Nazanin Ghanavizi
Toronto,ON
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
Work History
EA and Project Manager, Office of CHRO
Telus Communications
10.2012 - Current
- Acted as the primary point of contact between executives and internal/external stakeholders.
- Planned, designed, and scheduled phases for large projects.
- Monitored project performance to identify areas of improvement and make adjustments.
- Coordinated with cross-functional teams to resolve project issues and mitigate risks.
- Achieved project deadlines by coordinating with contractors to manage performance.
Teacher Assistant
York University
01.2011 - 01.2014
- Society and Culture (Social Science)
- Running Tutorials (Teaching main concepts in social theory, directing the students on their final research papers and supervise their essays and assignments, leading discussion groups in the class, responding to the students’ questions about the course material, grading their papers)
Research Assistant
York University
01.2011 - 01.2012
- Credit Unions and Issues of Social Justice)
- Research and Project Planning (A study on social performances of the credit unions in Toronto
- The research included survey design, designing required indicators for the analysis of the social performance, organization of 50 interviews, designing database on Microsoft Access for analyzing data, reporting the outcome of the research to the government of Ontario, presentation of different stages of the research to the board members of the credit unions)
Research Assistant
University of Toronto
01.2010 - 01.2012
- Public Diplomacy in Authoritarian regimes)
- Research (Analysis of Iran’s media policy
- A research on the ways in which Iranian regime uses audiovisual media and the Internet to promote its image and its capital of sympathy in the international arena
- Literature review, writing the research report paper for presentation at International Studies Association in San Diego)
- Book editing (Editing a book in the field of political science: Collective Diplomacy: A New Public Diplomacy Paradigm for The 21st Century
- Proof reading the text, translating material from French into English, updating data and charts in the text, conducting literature review and updating theories of public diplomacy, conducting research on Iran’s public diplomacy and media diplomacy)
Teacher Assistant
University of Sydney
01.2009 - 01.2010
- Sociology and Social Policy (Human Rights) (Teaching key elements of human rights, directing the students on their final research papers and supervise their essays and assignments, leading human rights workshops in the class, responding to the students’ questions about the course material, grading their papers)
Education
Ph.D. ABD - Social and Political Thought
York University
M.A - Political Science
University of Toronto
2011
M.A - Gender and Cultural Studies
The University of Sydney
2009
M.A - Sociology and Social Policy
The University of Sydney
2000
B.A. Honors - Business Administration
Tehran University of Industry
2000
Accomplishments
- Nazanin Ghanavizi, Arash Falasiri (2014)
- The Persian Blogosphere in Dissent’ in Social Media in Iran
- Edited by B
- Rahimi and D
- Faris
- New York: SUNY Press
- Nazanin Ghanavizi (2011)
- Inclusion and Protest: Role of New Media in improvement of Public Reasoning’ in Simon Cottle and Libby Lester (eds.)
- Transnational Protests and the Media
- New York: Peter Lang Publishers
- REFEREED JOURNAL:
- Nazanin Ghanavizi (2009)
- Self-expression and the exchange of ideas: Iranians, the Internet and blogging’, Antithesis(University of Melbourne), 19: 133-147
- ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRY:
- Nazanin Ghanavizi (2010)
- Social Networking in Iran”
- Forthcoming
- Sage
- Encyclopedia of Social Networks.
Affiliations
2010-2012 Member, Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Additional Information
- AWARDS and Recognitions , Ontario Graduate Scholarship: $15,000 (2013) 2002 Best Dissertation of the Year - University of Industry and Research in Tehran 1997 Full scholarship to University of Industry and Research
Timeline
EA and Project Manager, Office of CHRO
Telus Communications
10.2012 - Current
Teacher Assistant
York University
01.2011 - 01.2014
Research Assistant
York University
01.2011 - 01.2012
Research Assistant
University of Toronto
01.2010 - 01.2012
Teacher Assistant
University of Sydney
01.2009 - 01.2010
Ph.D. ABD - Social and Political Thought
York University
M.A - Political Science
University of Toronto
M.A - Gender and Cultural Studies
The University of Sydney
M.A - Sociology and Social Policy
The University of Sydney
B.A. Honors - Business Administration
Tehran University of Industry
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