Aboriginal people and other Canadians :

Dr. David N. Collins is Head of the Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies and Deputy Director of the Center for Canadian Studies at the University of Leeds. His academic interests include the comparative problems of European colonial expansion within the Northern Hemisphere. His publications include “Culture, Christianity and the Northern Peoples of Siberia and Canada" and bibliographic works including Siberia and the Soviet Far East. Dr. Geoffrey Mercer is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy of the University of Leeds. He is a member of the British Association of Canadian Studies and former Review Editor of the British Journal of Canadian Studies. He has published on Aboriginal peoples and the Welfare State and also extensively on disability issues. Dr. Heather Norris Nicholson is a Senior Lecturer in Geography at Ripon and York (a college of the University of Leeds). Within Canadian Studies she teaches on a range of socio-cultural issues, has research interests in Aboriginal film-making and tourism and is Vice-President of the British Association of Canadian Studies. Dr. Martin Thornton is Director of the Center for Canadian Studies at the University of Leeds. His teaching and research interests fall into the area of Canadian foreign policy and the Cold War. His publications include The Domestic and International Dimensions of the Resettlement of Polish Ex-Servicemen in Canada, 1943-1948 and an edited book of Nancy Astor's Canadian Correspondence, 1912-1962. Dr. Roy Todd is an Executive Committee member and former Director of the Center for Canadian Studies at the University of Leeds. He is currently Director of Research at Trinity and All Saints, a college of the University of Leeds. His current research is focused on urban Aboriginal people in Canada. Previous Canadian research has covered aspects of multiculturalism and policing and "race" relations. Dr. David S. Wall is a Senior Lecturer in Department of Law at the University of Leeds. His research interests and publications are in the field of policing, cybercrimes, access to justice and criminal justice professionals. He has conducted research into access to justice related issues within the Canadian criminal justice system.