Team

Anne Robineau has been the Assistant Director of the Canadian Institute for Research on Linguistic Minorities since 2012. Researcher at the Institute since 2006, she has developed its expertise on public policies (federal and provincial) in the management of language issues and official languages. She is author of several scholarly articles, book chapters, and studies on the Canadian Francophonie and on Anglophones in Quebec.

She holds master's and doctoral degrees in sociology from the Université de Montréal and was a doctoral scholar at the New School for Social Research in the New School University in New York. She also graduated with a degree in sociology and anthropology from the Université François-Rabelais de Tours in France. Anne Robineau taught sociology and anthropology at the Université de Montréal, the Université de Saint-Boniface in Manitoba and at the Université de Moncton.

From 2010 to 2017, she was a member of the sectoral commission on Culture, communication and information of the Canadian Commission for UNESCO. Co-organizer of several conferences and workshops, she is also co-founder and co-director of the Langues officielles et sociétés series at the Presses de l’Université Laval. Much of her research focuses on arts and culture (artistic professions, audiences, cultural industries). She is currently conducting a project funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada on the creative economy of Quebec Anglophones, which explores new issues related to the digital mediation of culture in multilingual contexts.

Josée Guignard Noël joined to the team in May 2007. She holds a masters  in environment studies , supplemented by a baccalaureate in Arts with major in geography and minor in history, both from the Université de Moncton.

The subject of her thesis was the role of the social networks of the French-speaking northern New Brunswick migrants on the ethnolinguistic vitality of the urban territory of Moncton-Dieppe. She participates in numerous CIRLM projects, namely on migration and health among Francophones in a minority setting.

Azure earned a college diploma in Graphic Design in 1996.  She worked in Customer Service as well as in the field of publishing for several years before completing a course in Office Management –Bilingual in 2012 at the Collège communautaire du Nouveau-Brunswick de Dieppe.  She joined the Institute team in August of 2013.

Sylvain St-Onge obtained his doctorate in education at the Université de Moncton. His dissertation focuses on the influence of the media, as a source of vitality, on the language experiences and psycholinguistic development of New Brunswick francophone high school students. He holds a master's degree in orientation and a bachelor's degree in education from the Université de Moncton, as well as a bachelor's degree in geography with a specialization in land use planning and sustainable development from the Université du Québec à Rimouski. In 2015, he received a scholarship from the Baxter and Alma Ricard Foundation for his doctoral studies, a scholarship reserved for Francophone students living in a minority environment who have demonstrated their commitment to society, their leadership and their civic sense. He has been a lecturer at the Université de Moncton since 2016, teaching courses in education and quantitative and qualitative research.

Originally from New Brunswick and living in Prince Edward Island, Michel Bourque received a B.A. in Translation from the Université de Moncton. Before joining the public service, he worked in children’s literature, in both official languages. He was an Editor with Scholastic Canada, in Ontario and Quebec, and has written and translated children’s books, published notably with New Brunswick-based Bouton d’or Acadie. At the Canada Media Fund, he worked closely with producers from Francophone minority communities.

With the federal government, Michel Bourque worked in areas such as the promotion of official languages, policy development, research, strategic planning and program delivery. With Canadian Heritage, he worked in the Cultural Affairs Sector, notably the Francophone Secretariat, and represented the department on the committee of signatories of the collaboration agreement for the development of arts and culture in the Francophone minority communities of Canada. At the Canadian Embassy in France, he was Trade Commissioner, Arts and Cultural Industries, supporting initiatives such as those related to the Société Nationale de l'Acadie’s international strategy for the promotion of Acadian artists. At Veterans Affairs Canada, he managed initiatives commemorating important moments of the country’s history and was a member of the department’s advisory committee on official languages. With the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, he led files related to, among other things,community revitalization.

Tommy est diplômé de l'Université de Montréal au deuxième cycle en anthropologie. Son mémoire portait sur les représentations linguistiques du chiac et sa nomination vis-à-vis des autres variétés de français dans le sud-est du Nouveau-Brunswick. Il a participé à différents projets de recherche en anthropologie linguistique et sociale, il a entre autres contribué à un projet de revitalisation linguistique d'une langue autochtone en Argentine et un projet de recherche sur la religion dans le Caucase. Depuis 2019, il travaille comme assistant de recherche pour l'ICRML sur le projet concernant le Congrès mondial acadien.

Pascale received her Multidisciplinary Bachelor of Arts with minors in Political Science, Philosophy and Psychology in 2019 from Université de Moncton. She is currently a Juris Doctor graduate from the Université de Moncton Faculty of Law. Her dissertation will focus on the recognition of Université de Moncton, the only French-language university in the province, as a distinct educational institution under section 16.1 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. In addition to her academic background, she was involved with the Fédération des étudiantes et étudiants du Campus universitaire de Moncton as vice-president and president from 2018 to 2020. Her interests include the promotion and recognition of the rights of minority language communities.

Thomas is an undergraduate student at the Edmundston campus of the Université de Moncton. He is currently entering his fourth year of a multidisciplinary bachelor's degree with minors in history, sociology and political science. His work on the history of a shelter for women and their children who are victims of domestic violence, entitled C'est plus qu'un hébergement, c'est " une oasis de paix " : l'Escale MadaVic, 1988-2021, was awarded the prize for the best undergraduate work in Acadian studies by the Institut d'études acadiennes, as well as the David Alexander prize from the Atlantic region's history journal, Acadiensis. Thomas hopes to continue his studies next year, pursuing a Master's degree in History. Her areas of interest are feminist and gender theories, sexual violence, as well as the history of social movements and Acadia.