Peterson Hall, room 318 3460 McTavish, Montréal (Québec) H3A 1X9 france-pascale.menard@mail.mcgill.ca (514) 398-2799 LANGUAGES Fluent written and spoken French and English; intermediate written and spoken Spanish. COMPUTER KNOWLEDGE Stata, SPSS, SAS, Microsoft Office. EDUCATION Ph.D. program, Sociology 2006- McGill University, Montréal (Québec) Specialization in the labor market and sociology of the family Thesis: The effect of family transformations associated with the decline of family size and marital instability on family networks at retirement age. Supervision: Dr. Céline Le Bourdais Graduate classes in sociology 2005-2006 University of Wisconsin, Madison (Wisconsin) Prerequisite courses to the admission to Ph.D. program in sociology M.A., Economics 2002-2004 University of Montréal, Montréal (Québec) Specialization in Economics of Development and International Economics Master s dissertation question: Does the GDP per capita of Latin American countries converge with their business partners or their financial partners? Supervision: Dr. Leonard Dudley and Dr. Rui Castro B.A., Economics 1999-2002 Laval University, Québec City (Québec) University Exchange Program 2001 University of Alberta, Edmonton (Alberta) TRAINING Training sessions in statistical methods 2007-2009 Event-history analysis, panel data analysis, multi-level analysis, evaluation of public policies and the use of bootstrap weights for variance estimates of a statistic Québec Inter-University Centre for Social Statistics (QICSS), Montréal (Québec)
EMPLOYMENT Research assistant 2007-2010 Research project: Statistics Canada. Canadian Household Panel Survey family component, Principal investigator: Céline Le Bourdais. Collaborators: Benoît Laplante and Solène Lardoux. 2007-2008. Supervision: Dr. Céline Le Bourdais Evaluation of the pilot data on the measures of parental leave Literature review on measures of parental leave Comparison of national household panel surveys Literature review on intergenerational exchanges Formulation of survey questions on intergenerational exchanges Administrative support Assistant for graduate course Informing Social Policy with Canadian Data 2009-2010 Department of Sociology, McGill University, Montréal (Québec) Grading assignments Answering student questions Research assistant 2008 - Supervision: Dr. Maurice Pinard Editing for book publication Administrative support Economic analyst 2008-2009 Marcil, Plante & associés, Montréal (Québec) Economic studies of Quebec s sectoral profiles Teaching assistant for Sociological Perspectives, the Sociology introduction course 2006 Department of Sociology, McGill University, Montréal (Québec) Grading papers and exams Economic analyst 2004-2005 E&B Data (Economic and Business Data), Montréal (Québec) Creation of data sets on research centers and businesses Economic analyses and studies Teaching assistant for the Microeconomics introduction course 2003 Department of Economics, University of Montréal, Montréal (Québec) Grading exams Teaching assistant 2000-2002 Microeconomics introduction course and Macroeconomics introduction course Department of Economics, Laval University, Québec City (Québec) Grading exams 2
French as a second language assistant 2001 French Immersion School J.H. Picard, Edmonton (Alberta) Educational activities to support the teaching of French as a second language Research and analysis assistant 2001 Inter-provincial exchange program for university students Federal-Provincial Relations Section, Ministry of Finance of Ontario, Toronto (Ontario) Collaboration to the documents for the Federal-Provincial-Territorial Meeting of Ministers of Finance and 42 nd Annual Conference of Provincial Premiers VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE Volunteer to the Marche 2/3 2008-2009 Club 2/3 and Oxfam Québec, Montréal (Québec) Collaboration to the organization and supervision of children during the walk Sociology graduate student representative 2006-2008 Graduate committee Post-graduate Student s Society (PGSS) Introduction to international cooperation 2003-2004 International Cooperation Governmental Program Québec without Frontiers of the Ministry of International Relations of Québec Club 2/3 (Montréal NGO) in collaboration with the Group for Population Studies and Education (GEEP, Senegalese NGO), Thiadiaye, Senegal Collaboration to the Family Life Education (FLE) program Organization of educational activities in elementary and middle schools Vice-president of External Affairs 2000-2001 Economics Undergraduate Students Association (APEL), Laval University, Québec City (Québec) Student representative to the Social Sciences Student s Association (AESS) and to the Undergraduate Student s Association (CADEUL) Weekly journal of APEL Organization of the socioculturual and athletic activities of APEL Collaboration to the management of the Student s Cafe Ceteris Paribouffe AWARDS AND HONORS Doctoral research scholarship (declined the first year) 2009-2011 Fonds québécois de la recherche sur la société et la culture Government of Québec Doctoral research scholarship 2009-2010 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Government of Canada Graduate Student Travel Award 2010-2011 Faculty of Arts, McGill University, Montréal (Québec) 3
Student Travel Grant 2010 Population Change and Lifecourse Strategic Knowledge cluster University of Western Ontario, London (Ontario) Grant matching program 2009 QICSS, Montréal (Québec) Research scholarship 2007-2009 Research Chair of Canada in Social Statistics and family change Scholarship of excellence upon acceptance to the Ph.D. program 2006 Scholarships and Student Aid Office, McGill University, Montréal (Québec) PRESENTATIONS, PUBLICATIONS AND OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS Presentations: Ménard, F.P, 2010. «Les réseaux familiaux des Canadiens âgés de demain : essai de typologie en fonction de leurs parcours familiaux», International association of French-Speaking Demographers (AIDELF) 16th General Conference, Geneva (Switzerland). Ménard, F.P, 2010. «Les parcours familiaux des Canadiens âgés d aujourd hui et de demain : Aperçu des changements démographiques des quarante dernières années», International Council for Canadian Studies (ICCS) Biennial Conference, Montréal (Québec). Peer-reviewed journal articles: Ménard, F.P. In press. The Dissolution of the first union in Canada. McGill Sociological Review Journal. Working papers: Ménard, F.P, C. Le Bourdais and D. Hamplova. Les parcours familiaux des Canadiens âgés d aujourd hui et de demain : Aperçu des changements démographiques des quarante dernières années. Research Reports: Ménard, F.P., C. Le Bourdais and D. Hamplova, 2010. Evaluation of the measures of parental leave in the pilot data of the Living in Canada Survey (LCS), Final report submitted to Statistics Canada as part of the elaboration of the Canadian Household Panel Survey (CHPS), March, 36 p. Le Bourdais, C., D. Hamplova and F.P. Ménard, 2009. Evaluation of the Measure of Parental Leave in CHPS Pilot Data, Document submitted to Statistics Canada as part of the elaboration of the Canadian Household Panel Survey (CHPS), March, 3 p. Le Bourdais, C., B. Laplante, S. Lardoux, D. Hamplova and F.P. Ménard, 2008. Comments on the Canadian Household Panel Draft Version 2.6, Document submitted to Statistics Canada as part of the elaboration of CHPS, March, 14 p. 4
Belleau, H., J. Charbonneau, D. Hamplova, É. Lapierre-Adamcyk, B. Laplante, S. Lardoux, C. Le Bourdais, F.P. Ménard and M. St-Amour, 2007. Family Changes and Exchanges over the Life Course - Rationale and Design of a Detailed Content in the CHPS, Document submitted to Statistics Canada as part of the elaboration of CHPS, November, 59 p. Other contributions: TELUS Business Solutions. Canada in an Economic Turmoil: Telus Risks and Opportunities - Quebec s sectoral profiles. Supervision: Ianik Marcil, Ph.D., Marcil, Plante & associés, 2008-2009. Conseil économique du Haut-Richelieu. Ground Transportation Technology fact sheet ; Agri-food Processing fact sheet ; Defense fact sheet. Supervision: Jean Matuszewski, president of E/B Data and Ianik Marcil, Ph.D., senior economist at E/B Data, 2004-2005. Conseil économique du Haut-Richelieu. Ground Transportation Technology fact sheet ; Agri-food Processing fact sheet ; Defense fact sheet. Supervision: Jean Matuszewski, president of E/B Data and Ianik Marcil, Ph.D., senior economist at E/B Data, 2004-2005. Industry Canada. Liste des centres de recherche en science et technologie au Québec. Supervision: Jean Matuszewski, president of E/B Data and Ianik Marcil, Ph.D., senior economist at E/B Data, 2005. Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Ontario. Ontario Biomedical Industry Mapping and Benchmarking 2005 Profile. Supervision: Jean Matuszewski, president of E/B Data and Ianik Marcil, Ph.D., senior economist at E/B Data, 2005. NanoQuébec. Profil des Nanotechnologies au Québec. Supervision: Jean Matuszewski, president of E/B Data and Ianik Marcil, Ph.D., senior economist at E/B Data, 2004-2005. Pôle Québec Chaudière-Appalaches. Indicateurs économiques de la Zone Québec Chaudière- Appalaches. Supervision: Jean Matuszewski, president of E/B Data and Ianik Marcil, Ph.D., senior economist at E/B Data, 2004. 5