LIMITING CHARTER RIGHTS: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS
In 2023, I was awarded a SSHRC Insight Grant to empirically evaluate the way in which the Supreme Court of Canada permits governments to limit Charter rights. Together with political scientists Geoffrey Sigalet and Brendan Dell, I am currently in the process of building a dataset of all Supreme Court of Canada decisions since 1982 that involves the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, as well as Aboriginal and Treaty Rights.

GOVERNANCE OF HEALTH AND MEDICINE
From 2007-2018, my main research agenda concerned assisted reproduction policy. My 2018 book, Assisted Reproduction in Canada: Framing, Federalism, and Failure, is a case study of the Canadian experience. It traces the development of Canadian assisted reproductive technology policy from the 1993 Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies to the Supreme Court of Canada’s 2010 decision that struck down much of Canada’s assisted reproduction policy.

From 2018-2021, I explored how naturopathic medicine is governed in the Canadian provinces. This project involved two main publications: an exploration of the way naturopathic medicine is constructed in the Canadian media, and a survey of regulated naturopathic doctors in Canada. I held a SSHRC Insight Development Grant for this project between 2018-2022.