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.