Policy Reform

University of Ottawa Professor Liam Peyton is the inaugural director of the PhD in DTI uOttawa Program (Digital Transformation and Innovation) which was launched in fall 2014 at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering. Professor Liam Peyton was Director of Graduate Programs in Digital Transformation and Innovation from 2013 – […]

Jacques Frémont, recteur de l’Université d’Ottawa, a refusé de s’engager à mener une enquête interne approfondie ou d’envisager des réformes politiques à la suite d’un cas grave de violation des droits de la personne allégué par un ancien chercheur postdoctoral et diplômé du programme de doctorat en DTI de l’Université d’Ottawa, impliquant le déni des

Rocci Luppicini – What you must know about uOttawa Prof. Rocci Luppicini (Part 1) Supervisor Bullying Update #6 (Sep 25, 2021): I wrote a letter to the University of Ottawa President Jacques Frémont on Sep 1, 2021, urging him to conduct an internal investigation of my supervisor bullying case and for policy reforms. Read the letter to uOttawa President Jacques Frémont about how

Rocci Luppicini, Associate Professor, Department of Communication, Faculty of Arts, University of Ottawa, was my uOttawa PhD thesis supervisor in the PhD in Digital Transformation and Innovation Program (E-Business) in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Faculty of Engineering (2015-2019). Before this he was my MA in Communication thesis supervisor in the

The case for policy reform in Canadian higher education to curtail supervisor bullying of students and postdoctoral researchers is easy to make. Reform itself is easy to implement. The point of reform is efficiency and fairness. You may have heard someone say “academia is very political.” What they likely mean is that academia has a