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Urbanization, gender and the global south: A transformative knowledge network

Principal Investigator: Linda Peake. Funding: SSHRC Partnership Grant. Term: 2017-2023. Situated within the dynamic early 21st century context of urbanization, this GenUrb project conducts research and engages in public education and policy enrichment in seven strategically chosen cities (Cairo, Cochabamba, Georgetown (Guyana), Ibadan, Mumbai, Ramallah, and Shanghai) in lower-middle-income countries to advance understanding of how the […]

Probing Private Refugee Resettlement in Canada

Principal Investigator: Jennifer Hyndman Funding: SSHRC Insight Grant. Term: 2017-2022. The overall aim of the project is to produce and share new knowledge about private refugee sponsorship in Canada. Since March 2016, and at the September 2016 UN Summit in New York City on refugees and migrants, the federal government has committed to ‘exporting’ its […]

To stay or not to stay: The geographies of immigrant integration, transnationalism, and return migration intentions among African immigrants in Canada

Principal Investigator: Joseph Mensah Funding: SSHRC. Term: 2017-2022. The study examines the return intentions of African immigrants in Canada, drawing on the experiences of Ghanaians and Somalis in Toronto and Vancouver.  More pointedly, the project seeks to understand the intersections of African immigrants’ integration, transnationalism, and return intentions, and to predict the background and spatio-temporal […]

Enacting Sex Ed Updates: A view from Ontario's Teachers

Principal Investigator: Sarah Flicker. Funding: SSHRC Insight Development Grant. Term: 2018-2022. The project focuses on what people can learn from the perspective of teachers about the implementation and enactment of a controversial updated health curriculum in Canada's largest province. The interdisciplinary team brings together researchers with backgrounds and expertise in environmental studies, education, public health, […]

StudentMoveTO: From Insight to Action on Transportation for Post-secondary Students in the GTHA

Co-Principal Investigator: Roger Keil Funding: SSHRC Term: 2017-2021 The StudentMoveTO is a research and partnership project based at Ryerson University focusing on an improved understanding of the travel behaviour of 600,000 post-secondary students in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA) in Ontario, Canada. The project explores transportation patterns of post-secondary students, and the potential […]

Migration and Resilience in Urban Canada

Principal Investigator: Valerie Preston. Collaborator: Lucia Lo. Funding: SSHRC Partnership Grant. Term: 2016-2022. Established in 2016, Building Migrant Resilience in Cities (BMRC-IRMU) is a research partnership and a multi-sector collaboration. It draws on over 20 years of experience in bringing together a range of key actors working on issues of immigration and settlement through CERIS, a leading Ontario […]

Animal governance in Botswana and Canada

Principal Investigator: Alice Hovorka. Funding: SSHRC Insight Grant. Term: 2016-2025. How do we think about animals? Where do we put them and where do they belong? How do we interact with them and are these human-animal relations good, bad, otherwise? How might we understand the lives of animals in terms of their circumstances and experiences, […]

An Interdisciplinary Approach to Native Pollinator Conservation in Southern Ontario: A Case Study from Norfolk County

Principal Investigator: Sheila Colla. Funding: W. Garfield Weston Foundation. Term: 2016-2022. Interviews and farm tours were done with conservation program Alternative Land Use Services (ALUS) participants. These interviews took place in Norfolk County, Ontario where previous work showed bee richness to be positively impacted on the land of ALUS farmers when compared to non-ALUS sites. […]

Neoliberal industrialization, the rural periphery, and uneven development in India

Principal Investigator: Raju Das. Funding: SSHRC Insight Grant. Term: 2016-2025. Geographically uneven development (GUD) is an enduring problem worldwide. Its urgency is more apparent in the context of the recent phase of industrialization occurring in the South since the onset of the neoliberal form of capitalism. This industrialization, which takes different forms, including transplantation of […]

Understanding differential vulnerabilities to environmental stressors among native North American bumblebee species

Principal Investigator: Sheila Colla. Funding: NSERC Discovery Grant. Term: 2017-2026. The savethebumbblebees lab is com prised of members from both the Department of Biology and the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change. As a lab, the project team is interested in all aspects of native pollinator conservation. Research is interdisciplinary, including ecology, conservation biology, policy […]