Dr. Martin Cooke

Professor

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Biography

Martin Cooke is a Professor and the Assistant Vice President of Leadership Strategic Initiatives at the University of Waterloo, jointly appointed to the Department of Sociology and Legal Studies and the School of Public Health Sciences. He specializes in demography and sociology, focusing on life courses, population changes, and social policy. His research encompasses family households, fertility processes, household formation and dissolution, population aging, migration, and social assistance policies. Dr. Cooke's work predominantly emphasizes Canadian demographics, with occasional comparative studies involving other countries. He is also involved in graduate supervision and is currently accepting graduate honors students. His teaching interests include the social determinants of health, demographic changes, and the sociology of aging, contributing significantly to health aging research and health policy systems.

Research Interests

Requirements for University of Waterloo

Master Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3
IELTS
Listening
Required:6.5
Reading
Required:6.5
Writing
Required:6.5
Speaking
Required:6.5
Overall
Required:7
TOEFL
Listening
Required:22
Reading
Required:22
Writing
Required:22
Speaking
Required:22
Total
Required:90
Prerequisites
Honours Bachelor's degree in Psychology or related field Strong background in Statistics
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Specialization Notes

Includes fields like Clinical, Cognitive, Developmental, and Industrial/Organizational Psychology.