The Office of Dean offers academic, administrative and community leadership in our Faculty, within York University and with various external stakeholders. Individual undergraduate and graduate programs within the Faculty are led by directors or coordinators. Deans & Associate Deans Alice Hovorka Dean Carlota McAllister Associate Dean (Research, Graduate and Global Affairs) Gregory W Thiemann Associate […]
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Explore our labs and facilities on the Keele Campus. These spaces are available to all students, professors, researchers and community members. Room Bookings Most of the classrooms and all computer labs in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change are equipped with presentation technology. York University Information Technology Classroom Operations provides the equipment and support for these […]
Dean Alice Hovorka As a community of students, faculty, staff, alumni and collaborators, we are united in a call to action responding to some of the most pressing challenges facing people and the planet. Welcome to York University’s new Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change! As a community of students, faculty, staff, alumni and collaborators, […]
How can sex, relationships, and health education pedagogies meaningfully address the role new media plays in young people’s relational lives? How can these pedagogies also take an intersectional and holistic lens to young people’s seemingly individual experiences of sex, gender, relationality, and violence? These are the research questions that have guided Dr. Alanna Goldstein’s work […]
How is the Covid-19 pandemic impacting the everyday lives of the urban poor along gendered and racial lines? As part of her latest research, Nasya Razavi, Post-doctoral Visitor at the City Institute at York University, is examining how women are navigating the changing dimensions of production and social reproduction in the “pandemic city.” The Covid-19 […]
by DT Cochrane When I began my post-doctoral work with Professor Kean Birch, I was excited to engage with the faculty and students of the Faculty of Environmental & Urban Change. With an academic background in economics, and a PhD from York’s Graduate Program in Social & Political Thought, I thought I had much both […]
The mud at the bottom of a lake isn’t just mud, it contains within it clues that, once decoded, tell us how the environment has changed over time. Clues can be anything that sinks to the bottom of the lake and is deposited into the mud. Often, this includes things that were living (and died) […]
What is the link between the immigration status of workers, the workplace conditions meat packers face and their experience of the COVID-19 pandemic? Why do meatpacking plants hire temporary foreign workers, recent immigrants, and former refugees as employees? What policy changes are needed to improve workplace safety of temporary foreign workers and newcomers? These are […]