University of Guelph-Humber

Gavan Howe has taught at the University of Guelph-Humber since 2015. Howe focuses on the lived experience Media Studies learners will embrace as they move from media scholar to media/marketing practitioner. Howe’s research specialty is risk, specifically occupational risk bearing, a condition where highly trained subject matter experts are placed at risk of harm due to circumstances beyond their control. Howe has spoken in Canada and US on his research on risk mitigation has been widely published in: IEEE Journal, VocEd.edu.au, ESAsafe.com, Daily Commercial News, Distributor Magazine, Building Strategies, The Dialogue (OEL), Electrical Business Journal, Journal of Commerce, and the London Free Press. Howe will defend his doctoral dissertation on occupational risk bearing in June 2020.