Dean's Highlights

Alison Bain’s SSHRC funded project, Queering Canadian Suburbs: LGBTQ2S place making outside of central cities, has two forthcoming articles selected for publication, one titled “Whither ‘queer’ suburbanisms? Beyond suburban heteronormativity and the hegemony of the queer urban” in the Progress in Human Geography and the second titled, “Placing LGBTQ+ urban activisms” in Urban Studies.

Kudos to Jenny Korosi for her recent NSERC Alliance Grant as co-applicant on “Discontinuous Permafrost Partnership". The grant is led by Laurier University and is a collaboration between researchers at Laurier U, York U, University of Waterloo, and University of Alberta, partners from the Government of the Northwest Territories, and First Nations in the Dehcho (Northwest Territories).

Congratulations to John Lau, Policy Research Analyst for Natural Resources Canada, MES’19, and a member of the social exergy + energy lab, is named one of the top 30 under 30 sustainability leaders by Corporate Knights
Gail Fraser provided a keynote “Offshore oil and seabird conservation lessons learned from the Canadian experience” to the Waterbird Society.
Kean Birch wrote “Ottawa’s post-hoc privacy plan still leaves the power with Big Tech” op-ed for the Globe and Mail.
Martha Stiegman’s latest co-directed film with Ange Loft “By These Presents: “Purchasing” Toronto”, was screened as part of the 45th edition of San Francisco’s American Indian Film Festival.
Raju Das wrote a new article “Four main components of Marxism” for Links: International Journal of Socialist Renewal

Alison Bain’s SSHRC funded project, Queering Canadian Suburbs: LGBTQ2S place making outside of central cities, has two forthcoming articles selected for publication, one titled “Whither ‘queer’ suburbanisms? Beyond suburban heteronormativity and the hegemony of the queer urban” in the Progress in Human Geography and the second titled, “Placing LGBTQ+ urban activisms” in Urban Studies.
Roger Keil provided two keynote addresses this past month, Beyond the Virus: Urban Research and Planning in Times of Risk and Uncertainty, UCTEA Chamber of City Planners in Turkey on November 3 and “After the pandemic is before the pandemic”: Urban research and planning in times of risk and uncertainty to the Hungarian Society for Urban Planning on November 17.
Steven Tufts pens an op-ed for the Toronto Star, “O’Toole is smart to align himself with unions”

Kudos to Jenny Korosi for her recent NSERC Alliance Grant as co-applicant on “Discontinuous Permafrost Partnership". The grant is led by Laurier University and is a collaboration between researchers at Laurier U, York U, University of Waterloo, and University of Alberta, partners from the Government of the Northwest Territories, and First Nations in the Dehcho (Northwest Territories).
MITACS Success! Congratulations to our faculty members and students on their recent MITACS research training awards:
- Aedan Alderson with Liette Gilbert - Advancing archival contributions of transnational research in Canada and Ireland.
- Chan Arun Pina with Alison Bain - Critical Geographies of Non-Normative Homes: Student Housing in Delhi and Mumbai, India.
- Corals Zheng with Luisa Sotomayor - Studentification of West Chinatown: A New Phase of Gentrification
Kudos to PhD in Geography Alum, Dr. Rae Rosenberg, who recently began a new job as a lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Edinburgh was awarded the 2020 Paul Simpson-Housley Award on behalf of the Graduate Program in Geography in the Faculty of Graduate Studies
EUC hosted a special Awards night celebrating Geography graduates and Award recipients. Watch the full event on YouTube now.

Congratulations to John Lau, Policy Research Analyst for Natural Resources Canada, MES’19, and a member of the social exergy + energy lab, is named one of the top 30 under 30 sustainability leaders by Corporate Knights
Lisa Myers shares her expertise on food insecurity and Indigenous communities, the Finding Flowers Project and the Inaugural EUC Speaker Series, Miijim: Food as Relations, in an interview with CTV News
Kudos to Corals Zheng, MES-Planning student, and Marie Sophia Angoh, MES Student, who were selected to participate in the first cohort of the Women4Climate Toronto (W4CTO) Mentorship Programme. The program, created in partnership with C40 Cities, will contribute to the development of the next generation of female climate leaders in Toronto.
Kudos to Christina Hoicka and Katarina Savic on receiving receiving a grant from Smart Prosperity Institute for their latest research project, which examine the role of Indigenous economic development corporations in renewable energy