Laura Lam is a research affiliate at CERC Migration and Integration and a PhD student at the Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources at the University of Toronto where she currently holds a SSHRC J.A. Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship. Her research interest is at the nexus of migration, precarious employment and gender, with a focus on the use of app-based digital labour platforms. She completed her Master of Arts in Immigration and Settlement Studies at 成人大片 and obtained her Bachelor of Commerce from the University of British Columbia with a specialization in marketing and sustainability.
She has worked as a research assistant at 成人大片 on studying non-standard and precarious work. In addition, she has conducted and published research on venture capital funding鈥檚 impact on societal well being and collaborated with researchers on a qualitative ethnographic project on understanding employment trajectories of migrant women entrepreneurs.
Laura has previously worked in a marketing capacity with various startups and technology accelerators, and currently co-owns an employment-based social enterprise, The Good Chocolatier. She also serves as a volunteer business coach with the Women Business Accelerator at ACCESS Community Capital in Toronto and active in advocacy work with anti-human trafficking initiatives in Canada.
Recent Publications
Lam, L. & Triandafyllidou, A. (2021). . Transitions: Journal of Transient Migration, 5(1), 11鈥�29.
Triandafyllidou, A., & Lam, L. (2021, March 2). . The Conversation.
Lam, L. (2020). Platform Labor.
Lam, L., & Seidel, M. D. L. (2020). . Journal of Management Inquiry, 29(4), 471-474.
Lam, L., & Seidel, M. D. L. (2020). . LSE Business Review.