PhD Student Directory

Vanessa Ambtman-Smith
Research Interests / Specializations: Indigenous traditional healing spaces within hospital contexts: Examining relationships to health, healing and reconciliation (Richmond)

Daniel Amoak
Research Interests / Specializations: Political ecology, health geographies, transnationalism and disaster risk reduction, land use planning, environmental change (Luginaah)

Eunice Annan-Aggrey
Research Interests / Specializations: Overview of the development partner landscape in Ghana in relation to the SDGs (Arku)

Dominica Babicki
Research Interests / Specializations: Eco-districts and energy consumption (Baxter)
Elmond Bandauko
Research Interests / Specializations: Urban Governance and the Spatial Politics of Street Traders in African Cities (Arku)

Emily Beacock
Research Interests / Specializations: Southern Inuit determinants of health as defined by communities (Lewis/ Richmond)

Ashley Byrne
Research Interests / Specializations: All Hands at the Table: Exploring Rural and Urban Coastal Foodscapes in Newfoundland (Baxter)

Merlin Chatwin
Research Interests / Specializations: Context Matters: Examining the systems characteristics that limit or facilitate inclusive civic participation in local government (Arku)

Cortney Dakin
Research Interests / Specializations: Indigenous Energy Justice (Hunsberger)

Corey Dawson
Research Interests / Specializations: Evaluating Terrain Surface Complexity of Designed Rivers (Ashmore)

Braden Dyce
Research Interests / Specializations: Urban Studies, Economic Geography, and Sustainable Transportation (Gilliland)

Rebecca Ellis
Research Interests / Specializations: Pollinator People: Bees, weeds, and struggles for bee-friendly cities (Weis)

Haley Everitt
Research Interests / Specializations: Fundamentally changing the way Canadian youth think about waste (Gilliland)

Nafiseh Ghasemian Sorboni
Research Interests / Specializations: Target detection/ Change detection/ Data fusion (Wang/ Najafi)

Yongjun He
Research Interests / Specializations: Using the application of remote sensing in urban areas (Wang)

(Temitope) Oluwaseyi Ishola
Research Interests / Specializations: Gender, environment and food insecurity in Northern Nigeria (Luginaah)

Asma Khanani
Research Interests / Specializations: Healthy cities; communities, children and youth behaviours and mental health (Gilliland)

Daniel Kpienbaareh
Research Interests / Specializations: Using Remote Sensing and Public Participatory Geographic Information Systems to understand crop diversity and yield estimation for food security in Malawi (Luginaah/ Wang)

Senanu Kutor
Research Interests / Specializations: 1. International migration and Immigration policies (Arku)

Milad Malekzadeh
Research Interests / Specializations: Computational Movement Analysis/ Urban Analysis/ Transportation (Long)

Carelle Mang Benza
Research Interests / Specializations: Meeting energy needs in an energy scarce community (Baxter)

Lara Middleton
Research Interests / Specializations: Braided river dynamics (Ashmore)

Alexander Morgenthaler
Research Interests / Specializations: Urban Studies, Urban Geography (Gilliland)

Ebenezer Narh
Research Interests / Specializations: Higher education student migration in Canada (Buzzelli)

Kevin Ng
Research Interests / Specializations: Catchment scale mercury biogeochemistry in thawing permafrost landscapes in Northwest Territories, Canada (Moser)

Elana Nightingale
Research Interests / Specializations: Land-based learning in the Indigenous Context (Richmond)

Heather Peacock
Research Interests / Specializations: A global GIS analysis of primate diversity and biogeography: Assessing trends in habitat loss and extinction risk to inform primate conservation biology (Weis/ Colqhoun)

Rosalind Ragetlie
Research Interests / Specializations: The relationship between gender and experiences of food insecurity in rural Benin (Luginaah)

Bo Shan
Research Interests / Specializations: Understanding spatial variations in soil and crops using Precision Agriculture (Wang)

Seyed (Vali) Vakhshoori
Research Interests / Specializations: GIS, multi-criteria decision analysis, land use susceptibility evaluation and natural hazards (Malczewski)

Alexander (AJ) Wray
Research Interests / Specializations: Impacts of COVID-19 on the retail food industry (Gilliland)

Ismahan Yusuf
Research Interests / Specializations: Gentri-fried: A post-colonial analysis of the gentrification of Ottawa's "Heron-Gate" (Arku)