University of Guelph-Humber

Alice-Simone Balter has been an instructor in both the Family and Community Social Services and Early Childhood Studies programs at the University of Guelph-Humber since 2012. Balter is currently a PhD student at the University of Toronto, in the Developmental Psychology and Education program at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, where she is engaged in exploring emotional regulation. She has an interest in child and adolescent health and well-being, sexuality, and mental health. Balter has been leading research projects with successful grants from the University of Guelph-Humber, including: “Early Childhood Educators' perceptions of the development of sexuality and gender in childhood” (2014); “How teachers (K-12) maintain positive mental health” (2015); and, “Community collaboration to evaluate Toronto Public Health’s Raising Sexually Healthy Children for Early Child Care Providers.”

Dr. Gordon Bannerman has been an instructor in the Business program at the University of Guelph-Humber since 2017. Dr. Bannerman has taught British history at the London School of Economics (LSE), Dundee University, and King’s College London. He previously worked as a research assistant at LSE, a committee reporter at the UK Parliament, and research officer for The Letters of Richard Cobden project at the University of East Anglia. In the latter role, he is a named contributor to the four published volumes arising from the project. Dr. Bannerman has an extensive publication record of books, articles, and reviews, including the monograph “Merchants and the Military in Eighteenth-Century Britain” (2008). Dr. Bannerman is also a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.