Josée Guignard Noël joined the team in May 2007. She holds a master’s degree in Environmental Studies from the Université de Moncton. Her thesis examined the role of the social networks of Francophone migrants from northern New Brunswick on the ethnolinguistic vitality of the Moncton–Dieppe urban area. She also completed a Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in Geography and a minor in History.

She has collaborated on a number of research projects, notably on migration trends in official-language minority communities (OLMCs), on different methods of counting official-language minority populations, on Francophone immigration in the Atlantic region, and on the scope of the youth network in the Canadian Francophonie and the professional lives of French-speaking youth outside Quebec.

In recent years, she has specialized in the analysis of Statistics Canada census data. For example, she has produced statistical portraits of the children of rights-holders, of Francophone women in New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, and the profiles of certain Francophone minority communities in Atlantic and Western Canada.

She also works with various law firms, as well as school boards, districts and divisions to obtain data on the children of rights-holders or children eligible for minority official language education across Canada.

Her analyses provide a better understanding of the sociolinguistic dynamics of linguistic minorities in Canada’s minority communities.