Director
Dr. Hallström is the Director of the Prentice Institute for Global Population and Economy. His background is in political science and in addition to his directorship, he is also a faculty member of U of L's political science department.
Dr. Hallström was born in Edmonton but his family, due to his father's work in the oil industry, left Canada shortly after and he spent most of his childhood living in Europe and the United States before returning to Canada as a teen. After a year of university studies and playing rugby in the United Kingdom, Hallström obtained a BA with a major in political science at the University of Calgary in 1995 and completed an MA and PhD in political science at Indiana's Purdue University. He began his academic career at St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia as a professor of political science and Canada Research Chair in Public Policy and Governance. Dr. Hallström joined the University of Alberta in 2009 and was the first director of the Alberta Centre for Sustainable Rural Communities until December 2020.
Taking Notice to Take Action: Integrating Environment, Community, and Health
Hallstrom et al. 451pp. (2023)
Innovation vs inertia: Entrepreneurial governments in 21st-century rural Alberta
in the Canadian Geographer (January 2023)
w/E. Reid-Musson, E. Maceachen, & M. Beckie in Agriculture and Human Values (January 2022)
with G. Hvenegaard in Land (February 2021)
Policy Responses to Automation in Canada
with Stacey Haugen, Payton Grant et al. in the Journal of Rural and Community Development Vol. 16, No. 1 (Spring 2021)
Assessing Automation in Rural Communities: An Economic Impact Assessment
with Stacey Haugen, Payton Grant et al. in the Journal of Rural and Community Development Vol. 16, No. 2 (2021)
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