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Dr. Susan Bartels is a Clinician-Scientist and Canada Research Chair in Humanitarian Health Equity at Queen’s University. In addition to practicing emergency medicine, she conducts global public health research focused on how women and children are impacted by humanitarian crises. While much of her work has been in Sub-Saharan Africa, she has also worked in the Middle East as well as in Asia and Latin America. She is currently the lead investigator on research projects funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, and Elrha. Much of her current research is focused on investigating peacekeeper-perpetrated sexual exploitation and abuse in Haiti and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Dr. Bartels is interested in using innovative methods to improve understanding of the social determinants of health in complex environments such as armed conflict and natural disasters. After completing fellowship training in international emergency medicine and a Masters of Public Health degree at Harvard University, Dr. Bartels was faculty at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative where she conducted research for the Women in War program. Dr. Bartels returned to Queen’s University in 2014 and lives in Kingston with her husband and two children.

Dr Jamie Ferrill is the Discipline Lead of Financial Crime Studies and Lecturer in the same at the Australian Graduate School of Policing and Security, Charles Sturt University. She has nearly a decade of law enforcement experience, having worked for Canada Border Services Agency prior to commencing an academic career. Jamie holds a PhD in Organizational Behaviour from Loughborough University (UK), a Masters in Homeland Security Leadership from the University of Connecticut (US), and a Bachelors in Criminal Justice from Mount Royal University (Canada). A political sociologist, Jamie researches threats to national and economic security. With a focus on border security, her work explores the role of human actors and ideology in organisational processes, as well as in transnational cooperation and collaboration. Jamie is working on the IIGR’s project on financial crime, addressing intergovernmental dimensions.

Dr. Todd Hataley is a professor in the School of Justice and Community Development at Fleming College.  He is a retired member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.  During his tenure as a federal police officer, he worked as an investigator in organized crime, national security, cross-border crime and extra-territorial torture.  Dr. Hataley is an adjunct associate professor at the Royal Military College of Canada and in the Australian Graduate School of Policing and Security at Charles Sturt University in Canberra, Australia.  His research currently focuses on the management of international boundaries, money laundering, Indigenous policing and transnational crime.  He is working on the IIRG’s project on the intersection of international and traditional Indigenous boundaries.

Curdin Derungs is a professor in the field of public management at the University of Applied Sciences of the Grisons (UASG), Switzerland. As the deputy head of the Center for Administrative Management he is responsible for consulting and research of public institutions and non-profit organizations. His research focuses on topics related to community management (strategy, organization, structures) and the political system on the local and regional level (federalism, participation, public corporate governance).

He holds an PhD Degree in Business Administration and a Master’s degree in Economics both from the University of St.Gallen, Switzerland, and was a visiting researcher at the University of Glasgow, United Kingdom. Afterwards, he was responsible for public sector consulting at Ernst & Young, Switzerland. Curdin Derungs has gained broad experience in economic impact analyses and evaluations and has accompanied public institutions in organizational development and review of strategic direction. His clients include federal institutions and states governments, and municipalities as well as international organizations and NPOs (e.g., World Health Organization, International Committee of the Red Cross, United Nations).

During his professional career at the UASG, Curdin Derungs has been responsible for numerous research projects. Curdin Derungs is particularly interested in the interaction between the public and private actors and is the author of various publications on the Swiss political system as well as on governance models, forms of public management and strategies of public institutions. He teaches 'Public Management' as well as 'Microeconomics' at the UASG in undergraduate and graduate level.

Michael Luoma (PhD, Philosophy, Queen’s University, 2023) is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Institute of Intergovernmental Relations (IIGR) and the Centre for the Study of Democracy and Diversity (CSDD) at Queen’s University.

Michael’s research draws contemporary political philosophy into dialogue with grounded contexts of normative and political contestation. Specifically, Michael’s research examines the conditions for political legitimacy in Indigenous – settler relations, with a focus on the requirements for fair negotiation of territorial authority among self-determining peoples in a multinational federal system. Pursuant to this objective, Michael has conducted research on Indigenous political authority and collective self-determination, territorial rights and restitution, federalism, transnational Indigenous communities, and the negotiation of modern treaties.

In his capacity as postdoctoral fellow at the IIGR, Michael is pursuing research on multinational federalism and border governance in the field of Indigenous – state relations, in association with the Institute’s partnership with the 21^st Century Borders project.

You may find additional details about Michael’s research, on the negotiation of modern treaty agreements, on his CSDD profile.

Articles:
Luoma, M. (2024).  “Group-differentiated rights for Indigenous communities that straddle borders.” Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 28 (1): 121–142.

Luoma, M. (2024) “Public Education, Multinational Identity Formation, and Territorial Legitimacy: An Analysis of the 2004 and 2023 Ontario Curricula on Indigenous �ʱ�DZ�����.” Frontiers in Political Science, Peace and Democracy, 6: 1-16.

Luoma, M. & Moore, M. (2024). “Rectifying Historical Territorial Injustices.” Res Publica, 30: 683–703.

Luoma, M. (2022). “Collective Self-Determination, Territory and the Wet'suwet’en: What Justifies the Political Authority of Historic Indigenous Governments over Land and �ʱ�DZ����?” Canadian Journal of Political Science, 55(1), 19-39.

Book Chapters:

Luoma, M. (2025). “Indigenous Perspectives on Climate Change.” In Madsen, R. & Sullivan, W.M. (Eds.), Ethikon Series in Comparative Ethics: Climate Change and Morality. Brookings Institution Press. Forthcoming.

Book Reviews and Encyclopedia Entries:

Luoma, M. “James Tully: Indigenous Self-Government in Modern Canada.” In Gray, K. (Ed.), Global Encyclopedia of Territorial Rights (pp. 1-10). Springer.

Luoma, M. “Sharing Territories: Overlapping Self-Determination and Resource Rights Cara Nine, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022, pp. 336.” Canadian Journal of Political Science 56 (4): 1000-1002.

Cross Smalley is a Graduate Research Assistant for the Institute of Intergovernmental Relations at Queens University and is currently pursuing his MA in Public Administration at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario. His research has focused on jurisdictional considerations, organizational performance and cybersecurity concerns during the Covid-19 Pandemic in Canada.

Cross has recently completed a group research project in collaboration with HC2P, the University of Montreal and associate partners who were seeking insight into the Canadian policy landscape for digital twin technologies. He has also been participating in a clinical setting at Southlake Regional Health Centers’ Covid-19 Assessment Center in Newmarket Ontario.

He completed his BA in Philosophy with a specialization in Applied Ethics (2020) from Trent University.

Alexandra Green is pursuing a PhD in War Studies at the Royal Military College of Canada. Her anticipated thesis topic is in cyber terrorism. Alexandra is also a graduate of Carleton University’s Masters of Infrastructure Protection and International Security (IPIS) Program where she was awarded a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) grant to fund her research into target selection and extremism. During her undergraduate at Queen’s University she was awarded an undergraduate fellowship, the John Rae award, the Women in Defence and Security Scholarship, the Chancellor’s Scholarship, and was placed on the Dean’s List with Distinction. She has been engaged in research projects on: border security, terrorist resourcing, countering violent extremism, policing, and critical infrastructure. She has been published in the Journal of Money Laundering Control and in the SERENE-RISC digest.

 is Professor of Politics and Public Policy at the University of East Anglia in the UK and fellow with the Queen’s Institute for Intergovernmental Relations (IIGR).  He is also the co-Director of the  and Editor in Chief of the journal  

His research focuses on concepts of democracy, electoral integrity and applied policy solutions to improving the quality of elections.   He work also covers politics, political leadership the policy making process more generally.   

He is the author or co-editor of eight books, including:  (Routledge, 2020), (Routledge, 2022) and  (International IDEA, 2023)

Toby has written commissioned policy reports for national and international organisations, and collaborated with organisations such as International IDEA, Venice Commission, IFES, the Carter Center, Westminster Foundation for Democracy and the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.  He has regularly given invited evidence to many Parliamentary committees.  His research has been externally funded by the British Academy, Leverhulme Trust, AHRC, ESRC, Nuffield Foundation, SSHRC, Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust and the McDougall Trust.   

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