Naomi Nichols

My research program consists of three integrated streams of research-to-action. The first two streams focus on youth, specifically youth inequality, poverty and homelessness. The research brings into view the social, institutional and policy systems that produce conditions of inequity in the public sphere. This work includes an investigation of Canada’s move to embrace data-led governance in its efforts to resolve an emerging youth homelessness crisis. My third stream of research investigates and seeks to transform the capacity of Canada’s non-profit social innovation sector to engage in effective research and development activities in support of equitable social transformation.