Name
Dr. Annis May Timpson
Title
Director, Centre of Canadian Studies
Contact Details
Please address all queries to DirectorofCanadianStudies@ed.ac.uk +44 (0)131 650 4129.
Research Interests
- Aboriginality and Governance
- International Indigenous Politics
- Territorial politics and Intergovernmental relations
- Language and Cultural Policies
- Social movements and human rights
Bibliographic Statement
Annis May Timpson is internationally recognised as one of the United Kingdom's leading Canadian specialists.
Trained in Political Science and Social Policy, Dr. Timpson is a graduate of Bristol, Oxford and Toronto.
Annis May Timpson's current research focuses
on Aboriginal governance, cultural and language policies in Nunavut. Her research background
includes prize-winning work on women and
public policy in Canada and comparative
work on public attitudes to civil and political
liberties in Canada and the UK.
As director of the Centre, Dr Timpson has active links with a wide range of Canadian specialists
working in universities, government, museums and
the media around the UK, in Canada, and internationally.
Annis May Timpson has won a number of teaching prizes. She convenes Canadian Studies 1A, the Canadian Studies Open Research Seminars, and postgraduate programmes at the Centre.
Annis May Timpson is committed to interdisciplinary
and cross-national research and welcomes
inquiries from potential graduate students
who wish to include research on Canada
or the UK within their doctoral studies.
Key Publications
Aboriginal/Territorial governance
"Inuit Approaches to Public Governance, Public Administration and Public Policy in Nunavut." The Handbook of Canadian Public Administration, ed. Christopher P. Dunn, 350-363. Don Mills, ON: Oxford University Press, 2010.
First Nations, First Thoughts: The Impact of the Indigenous Thought in Canada, ed. Annis May Timpson. Vancouver: UBC Press 2009.
"Reconciling Indigenous and Settler Language Interests: Language Policy Initiatives in Nunavut." Journal of Canadian Studies, 43.2 (2009), 159-180.
"Stretching the Concept of Representative Bureaucracy: The Case of Nunavut." International Review of Administrative Sciences, 72, 4 (2006): 541-54.
"Hey that's no way to say goodbye: Territorial officials' perspectives on the division of the Northwest Territories."
Canadian Public Administration, 49 1 (2006): 80-101.
"The Challenges of Intergovernmental Relations for Nunavut" in Canada - The State of the Federation, 2003: Reconfiguring Aboriginal-State Relations in Canada ed. Michael Murphy, 207-35. Kingston: McGill-Queens University Press, 2005.
Gender Policy and Public Policy
Driven Apart: Women's Employment Equality and Child Care in Canadian Public Policy. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2001.
Winner of the International Council for Canadian Studies, Pierre Savard Award and the Canadian Women's Studies Association Book Prize (inaugural awards). Designated an Outstanding Academic Title by Choice.
Public Attitudes to Rights and Liberties
Political Culture in Contemporary Britain: People and Politicians, Principles and Practice. Co-authored with William L Miller and Michael Lessnoff. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996.
Current Research and Institutional Funding
SSHRC-funded Major Collaborative Research
Initiatives Program Indigenous Peoples
and Governance (2006-11)
Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada, Canadian Studies Development Program
Foundation for Canadian Studies in the UK, Canadian Studies Development Program
Courses
- Canadian Studies 1A
- International Indigenous Politics
Postgraduate Supervision
Completed PhDs
Performing Politics: Representation and Deliberation in the Public Sphere (Sarah Hill, 2011).
Current PhD Supervision
The Political Union Debate in Canada's Maritime Provinces, 1960-1980: Why did a Maritime Union not happen? (Luke Flanagan).
Québécois Bande Dessinée; a Quiet Revolution? (Harriet Kennedy)
Dynamic Exchanges: Objects and the Shared Histories of Northwest Coast Peoples and Scots (Kaitlin McCormick)
Language, Culture and Terrorism: Extreme Liberationists Movements in Quebec and Corsica (Megan Melanson)
Canadian National Identity and Wilderness in Ontario School Textbooks, 1870-1970 (Claire Smerdon).
Social Cohesion, Western Alienation and the "Tisdale Rape Case" (Kathleen Ward).
Parade of Nations: National and International Displays of Indigenous Art (Kelsey Wrightson).
Current MPhil Supervision
The Art of Resistance: Radical Contemporary Narrative in Urban Native Canadian and Northern Irish Republican Communities (Anna Stewart)
The Canadian Senate: A chamber of sober second thought or an upper house shaped by partisan politics during the first sixty years of confederation? (Joey Waitschat)
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