News

 Congratulations to GoHelp PhD students, Emily Shantz and Samantha Leger, who were recently awarded SSHRC Doctoral Fellowships! Well done!

Congratulations MA Student, Lindsey Soon, who was recently the 2021 recipient of Ontario Professional Planners Institute's (OPPI) Gerald Carrothers Graduate Scholarship. Great work!

We are pleased to share a list of new publications from GoHelP! The following publications can also be found on our Recent publications page.

Here is the list:

Dr. Susan Elliott has won the 2020 Melinda S. Meade Distinguished Scholorship Award in Health and Medical Geography! This top honour awarded by the American Association of Geographers formally recognizes Susan’s research excellence and contributions to the field of health geography. Big congratulations to Susan!

GoHelp Alumna Samantha Biglieri has recently had an article published in the Journal of the American Planning Association.

Biglieri, S. (2021). The Right to (Re)Shape the City. Journal of the American Planning Association. doi: 10.1080/01944363.2020.1852100

Eunice’s paper ‘Geospatial Analysis of Cholera Patterns in Nigeria: findings from a cross-sectional study’ has been accepted for publication in BMC Infectious Diseases! Big congratulations to Eunice!

The first issue of Wellbeing, Space and Society is now published! Big congratulations to the founder and Co-Editor in Chief Susan Elliott and Dr. Jamie Pearce from the University of Edinburgh.

Susan Elliott and alumni Joesph Kangmennaang (UNC Charlotte) work, ‘We are drinking diseases’: Water insecurity and emotional distress in urban slums, has been featured in Issue 9/ Fall 20220 of Water Reseearch.

You can read the article here.

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