Ana Oliveira

Ana is a PhD student at the Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources, and in the Harney Program's Graduate Specialization in Ethnic, Immigration and Pluralism Studies. She is a Research Assistant on the project, Building on what works: Leveraging and scaling successful strategies for employment integration.

Ana is interested in successful immigrant trajectories in Canada; in how Brazilian women looking for work in Toronto eventually become entrepreneurs and do business within ethnic networks; and in Non-Standard Employment Relations, and the intersection of work, migration, and gender.

She has a Bachelor's degree in Physics from the Federal University of Minas Gerais and a Master's degree in Economics from IBMEC Faculty of Economics and Finance. She studied Sustainable Energies at Politecnico di Torino and Logistics at COPPEAD Institute of Administration. She worked in Operations and Supply Chain Management for about 10 years, mostly as a New Product Development Project Manager.

Ana is a volunteer mentor for prospective graduate students through the Brazilian Students' Association (BRASA). In her free time, when she is not spending time with her family, she enjoys dancing, fencing, and aerial acrobatics.

Working Dissertation Title: Immigrant Workers: Trajectories, Agency and Perception Success
Dissertation Supervisor: Dr. Marieme Lo

Publications

• Oliveira, A.R. (2015). Uma análise com dados intradiários da validade da Put-Call Parity para opções sobre ações preferenciais da Petrobras durante o ano de 2014. (Master's Thesis)
• Oliveira, A.R. (2009) Estudo de Sistemas Granulares: empilhamento, avalanches, criticalidade e auto-organização. (Undergraduate thesis)

Teaching

Ana worked as a Lecturer in the HR Management program at Toronto based Georgian College (Georgian at ILAC) in 2024. She worked as a Course Instructor at the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science teaching People Management and Organizational Behaviour (JRE420) in 2023, taught short courses and MBA modules on Operations Management and Project Management at the Brazilian Institute of Capital Markets between 2016 and 2018, and taught elementary Physics and Fluid Dynamics to Engineering students at Centro Universitario Una in 2011. She has extensive experience as a Teaching Assistant at the University of Toronto, at Toronto Metropolitan University and at Western University.