Milad Moghaddas is a Ph.D. student in an Organizational Behaviour and Human Resources Management at the Joseph L. Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. Broadly stated, his research interests include understanding how organizations and leaders can (1) foster psychologically safe workplaces that empower employees to speak up; and (2) make work more flexible to improve harmony between employees’ work and personal lives, prevent employee burnout, and improve employee well-being. Milad's academic and leadership contributions have been recognized through multiple scholarships and awards. During his Bachelor of Commerce, he received nine different distinctions, including the Joey and Toby Tanenbaum Award of Distinction for Excellence, the HSBC Bank Canada Business Award (twice), and the Joey and Toby Tanenbaum Business Scholarship. While completing his Master of Industrial Relations and Human Resources, he was awarded the Frank Reid Prize for achieving the highest graduating CGPA, the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce Scholarships in Youth Employment (twice), and the Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources Entrance Scholarship. He also received the SSHRC Canada Graduate Master’s Scholarship (CGS-M). More recently, Milad was honoured with the Vivienne Poy Chancellor’s Fellowship in the Humanities and Social Sciences — awarded to only one graduate student across the entire Faculty of Arts and Science — as well as the SSHRC Canada Graduate Doctoral Scholarship (CGS-D). He was also most recently selected as one of 31 finalists — out of nearly 700 applicants globally — for the 2025 Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Doctoral Scholarship competition.
Extreme weather in Canada has become both an environmental challenge and an information crisis. As record-breaking wildfires, floods, and heatwaves sweep across the country, Canadians are confronted with accelerating climate impacts and a parallel surge in misinformation and greenwashing that obscures the causes of these events, distorts policy debates, and weakens democratic cohesion. In recent Read More…
Democracies survive on the ability of people to disagree without destroying the social fabric that binds them. However, in an era marked by rising mis- and disinformation, our collective capacity to navigate disagreement is deteriorating. While polarization is often viewed as a problem of belief, the deeper issue is that disinformation is changing the very Read More…
The COVID-19 global pandemic was both a public-health crisis and a catalyst for an infodemic: the flood of misinformation and disinformation that spread as rapidly, if not more rapidly, than the virus itself. A systematic review by the World Health Organization (WHO) found that this infodemic undermined compliance with health measures, fragmented social cohesion, and Read More…
Many young Canadians today are encountering political narratives when scrolling through social media without ever opening a news site or turning on the television. These platforms, while sources of entertainment, are shaping how youth view politics, international institutions, and Canada’s role in the world. According to Statistics Canada, social media is the most common outlet Read More…
