Members

Dominic Lapointe

Professor – Department of Urban and Tourism Studies at UQAM 

Email : lapointe.dominic@uqam.ca

Telephone: (514) 987-3000 extension 5031

Bélanger Hélène

Professor – Department of Urban and Tourism Studies at UQAM 

Hélène Bélanger is a professor of urban studies at the University of Quebec in Montreal and a member of the Habitat Research and Action Collective (CRACH). Her research focuses on themes relating to the right to housing, and in particular on gentrification, home and the effects of urban planning interventions on the appropriation of residential environments.

Fortin-Lefebvre Emilie

Professor – Department of Management and Technology at UQAM 

Emilie Fortin-Lefebvre is a professor in the management and technology department of the School of Management Sciences at UQAM. Her researches center around entrepreneurship and marginality. More specifically, her latest work focuses on entrepreneurial support in an Aboriginal context, economic autonomy in Nunavik and entrepreneurship in the agri-food sector in Haiti. More broadly, her interests lie in the relationship between marginality, the link to the territory, social innovation, economic development and public policies. She’s currently anchoring her commitment to indigenous populations by setting up the First Peoples and Inuit Economic Autonomy Studies Center (AEPPI Studies Center). This brings together indigenous and academic expertise in order to develop common knowledge that meets the needs of indigenous peoples.

Guimond Laurie

Professor – Department of Geography at UQAM 

Laurie Guimond is a professor in the geography department at UQAM where she conducts research on the dynamics of settlement, cohabitation and mobility in northern and rural areas. She teaches courses on indigenous territorialities and intercultural issues, contemporary mobility and migrations, as well as on the regional geography of Quebec and Canada. For the past twenty years, she has worked to promote the essential role of intercultural relations in order to better support inclusive territorial development in northern Quebec, where she regularly collaborates with Innu, Naskapi, North Shore and other nations for the development and realization of research projects, as well as for her teaching activities. She is also responsible for the Research Group on Migration, Mobility and Intercultural Cohabitation in the North, and Assistant Professor at the Nulungu Research Institute (The University of Notre Dame Australia, Broome Campus). She is also a regular member of the Center for Research on Social Innovations (CRISES) and is an associate member of the Center for Research in Territorial Development (CRDT).

Roche Yann

Professor – Department of Geography at UQAM

Yann Roche has been a professor in the geography department of UQAM since 1997. He specializes in South-East Asia and it is in the context of projects in the region that he began to specialize in ecotourism in Asia, especially in Vietnam and in Laos. He also works in the field of geopolitics, geographic information systems and cartography, with an emphasis on the impact of these two technologies on the tourism sector.

Sarrasin Bruno

Professor – Department of Urban and Tourism Studies at UQAM 

Doctor of political science, Bruno Sarrasin is full professor and director of the department of urban and tourism studies at the University of Quebec at Montreal. He directed the tourism and hotel management program and the tourism research journal Téoros and is responsible for the Tourism collection at the University of Quebec Press. Author of around fifty scientific and transfer publications, he has presented several conferences on the challenges of international tourism. His work focuses on the political economy of development; the political sociology of public policies, mainly in the field of environmental protection and socio-political analysis, forecasting and prospective of the tourist phenomenon.