From environmental justice to housing challenges, social entrepreneurship and food security, our researchers are looking at improving our cities.
Get to know their areas of expertise.
Advanceing six Sustainable Development Goals
Our researchers
Martine August
Department of Geography and Environmental Management (GEM)
- Planning and social justice
- Political economy of housing
- Gentrification, displacement, and neighbourhood change
- Urban redevelopment and the politics of social mix
- Inequality, poverty, urban marginality
- Community organizing, resistance, and the right to the city
- Financialization of housing and neighbourhoods
- Can also supervise graduate students in Geography and Environmental Management
Janice Barry
- Settler colonialism and contemporary planning practice
- Recognition of Indigenous rights in environmental, protected area and urban planning
- Treaty settlement lands, urban reserves and Indigenous-municipal planning relations
- Decolonization of planning practice and planning education
Marta Berbes
- Environmental justice
- Sustainable urban futures
- Resilience thinking and complexity
- Participatory action research and community-led research
- Human dimensions of environmental change
Brian Doucet
- Gentrification and neighbourhood change
- Urban inequalities
- Flagship developments and urban entrepreneurialism
- Grassroots movements and urban resistance
Daniel Cockayne
Geography and Environmental Management
- Cultural geography
- Economic geography
- Entrepreneurialism and startup economies
- Feminist geography, queer geography and sexuality
Mathieu Feagan
Department of Knowledge Integration
- Capacity-building for social transformation in the Anthropocene
- Urban resilience and sustainability transitions across North-South relations
- Emancipatory pedagogies
- Knowledge integration across different ways of knowing
Sean Geobey
School of Environment, Enterprise and Development
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Social entrepreneurship and social innovation
- Sustainable and innovative financing tools
- Alternative enterprise legal structures such as cooperatives and social enterprises
- Long-term participatory decision-making and design tools
Heather Hall
School of Environment, Enterprise and Development
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Innovation and entrepreneurship in rural and northern contexts
- Regional economic development planning, policy and practice
- Community readiness & community impacts related to natural resource development
- Planning in slow-growth and declining communities
- Can also supervise graduate students in Geography and Environmental Management
Markus Moos
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Generational change and youthification in cities
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Urban housing markets and affordability
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Suburban sustainability innovations
- Social justice and the economies of cities
Leia Minaker
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Food environment assessment
- Population and public health
- Population health intervention research
- Food access in cities and planning for healthy food access
- Social determinants of health
James Nugent
School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability
- Urban political ecology
- Social movements
- Labour geography & unions
- Economic restructuring
- Community benefits agreements
- Participatory, community-based research
- Community-engaged learning
Zhu (Joe) Qian
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Comparative urban planning and policy
- Land use planning and urban form
- Land use reform and policy in China
- Heritage conservation and planning in China
Mark Seasons
- Planning for slow growth, no growth or decline
- Policy and program evaluation
- Local economic development
- Planning for climate change
Nancy Worth
Geography and Environmental Management
- (Un)paid work and social reproduction (housing)
- Age and generations (millennials)
- Identities and inequality
- Social/spatial theory
- Feminist economic geography and social geography
Peter Crank
Geography and Environmental Management
- Urban climate
- Urban environmental health
- Extreme heat
- Biometeorology
- Can also supervise graduate students in the Faculty of Environment
Katherine Perrott
- Political economy of the built environment
- Planning policy and development processes
- Urban and suburban design