Laura Lam

Laura Lam is a PhD student at the Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources at the University of Toronto where she holds a SSHRC J.A. Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship and she is a 2022-2023 R.F. Harney Graduate Research Fellow. She is a researcher at the Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) program in Migration and Integration and her research interest is at the nexus of migration, precarious employment and gender, with a focus on the use of app-based digital labour platforms. She has previously worked in a marketing capacity with various startups and technology accelerators, and currently co-owns an employment-based social enterprise based in Vancouver, The Good Chocolatier.

Publications

• Banerjee, R., Lam, L (2024). Paths to Permanence: Permit Categories and Earnings Trajectories of Workers in Canada's International Mobility Program. Canadian Public Policy
• Lam, L (2022). Healthcare Gig Platforms Help Migrant Workers Survive – but at What Cost? OpenDemocracy.
• Lam, Laura , Triandafyllidou, Anna (2022). Road to Nowhere or to Somewhere: Migrants Pathways to Platform Work in Canada. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space.
• Lam, L., Ravanera, C, & Kaplan, S (2022). Care Work in the Recovery Economy: Towards a Caring Economy. Institute for Gender and the Economy.
• Lam, L., & Triandafyllidou, A. (2021). Migrants, Platform Work and Resilience. World Bank Blog.
• Lam, L., & Phung, K. (2021). How Should Canada Design Policies to Protect Gig Workers? Policy Options Digital Magazine.
• Lam, Laura , Triandafyllidou, Anna (2021). An unlikely stepping stone? Exploring how platform work shapes newcomer migrant integration. Transitions: Journal of Transient Migration
• Lam, L. (2021). Navigating Precarity in Non-standard Work. Public Policy Forum.
• Triandafyllidou, A., and Lam, L. (2021). British Uber Driver Win is Promising, but Gig Workers Still Need Basic Rights. The Conversation.
• Lam, L., & Seidel, M. D. L. (2020). Hypergrowth Exit Mindset: Destroying Societal Wellbeing through Venture Capital Biased Social Construction of Value. Journal of Management Inquiry, 1056492620929085.
• Lam, L., & Seidel, M. D. L. (2020). COVID-19 is an opportunity to challenge problematic VC culture. LSE Business Review.