Professor Shields is also a member of the Yeates School of Graduate Studie s at Toronto Met. He has served on various advisory bodies including most recently for the Ontario Nonprofit Network (ONN). He holds/held research affiliations with the Centre for Governance Studies at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby the Centre for Voluntary Sector Studies, Faculty of Business, Toronto Metropolitan University the International Social Sciences Institute at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland and CERIS - The Ontario Metropolis Centre (Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Settlement) where he served as one of the Centre Directors from 2002 to 2008. He holds a number of student teaching awards, and has developed and delivered distance education courses and modules. He also holds a Bachelor of Arts (BA) and Master of Arts (MA) from the University of Windsor.ĭr Shields is a tenured Full Professor with over twenty five years of university teaching and research experience in the areas of public administration and public policy, Canadian politics, the political economy of labour market and welfare state restructuring, immigrant settlement and integration policy and practices, and nonprofit sector studies.

His doctoral dissertation is entitled British Columbia's New Reality: The Politics of Neo-Conservatism and Defensive Defiance. Shields received his PhD in Political Science from the University of British Columbia in 1989. John Shields joined the Department of Politics and Public Administration in September 1988, after teaching in the Department of Political Studies at the University of Saskatchewan.

A World of Joy by Christopher Shields