Jean-Marc Fontan

Jean-Marc Fontan

Researcher and Co-director of PhiLab
Université du Québec à Montréal

Co-director of PhiLab, with Peter Elson of Victoria University, from the SSHRC partnership grants obtained for 2013-2017 and 2018-2024. As co-directors, we oversee the implementation and coordination of research and knowledge valuation activities included in the research programs led in partnership with and financially supported by the SSHRC and the project’s partners. I am also director of the Research chair on methodology and epistemology of partnership-based research and a regular member of the Social innovation research center. Finally, I co-direct, with Isabel Heck (Parole d’excluEs) the university incubator eponymous to this organization (IUPE).

Awards and distinctions

  • Prix du Bison doré de l’Ordre du Manitoba, 1985
  • SSHRC Partnership Development Grant 2014-2016
  • SSHRC Partnership Grant 2018-2024