Dr. Monica Boyd

Monica Boyd, Professor of Sociology at Carleton University, is at the forefront of scholarly work that analyzes such demographic processes as rates of natural increase and decrease and migration. She traces their impacts on many features of Canadian society such as the labour force, family forms, age and gender patterns. She also contributes important data and analyses on social mobility and status attainment. Her publications on these and other topics are widely cited in the academic as well as in
the policy literature in Canada and internationally. Her research and other activities contribute to the setting of the research as well as the policy agenda.