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, […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Principal Investigator: Steven Tufts Funding: SSHRC. Term: 2016-2021. The research aims to provide an analysis of the rise of populism in the context of austerity politics in North America as well as the implications for labour movements in terms of engagement with forms of both left- and right-wing populism.
Principal Investigator: Abidin Kusno. Funding: SSHRC. Term: 2016-2021. The research builds on the insights of current scholarship from critical geography and anthropology of infrastructure to make sense of a social formation (such as Jakarta) in which environmental degradation, informality and lack of planning have led to both disaster and opportunities as well as modes of […]
Principal Investigator: Alison Bain. Funding: SSHRC Insight Grant. Term: 2016-2023. This research addresses key knowledge gaps regarding the lives, service needs, and place-making practices of suburban Canadian LGBTQ2S (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Queer, and Two-Spirit) populations. The dearth of attention to sexuality among suburban scholars and the limited investigation of the suburbs by geographers of […]
Principal Investigator: Philip Kelly. Funding: SSHRC Insight Grant. Term: 2015-2022. The research project is interested in transnational economic practices that fall outside either the mainstream economy of corporate trade and investment or the private flows of remittances between family members. The study seeks those linkages that depend on the social networks created by migration and […]
Principal Investigator: Ranu Basu Funding: SSHRC Insight Grant. Term: 2015-2023. The project traces the geopolitical impacts of forced displacement on cities and schools through questions of conflict and displacement in Havana, Toronto, and Kolkata. The research explores the interrelationship between the quality of state-based education, the subalterity of displacement, and the implications which these issues have […]
Project Investigator: Sarah Flicker. Partner: Native Youth Sexual Health Network (NYSHN). Funding: CIHR Operating Grant. Term: 2015-2022. The research aims to (1) Understand the landscape, feasibility and readiness of communities across Canada to incorporate HIV prevention content into diverse Indigenous gatherings; (2) Build the research and health promotion capacities of 9 Indigenous SHC youth leaders […]