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Leslie Chan
Senior Lecturer

Contact Information:
Phone: 416-287-7511
Office: MW304
Email: chan@utsc.utoronto.ca
Department: New Media Studies and IDS

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Research Interests & Work in Progress

  • Evolutionary thinking and knowledge classification
  • Digital representations of knowledge
  • Enabling community building with ICT

Teaching Interests & Responsibilities

  • Project Management II
  • Media and Development

Affiliations

  • Associate Director, Bioline International
  • Member of Executive committee, Project Open Source/Open Access
  • 2005-2010 Advisory Board Member, Canadian Research Knowledge Network

Awards & Grants

  • 2009 Scholarly Output in the Digital Age. Jackman Humanities Working Group Grant. With France Garrett $5,000
  • 2008-9 Bioline International development grant. Open Society Institute Information Program $10, 000 USD
  • Open Access Scholarly Information Source Book (OASIS) Practical Steps for Implementing Open Access. Grant from the Open Society Institute Information Program. With Alma Swan, Key Perspective. $62, 000 USD

Publications

  • "Open Access: a giant leap towards bridging health inequities" with Subbiah Arunachalam and Barbara Kirsop. Bulletin of the World Health organization 2009; 87:631-635

    http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/87/8/09-064659/en/index.html

  • "The chain of communication in health science: from researcher to health worker through open access" with Subbiah Arunachalam and Barbara Kirsop. Open Medicine. 2009; 3(3): 111-119 http://www.openmedicine.ca/article/view/298/245
  • "Open Access: Promises and Challenges of Scholarship in the Digital Age" Academic Matters, The Journal of Higher Education. Web only http://www.academicmatters.ca/AcademicMatters_printable_article.aspx?catalog_item_id=2477
  • "Innovative in the Creative and knowledge Industries: Not an Open or Closed Case" Compendium of Research Papers: The International Forum on the Creative Economy. Conference Board of Canada (2008)
  • "Open Scholarship: Authority, Community and sustainability in the Age of Web 2.0". Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Electronic Publishing. Editor, with Susanna Mornati. 2008

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