Telfer School of Management is pleased to announce that five new professorships and fellowships have been awarded as part of the school’s Fellowships, Professorships and Chairs program along with four renewed appointments.
“We are grateful to have a strong—and growing—contingent of world-class researchers,” says Stéphane Brutus, Dean of the Telfer School of Management. “Each fellowship, professorship and chair that we offer encourages incumbents to push ahead with critical work in their fields. Their contributions lead to new advancements and innovative thinking to make our communities more inclusive, greener, healthier, happier and wealthier.”
Fellowships, professorships and chairs form the base of the school’s robust research culture. These honours, many of which are generously supported by donors, enable faculty members to deliver practical insights on a range of topics in business and management research.
This year’s recipients are conducting leading studies on motivation in the workplace, financial inclusion, the relational dynamics of AI, healthcare optimization, data analytics in health systems, global financial practices, ethics and leadership, financial markets, and workplace wellbeing.
“We are proud of the cutting-edge research conducted by our professors,” says Silvia Bonaccio, Vice-Dean, Research, and Ian Telfer Professor of Workplace Psychology. “The work they do is agenda-setting for their respective disciplines and contributes to elevating Telfer’s international reputation.”
Congratulations to all 2025 recipients!
New awards
Lance Ferris – Telfer Research Professorship of Work Motivation
Professor Ferris’ research focuses on motivation in the workplace, including why employees are motivated to engage in good behaviours (e.g., helping others) and bad behaviours (e.g., being uncivil or abusive), as well as the effect of such behaviours on motivational processes. His work primarily focuses on self-enhancement, self-determination, and approach/avoidance motivation processes, particularly in the context of mistreatment at work.
Darlene Himick – Father Edgar Thivierge Professorship in Financial Inclusion
Professor Himick’s research explores how individuals and institutions make sense of money, risk, and responsibility through everyday financial practices, with a focus on financial literacy and pensions. Current projects include a student-led campus financial literacy initiative, research on the Financial Independence-Retire Early movement, and a study of online financial influencers. She aims to highlight the taken-for-granted narratives about financial responsibility, fostering more inclusive approaches to financial education and policy.
Mayur Joshi – Father Edgar Thivierge Fellowship in AI and Transformation of Work, Occupations, and Organizations
Professor Joshi’s research examines how emerging digital technologies shape and are shaped by fundamental practices, processes, and strategies of organizing. His recent work focuses on the relational dynamics of AI development and deployment in practice, featured in leading management journals and a research handbook on AI and decision-making (which he co-edited). His research aims to help professionals and organizations reinvent and reinvigorate their expertise in the era of AI.
Jonathan Patrick – Telfer Research Fellowship in Optimizing Healthcare Delivery
Professor Patrick’s research seeks to improve access to health services through the application of optimization techniques. Focusing primarily on scheduling and capacity planning, he has worked with numerous hospitals, long-term care homes, home care providers, and health authorities. The desire is to extend the type and complexity of the problems optimization techniques can solve and to improve patient access to limited resources.
Antoine Sauré – Telfer Research Fellowship in Healthcare Analytics
Professor Sauré specializes in advanced modelling and decision-making under uncertainty, particularly for large-scale service operations. His current work includes collaborations with multiple healthcare organizations in the region. His research, focusing on developing advanced analytics techniques for dynamic resource allocation and capacity planning problems, aims to improve timely access to quality care and enhance the efficiency of health systems.
Renewed awards
Shantanu Dutta – Ian Telfer Fellowship in Global Finance
Professor Dutta is pursuing research studies in the context of global financial markets and practices. In particular, his research focuses on global corporate governance practices, insider trading and private meetings between investors and management. His research outcome is likely to benefit investors, managers and policy-makers alike through a better understanding of global financial practices.
Daina Mazutis – Professorship on Ethics, Responsibility and Sustainability
Professor Mazutis' research examines how organizations and decision-makers can accelerate the transition to a more sustainable economy. Her current work explores sustainability in the construction and development sector, with a focus on how circularity and low-carbon strategies are interpreted and applied by industry and policy leaders. She is particularly interested in identifying strategic enablers, structural barriers, and practical levers for change within the built environment. Beyond her research, Professor Mazutis plays a leadership role in embedding sustainability at Telfer as co-Lead of the Centre for Sustainable Impact/pour l'Impact Durable (CSIID.org), member of the Sustainability Task Force and as the Director of the Green Academy at Telfer.
Fabio Moneta – RBC Financial Group Fellowship in Finance
Professor Moneta's research focuses on two main areas. The first concentrates on institutional investors, especially mutual funds, and studies their performance and trading behavior. The second research area is related to the study of the risk premium in different financial markets such as fixed income, foreign exchange, and commodity markets.
Jane O’Reilly – Ian Telfer Fellowship on Workplace Wellbeing
Professor O’Reilly’s research seeks to better understand the facilitators and barriers to promoting employee psychological, physical, and emotional well-being. She is particularly interested in how workplace relationships and social interactions influence well-being. Her current studies investigate social mistreatment as an impediment to workplace well-being, and the experiences of employees living with mental illness.
Learn more about Telfer’s Fellowships, Professorships and Chairs
