Dr. Tammy Findlay

Professor

Ph.D. – York University (political science)
M.A. –York University (political science)
B.A. – Huron University, Western (political science)

Tammy Findlay grew up in London, Ontario. She came to Halifax from Vancouver, British Columbia, where she did a post-doctoral fellowship in the College for Interdisciplinary Studies’ Human Early Learning Partnership at UBC. Before joining the faculty at the Mount, Dr. Findlay taught at York University, Trent University, and the University of Western Ontario in political science, women’s studies, social science and Canadian studies. She has also worked as a policy researcher for a national social policy organization.

Dr. Findlay teaches the Canadian Studies, Political Studies Public Policy Studies and Women’s Studies. Professor Findlay’s research interests are in the areas of Canadian politics, gender and politics, gender and public policy, intersectionality, social policy, child care, community engagement, multilevel governance, and women’s representation. Dr. Findlay values interdisciplinary and community-based research that fosters social change, and has been involved in a variety of university and community service.  She is Past-President of the Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women (CRIAW), a Research Associate with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Nova Scotia, and an Affiliate with the Institute for Intersectionality Research and Policy at Simon Fraser University.

She is currently working on several projects:

1)      Feminist Governance in Canada and Mexico

2)      Intersectionality and Public Policy

3)      Shared Rule in Federations

 

Dr. Findlay has two books. Jacquetta Newman, Linda White, and Tammy Findlay. Women, Politics and Public Policy: The Political Struggles of Canadian Women, 3rd Ed., Oxford University Press   https://global.oup.com/academic/product/women-politics-and-public-policy-9780199025527?type=listing&lang=en&cc=in

 

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Dr. Findlay’s other book, Femocratic Administration: Gender, Governance and Democracy in Ontario, 2015, is available from the University of Toronto Press: https://utppublishing.com/doi/book/10.3138/9781442648968

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Other Selected Publications:

Julianne M. Acker-Verney, Alana Cattapan, Alexandra Dobrowolsky, Tammy Findlay, and April Mandrona. “Feministing Public Engagement? The Opportunities and Constraints of Efforts to Conduct Research from the ‘Ground up’.” In Feministing in Political Science. Alana Cattapan, Ethel Tungohan, Nisha Nath, Fiona MacDonald and Stephanie Paterson, eds. University of Alberta Press, 2024.

Tammy Findlay, “Federalism for the 21st Century: Feminism and Multilevel Governance in Canada,” In Feminism’s Fight: Challenging Politics and Policies in Canada since 1970, B. Cameron and M. Luxton, eds. UBC Press, 2023.

Alexandra Dobrowolsky and Tammy Findlay. “Feminist Governance in North America: Manifestations, Manipulations and Mirages.” In Handbook of Feminist Governance, M. Sawer, L.A. Banaszak, J. True, J. Kantola, eds. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023.

Alexandra Dobrowolsky, Tammy Findlay, Julianne Acker-Verney, Alana Cattapan, Jennifer O’Keefe, April Mandrona, and Jewell Carroll, Reimagining Policy Spaces: Toward Accessible and Inclusive Public Engagement,” Canadian Review of Social Policy. 82 (2022).

Tammy Findlay. “Intersectionalities of Opportunism: Justin Trudeau and the Politics of ‘Diversity’” International Journal of Canadian Studies. 60 (March 2022). pp. 40–59.

Tammy Findlay. “Caregiving Beyond the Crisis,” Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, April 27, 2020.

Tammy Findlay, Christine Saulnier and Alec Stratford. Are You with Us? COVID-19 Confirms the Need to Transform Nova Scotia’s Social Safety Net. CCPA-NS, May 21, 2020.  https://www.policyalternatives.ca/sites/default/files/uploads/publications/Nova%20Scotia%20Office/2020/05/Are%20you%20with%20us.pdf

Tammy Findlay, Christine Saulnier, Michelle Hébert Boyd and Jennifer O’Keefe. Creating the Future we all Deserve: A Social Policy Framework for Nova Scotia. Halifax: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Nova Scotia (CCPA-NS). March 2020.  https://www.policyalternatives.ca/sites/default/files/uploads/publications/2020/03/SPF%20Final.pdf

Tammy Findlay. “Public Administration and Government Services: Gendering Policymaking in Canada,” In The Palgrave Handbook of Gender, Sexuality, and Canadian Politics, Manon Tremblay and Joanna Everitt, eds. 2020. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature, 2020. pp. 207-229.

Alana Cattapan, Alexandra Dobrowolsky, Tammy Findlay and April Mandrona. “Power, Privilege, and Policymaking: Reflections on “Changing Public Engagement from the Ground Up.” Creating Spaces of Engagement: Policy Justice and the Practical Craft of Deliberative Democracy, Leah R.E. Levac and Sarah Marie Wiebe, ed., University of Toronto Press, 2020. pp. 226-252.

Alana Cattapan, Julianne M. Acker-Verney, Alexandra Dobrowolsky, Tammy Findlay, and April Mandrona. “Community Engagement in a Time of Confinement.” Canadian Public Policy. 46 no. S3 (October 2020). pp. 287-299.

Tammy Findlay, Michelle Cohen and Mary-Dan Johnston. “Community-Based Intersectionality: The Changing Public Services Project.” Engaged Scholar. 5 no. 3 (Fall 2019). pp. 1-20.

Tammy Findlay. “Revisiting GBA/GBA+: Innovations and Interventions.” Canadian Public Administration. 62 no. 3 (Sept. 2019).

Tammy Findlay. “Feminist Community-Based Research in Public Policy.” Politics, Groups, and Identities. Special Issue on Socially Engaged Research in Political Science. (June 2019).

Tammy Findlay. “Gendering State: Women and Public Policy in Ontario.” In Divided Province: Ontario Politics in the Age of Neoliberalism. Greg Albo and Bryan M. Evans, eds. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2018. pp. 212-246.

Rachel Robinson, Tammy Findlay, and Geoffrey Woolcock. “Helping Communities Improve Child Development Outcomes: The Importance of Governance in the Kids in Communities Study (KiCS).” Australasian Journal of Early Childhood. (Sept. 2018).

Tammy Findlay. “Femocratic Administration and the Politics of Transformation.” In From the Streets to the State: Changing the World by Taking Power. Paul Gray, Ed. SUNY Press, 2018.

Tammy Findlay. “Gendering Canadian Public Administration.” In Handbook of Canadian Public Administration, 3rd Edition. Christopher Dunn, Ed. Oxford University Press, 2018.

Tammy Findlay and Deborah Stienstra. “Intersectionality in Austere Times: Boundary-Crossing Conversations.” Atlantis. 38 no. 1 (June 2017). pp. 150-153.  https://atlantisjournal.ca/index.php/atlantis/article/view/5393/150-153%20PDF

Tammy Findlay. “Nurturing Social Movement Intersectionality: Childcare Advocacy in Canada.” In Caring for Children: Social Movements and Public Policy in Canada. Rachel Langford, Susan Prentice and Patrizia Albanese, Eds. Vancouver, UBC Press, 2017. pp. 208-231.

Tammy Findlay and Mary-Dan Johnston. “Who Does What in Public Services?” Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women. August 31, 2017.   https://www.criaw-icref.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Public-Services-%E2%80%93-Who-Does-What.pdf

Tammy Findlay and Charlotte Kiddell. “Ten Reasons Why Universality is Important in Public Services.” Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women. March 20, 2017.   https://www.criaw-icref.ca/images/userfiles/files/UniversalityFINAL.pdf

Tammy Findlay, “Child Care and the Harper Agenda: Transforming Canada’s Social Policy Regime,” Canadian Review of Social Policy. 71 no. 1. (Spring 2015). pp. 1-20.

Tammy Findlay with Stella Lord. “A New Economy Needs Child Care.” Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Nova Scotia. April 2015.   https://www.policyalternatives.ca/sites/default/files/uploads/publications/Nova%20Scotia%20Office/2015/04/New_Economy_Needs_Childcare.pdf

Tammy Findlay. “Social Capital and Local Governance Regimes: Early Childhood Development Roundtables in British Columbia.” The Innovation Journal. 19 no. 1. (2014).

Tammy Findlay. “Femocratic Childcare.” In The New Politics of Critical Social Work. Mel Gray, and Stephen A. Webb, Eds., Palgrave, 2013. pp. 174-194.

Tammy Findlay. “Democratizing Intergovernmental Accountability Regimes: Community Engagement and Public Reporting in Early Learning and Child Care in Canada.” In Overpromising and Underperforming? Understanding and Evaluating New Intergovernmental Accountability Regimes. Peter Graefe, Julie Simmons, and Linda White, Eds. University of Toronto Press, 2013. pp. 75-101.

Tammy Findlay and Lynell Anderson. “Does Public Reporting Measure Up? Federalism, Accountability and Child Care Policy in Canada.” Canadian Public Administration. 53 no. 3. (September 2010). pp. 417 – 438.

Lynell Anderson and Tammy Findlay. Making the Connections: Using Public Reporting to Track the Progress on Child Care Services in Canada. Child Care Advocacy Association of Canada (CCAAC). October 2007. Access at: https://ccaacacpsge.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/mtc_finalreport_en1.pdf

Tammy Findlay. “Getting Our Act Together: Gender, Globalization, and the State.” Socialism and Democracy. 18 no. 1 (January-June 2004). pp. 43-83.

Kimberly Earles and Tammy Findlay. Renewing Democracy: Rethinking Representation in Canada. Law Commission of Canada. July 2003.

Tammy Findlay. “Resisting ‘Tongue-Twister’ Language: In Search of a Practical Feminism.” In Community and the World: Participating in Social Change. Torry D. Dickinson, Ed. New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2003. pp. 129-138.

 

SDGs for Tammy Findlay: Gender Equality; reduced inequalities