About the PERI Group
The Precarious Employment Research Initiative (PERI) is a collaborative project among many community partners interested in better understanding the employment and working conditions of workers in our community.
This project was initiated by Peterborough Public Health and expanded to include City of Peterborough, Peterborough and District Labour Council, Literacy Ontario Central South, Peterborough Workers’ Action Centre, Trent Community Research Centre, United Way of Peterborough, Workforce Development Board and Trent University psychology professor and researcher, Dr. Fergal O’Hagan with support from the Poverty and Employment Precarity in Southern Ontario(PEPSO) research project.
PERI Members:
Mike Gannon
Employment Services
City of Peterborough
Jason Dennison
Workforce & Labour Market Advisor
Fleming College
Sean Dooley
Labour Market Information Analyst
Workforce Development Board
Carrie Wakeford
Literacy Ontario Central South
Marion Burton
Peterborough and District Labour Council
Hallie Atter
Peterborough Public Health
Julianna Stonehouse
Career Space & Trent Community Research Centre
Trent University
Fergal O’Hagan
Psychology Professor and Researcher
Trent University
Stepanie Levesque
Labour Programs & Services Development Officer
United Way Peterborough & District
Michael Andrews
Academic Upgrading
Fleming College
Poverty and Employment Precarity in Southern Ontario (PEPSO)
Faculty of Social Sciences
McMaster University
For more information you can reach us through our contact page.