues of policing, criminal justice policy reform, and methodological innovation in the social sciences. He has worked on projects for a wide range of national and international organizations, including the Canadian Civil Liberties Association and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. As a data scientist and an expert commentator on issues of policing and criminal justice in Canada, he regularly engages with the media, with quotes and op-eds appearing in a number of news outlets, including the Globe and Mail,Toronto Star, CBC News, as well as science news venues like Nature.

Christine H. Tran (they/she) is a digital media scholar, multimedia writer, and PhD Candidate at the Faculty of Information in the University of Toronto. Their dissertation explores the domestic experiences of women and racialized professional and semi-professional game streamers on Twitch, Amazon’s world-leading platform for live video entertainment. Christine’s broader writing explores the impact of digital platforms upon the economics of cultural and creative work, live streaming, and the home as a networked space. Christine has translated their research for journalistic venues, including op-eds on creative labour for Midnight Sun Magazine and coverage of the Toronto arts scene for Intermission and alt.theatre. Christine is a Junior Fellow at Massey College who was elected Don of Hall in 2021-22, a research assistant on the SSHRC-funded project Cultural Workers Organize, and a Graduate Research Fellow at the McLuhan Centre for Culture and Technology.

Participating in at least three sessions of seminars organized by Senior Fellow Kim Kierans is an opportunity to achieve acknowledgments for completing the requirements of Pillar 1 of the Junior Fellows Professional Program.

This panel is open to the Connaught PhDs for Public Impact Fellowship Program.

This is a hybrid event.