Team

Lucy Lu is a Chinese-Vietnamese Canadian practicing as an Art art Therapisttherapist, counselling therapist, and artist currently based in amiskwacîwâskahikan/Edmonton. She is the Artistic Director of Thirdspace Playback Theatre Edmonton, and where she facilitates community dialogue and storytelling with marginalized communities through this form of improvised and participatory theatre.

Nykkie Lugosi-Schimpf is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta. Nykkie is a Métis and European scholar, and her work crosses the disciplines of Indigenous Studies, Political Science, and Sociology. Her research investigates issues of racism and nationalism in post-colonial (Canada and the US) and post-communist (Central Eastern Europe) contexts.

Pudens Malibabo Lavu is a postdoctoral researcher in the department of communication at the Université de Sherbrooke. A former journalist in Congo-Kinshasa, he holds a Ph.D. in information and communication from the Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium). His current research project involves evaluating the potential of an online platform, Les as de l’info, based in Quebec, in combating misinformation among young people (aged 8 to 12) and in helping them become informed and enlightened citizens. He is generally interested in the mechanisms involved in constructing the meaning of discourses or narratives by the media (traditional and digital), organizations or actors, relating to an observable reality, such as climate change, deforestation, flooding, pollution, health crises and many others. He is also interested in cyberculture, information ethics and data quality issues.

Clément Mangin participates in the research on clmate denial, after being in charge of the website and social networks of the UNESCO-PREV Chair. He holds an engineering degree in telecommunications from the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (France), and held several positions as a software developer in industry before returning to school to study political science and philosophy at the Université de Montréal, and then completing a master’s degree in environmental sciences at UQÀM. He received a SSHRC grant for his research on the cognitive, ideological and epistemological foundations of negationist and contrarian discourses opposed to inconvenient science (climate change and COVID-19).

Elise Mazaloubaud is an applied political studies student in the international relations program at the Université de Sherbrooke. Her areas of interest are security, masculinism and religious and political extremism. She plans to continue her studies at graduate level with a master’s degree in security and crisis management.

Ian Seth McPhail is a graduate student at Concordia University in Adult Education. He previously finished a B.Sc. in Criminology at l’Université de Montréal, where he worked on a range of projects addressing different moral issues — including cybersecurity and drug policy research, as well as 2SLGBTQIA+ member participation in community-based action-research projects. This experience, combined with his work as a freelance tech educator, has informed his interest in the role of normative ethics in educational decision-making. He is Project Someone’s Communications Officer.

Alexandre Ménard is a bachelor’s student in applied politics – public policy path – at the University of Sherbrooke and acts as an intern for the UNESCO-PREV Chair. Very early in his bachelor’s degree in applied politics, he developed an interest in all questions concerning violence in politics as well as those concerning radicalization, particularly those within the university environment. Within the UNESCO-PREV Chair, he wishes to acquire and develop new skills in research in order to continue his graduate studies at the 2nd cycle and to be able to use all of his acquirements in research mainly affecting his fields of interest.

Veronica Mockler is a socially engaged artist and student researcher at Concordia University. Her work in contemporary art, social pedagogy, oral history, and documentary media redefines how her collaborators are heard in the face of systemic oppression. Her research-creation at the Acts of Listening Lab explores unscripted listening and speaking among activists as a practice of resilience. Her work has been developed and featured in Northern Ireland, Scotland, Germany, Uruguay, the United States, and Canada.

Marco Munier is a doctoral student in the Department of Political Science at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), and a lecturer at the Université de Sherbrooke and UQAM. He specializes in intelligence, defense and national security policy. Marco Munier has published several scientific articles and book chapters on the Canadian and French intelligence apparatuses, the conceptualization of clandestine actions, Canada’s participation in the fight against the Islamic State, and the evolution of Canadian and Italian defense postures. He is also co-editor of Intelligence Cooperation under Multipolarity: Non-American Perspectives (University of Toronto Press, 2024).

After a bachelor’s and master’s degree in anthropology (ULaval, 2011 and 2013), Frédérick Nadeau completed a doctorate in urban studies at INRS (2020). He then pursued his work through postdoctoral internships, first at the Centre d’expertise et de formation sur les intégrismes religieux, les idéologies politiques et la radicalisation (2020-2022), then at the Chaire de recherche France-Québec sur les enjeux contemporains de la liberté d’expression (2023-2024). He is now a research professional with the UNESCO Chair in the Prevention of Violent Radicalization. Dr. Nadeau specializes in political ideologies and social movements, particularly those labelled “radical”. More specifically, he is interested in emerging forms of political ideology and activism in a context where the institutions of liberal democracy are being challenged. Among other things, he carried out a four-year ethnographic survey during which he infiltrated Quebec’s extreme right to share the daily lives of activists and understand their paths of commitment. His work earned him the Relève Étoile Paul-Gérin-Lajoie prize from the Fonds de recherche du Québec (June 2020). He has published in various French- and English-language journals (Bulletin d’histoire politique, Anthropologica, Canadian Ethnic Studies, Recherches sociographiques), and his expertise is frequently sought by local, national and international media (Radio-Canada/CBC, Le Devoir, La Presse, RTS-Radio Télévision Suisse, Le Monde, El País, TVA, Montreal Gazette).