Laboratory Director
Research Assistants and Students
Carolyn Côté-Lussier holds an M.A. in Criminology from the University of Toronto and a Ph.D. in Social Research Methods from the London School of Economics and Political Science. She completed post-doctoral fellowships in Social and Preventive Medicine and at the International Centre for Comparative Criminology at the Université de Montréal.
She is currently an Associate Professor at the Centre Urbanisation Culture Société of the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (Université du Québec). She is an adjunct professor in the Department of Criminology, University of Ottawa. She is the co-director of the “Technology and Cybersecurity” research axe of the Centre international de criminologie comparée, and vice-chair of the Researcher Council of the Digital Research Alliance of Canada. Her research intersects criminology, social psychology, and social and preventive medicine.
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Paul Rodrigues (2023-2025) completed in PhD in the “Doctorat Interdisciplinaire en Santé et Société” program at UQAM. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the PERSONS lab from 2023-2025. He is now an assistant professor at Université de Caen. His research interests intersect health geography, spatial analysis and social inequalities. @LinkedIn
Jean-Denis David (2016-2018) holds an M.A. in Criminology from the University of Ottawa and is completed a Ph.D. in Sociology at McGill University. His graduate research was supported by a Doctoral Fellowship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. His research intersects criminology, sociology and social psychology. He is particularly interested in police-community relationships, including citizens’ perceptions and attitudes toward the police as well as police-citizen encounters. @ResearchGate
Angeline Tsui (2016-2017) (Ph.D student in Experimental Psychology, University of Ottawa). Angeline’s primary research investigates infant language development, with a focus on early bilingualism. Angeline has a strong interest in statistics and she has experience in running regression models and meta-analysis. She is currently the Chair of Psychology Statistics Club (a student organization that aims at organizing regular meetings that talk about cutting-edge statistical methods in the current scientific community).
Victoria Falcone (2017-2018) (MA student in Criminology, University of Ottawa). Her interests lie in the area of wrongfully convicted persons, primarily focusing on the Canadian context. Her research will focus on how race impacts the public’s perception of those who have been wrongfully convicted and how this perception could have an impact on exonerees.