Jennifer Dean, PhD, RPP, MCIP

• Place effects on health and wellbeing

• Planning for immigrant settlement and integration

• Active, sustainable and equitable transportation for health and well-being

• Planning education, ethics and professional responsibility

• Qualitative, mixed-methods, and community-engaged research

• PhD, Geography, McMaster University, 2012

• MA, Geography, University of Toronto, 2007

• BA (Hons), Geography & History, University of Toronto Mississauga, 2006

• Outstanding Performance Awards, Faculty of Environment, University of Waterloo, 2023

• Plan ON Innovative Research Award, Ontario Professional Planners Institute (with Dr. S. Biglieri, Toronto Metropolitan University), 2023

• Outstanding Performance Awards, Faculty of Environment, University of Waterloo, 2020

• Canadian Institute of Planners

• Ontario Professional Planners Institute

• Canadian Association of Geographers

• PLAN 103 - Planning, Administration, and Finance
  • Taught in 2025
• PLAN 233 - People and Plans
  • Taught in 2021, 2022
• PLAN 246 - Tools for Public Participation
  • Taught in 2025
• PLAN 346 - Advanced Tools for Planning: Public Participation and Mediation
  • Taught in 2025
• PLAN 443 - Planning for Ethno-Cultural Diversity and Difference
  • Taught in 2025
• PLAN 471 - Planning Law
  • Taught in 2023, 2025, 2026
• PLAN 474 - Special Topics in Planning
  • Taught in 2022, 2023

* Only courses taught in the past 5 years are displayed.

• Dean, J., Stenberg, K., Wilson, K., Rishworth, A., Edge, S., & Ghassemi, E. (2026). Attracting and Retaining Immigrants Outside of Gateway Cities: The Importance of Economic Opportunities and Amenities in the Smaller Communities of Ontario, Canada. Journal of International Migration and Integration, 1-23.

• Leger, S., & Dean, J. (2025). Automobility, velomobility, and complete streets? Discursively analyzing the politics of complete street design guidelines in Ontario, Canada. Mobilities, 1-18.

• Linovski, O., Dean, J., Leger, S., McLaren, A., & Cascante, I. (2025). Transportation barriers and equity: Values and experiences of elected officials. Journal of Urban Affairs, 1-21.

• Dean, J., & Edge, S. (2024). Migration and wellbeing in and of place. Wellbeing, Space and Society, 6, 100199.

• Biglieri, S., & Dean, J. (2024). Fostering mobility for people living with dementia in suburban neighborhoods through land use, urban design and wayfinding. Journal of planning education and research, 44(3), 1704-1718.

• Leger, S., Collins, P., Dean, J., & Thompson, C. (2023). " Nothing in my years of community organizing has affected me as deeply as this closure did” A critical exploration of the socio-spatial consequences of public-school closures in Ontario, Canada. Canadian Planning and Policy, 2023, 38-61.

• Rishworth, A., Niraula, A., Dean, J., Wilson, K., Ghassemi, E., & Baldo, A. (2023). Rural futures? Mapping newcomers' hopes about potential resettlement in Canadian rural areas. The Canadian Geographer/Le Géographe canadien, 67(2), 253-271.

• Buttazzoni, A., Dean, J., & Minaker, L. (2022). Urban design and adolescent mental health: A qualitative examination of adolescent emotional responses to pedestrian-and transit-oriented design and cognitive architecture concepts. Health & place, 76, 102825.

• Dean, J., Biglieri, S., Drescher, M., Garnett, A., Glover, T., & Casello, J. (2020). Thinking relationally about built environments and walkability: A study of adult walking behavior in Waterloo, Ontario. Health & Place, 64, 102352.

• Edge, S., Goodfield, J., & Dean, J. (2020). Shifting gears on sustainable transport transitions: Stakeholder perspectives on e-bikes in Toronto, Canada. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 36, 197-208.