Valere Gaspard
Research Team
Political Studies
University of Ottawa
Valere Gaspard is a PhD Candidate in Political Studies at the University of Ottawa. He holds a Research Fellow position at Western University and Trent University鈥檚 Leadership and Democracy Lab and is a recipient of a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council CGS Doctoral Award (2023-2026).
His research focuses on Canadian politics, satisfaction with democracy, electoral management bodies, electoral integrity, voting, political institutions, and politicians. He is interested in better understanding how politicians and citizens think about democracy and elections, and how political institutions impact these views.
Valere has experience in both academia and the practice of politics. He is an alumnus of Canada鈥檚 Parliamentary Internship Programme (PIP) and has several years of experience working on Elections Canada鈥檚 Media Relations and Issues Management Team, as well as its Environmental Monitoring Centre. His work and research are therefore informed by both practical experience and theoretical considerations.
He holds a Master of Arts from the University of Ottawa (2021-2022) and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Western Ontario (2016-2020). Valere is currently a co-instructor for the Undergraduate Partnered Research Programme, a year-long internship that is sponsored by Queen鈥檚 University Institute for Intergovernmental Relations.
His academic publications, policy outlets and newspaper publications, as well as his media interviews, can be viewed on
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