Meaghan J. Girard

Research

Primary research area:

• The social and material impacts of emerging technologies on professional, managerial, and learning practices
• Digital transformation of organizations and ecosystems

• The role of moral values in understanding and measuring innovation
• Social support and peer mentorship in graduate studies

• Qualitative methods (organizational ethnographies, interviews, participant and nonparticipant observations)
• Longitudinal studies
• Practice and process approaches

Funding

Conseil de recherches en sciences sociales et humaines (CRHS). Bourse de doctorat. 2022-2025. Programming values into algorithms: How value interactions between people, organizations, and ecosystems shape technologies in the age of AI (108 000 $).

Publications

Girard, M. J., Fortin, E., & Robinson, M. (2025). Baseline: Tech bros tackle diversity in an AI coop. Ivey Publishing. 

Girard, M. J., & Turkina, E. (2024). The digital transformation of a business model: The impact of AI technologies on a professional services firm. International Journal of Case Studies in Management/Revue internationale de cas en gestion, 22(1).

Girard, M. J., & Turkina, E. (2024). The impact of institutional interactions on cluster response to innovation: The case of Montreal and neural machine translation. Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences/Revue Canadienne des Sciences de l'Administration, 41(2), 194-211.

Publications in preparation

Carichon, F., Rampa, R., Sharma, S., Girard, M. J., Farnadi, G. 2026. “IDEAFix: Evaluation Framework for Creative Defixation Prompting in LLMs.” Submitted to NeurIPS 2026. 

Girard, M. J. “Values as metaphor: A meta-theoretical framework of values in, as, and through organizing.” Preparation of final manuscript.

Girard, M. J. "From digital transformation to digital lock-in: How imagined affordances enact strategy over time." Preparation of final manuscript.

Girard, M. J., Pierce, A., Saooud, E., Zhu, X., and Rowell, J.-A.* “Solidary lab as pedagogical innovation.” Data analysis underway.

*Alphabetical order (equal contribution).

Teaching and pedagogical approaches

FTRA 398, Special Topics: Artificial intelligence, language, and society (Fall 2026)

Adopts a critical lens to emerging technologies and encourages experimentation with different high-tech and low-tech pedagogical approaches. No prerequisites.

FTRA 458-558-658, Pratique de la localisation

Adopts a strategy- and business-approach to localization to provide students with transferable skills to work in different capacities in the language industry via a semester-long experiential project involving real industry partner.

FTRA 316-536-636, Informatique et traduction

Adopts an approach that is at times critical, at times practical, to learn how to use different language technologies in a way that fosters critical thinking, professional accountability, and preparedness for the labour market.

FTRA 200, Méthodologies de la traduction

An introductory course on different translation methodologies, ranging from traditional approaches to those that leverage AI. Emphasis on digital literacy. No prerequisites, and open to non-French speakers.

Courses offered or designed in other institutions (2020 - 2024):

Organizational ethics in the digital age

Ethics, governance, and business law 

Artificial intelligence in multilingual communications

Machine translation and post-editing

Anticipating and managing disruption in the language industry