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ANNIS MAY TIMPSON
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Centre of Canadian Studies
University of Edinburgh
21 George Square
Edinburgh EH8 9LD
Email: DirectorofCanadianStudies@ed.ac.ukTelephone: +44 (0)131 650 4129
Fax: +44 (0)131 650 4130
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Annis May Timpson is internationally recognised as one of the United Kingdom's leading Canadian specialists.
Trained in Political Science and Social Policy, Dr. Timpson is a graduate of Bristol, Oxford and Toronto.
Annis May Timpson's current research focuses on Aboriginal governance and public policy development in Canada. Her research background includes prize-winning work on women and public policy in Canada and comparative work on public attitudes to civil and political liberties in Canada and the UK.
As Director of the Centre, Dr Timpson has active links with a wide range of Canadian specialists working in universities, government and the media across the UK and internationally.
Annis May Timpson has won a number of teaching prizes. She convenes Canadian Studies 1 and Comparative Political Protest, contributes to the MSc in Nationalism Studies and co-supervises undergraduate and graduate research.
Annis May Timpson is committed to interdisciplinary and cross-national research and welcomes inquiries from potential graduate students who wish to include research on Canada or the UK within their doctoral studies.
Publications
Driven Apart: Women's Employment Equality and Child Care in Canadian Public Policy/ (UBC Press, 2001), winner of the International Council for Canadian Studies, Pierre Savard Award and the Canadian Women's Studies Association Book Prize.
"Hey that's no way to say goodbye: Territorial officials' perspectives on the division of the Northwest Territories,"
/Canadian Public Administration/ 49, 1 (2006), 80-101.
"The Challenges of Intergovernmental Relations for Nunavut," in Canada - The State of the Federation, 2003: Reconfiguring Aboriginal-State Relations in Canada ed. Michael Murphy (McGill-Queens University Press, 2005), 207-35.
Political Culture in Contemporary Britain: People and Politicians, Principles and Practice (Clarendon Press, 1996) with William L Miller and Michael Lessnoff.
