PhD Student Directory
Andie Albert
Research Interests / Specializations: Turtle and Water Relations within Indigenous Communities with Southwestern Ontario (Dakin/ Moser)
Vanessa Ambtman-Smith
Research Interests / Specializations: Indigenous traditional healing spaces within hospital contexts: Examining relationships to health, healing and reconciliation (Richmond)
Zhamak (Minoo) Assari
Research Interests / Specializations: Human-nature relationship- urban design- human behavior in urban areas- cycling behavior and its correlation with built and natural environment- Landscape design- Green infrastructure (Hunsberger)
Evans Batung
Research Interests / Specializations: Understanding the Challenges and Resilience among Visible Minority Essential Workers in Ontario, Canada (Luginaah/ Arku)
Emily Beacock
Research Interests / Specializations: Southern Inuit determinants of health as defined by communities (Lewis/ Richmond)
Richard (Richie) Bloomfield
Research Interests / Specializations: Political economy of agro-food systems. Examining current farmland policy, ownership dynamics, and alternative land-use models to support next or first-generation farmers in Ontario (Weis)
Olivia Caruso
Research Interests / Specializations: Health Geography, Food Access and Urban Food Environments, and Youth Healing and Wellbeing (Gilliland)
Joshua Grignon
Research Interests / Specializations: Healthy Cities, Urban Planning, Public Health, Recreation and Leisure, Knowledge Translation and Mobilization, Technical Writing (Gilliland)
Hui (Hailyee) Ha
Research Interests / Specializations: The spatiotemporal analysis of human movement; the study of urban and neighborhood changes (Long)
Huiyan He
Research Interests / Specializations: Digital geographies, platforms and digitally-mediated ruralities in China (Leszczynski)
Oluwaseyi Ishola
Research Interests / Specializations: Gender, environment and food insecurity in Northern Nigeria (Luginaah)
Mohan Joshi
Research Interests / Specializations: Advancing ecosystem models for enhancing forest management practices (MacBean/ Voogt)
Asma Khanani
Research Interests / Specializations: Health geography, place-making, decolonizing approaches, therapeutic landscapes, material culture (Richmond/ Baruah)
Kiaunna Lee
Research Interests / Specializations: Habitat selection, predator-prey dynamics, and dietary analysis of coyotes at Long Point National Wildlife Area (Long)
Shawna Lewkowitz
Research Interests / Specializations: Gender, urban studies, participatory research and community based learning (Gilliland)
Kamaldeen Mohammed
Research Interests / Specializations: Participatory community mapping of forest ecosystem services, carbon stock and food security in Africa (Luginaah/ Wang)
Alexander Morgenthaler
Research Interests / Specializations: Urban Studies, Urban Geography (Gilliland)
Inonge Mutale
Research Interests / Specializations: Where are the benefits and social amenities? Reappraising Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Africa’s Mining Sector (Hunsberger)
Kevin Ng
Research Interests / Specializations: Lake ecosystem response to climate change and nutrient enrichment (Moser)
Desmond Oklikah
Research Interests / Specializations: The (un)changing housing experiences and dynamics of (Live-in) Caregivers in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), Canada. (Arku/ Abada)
Reforce Okwei
Research Interests / Specializations: Impact of climate change on vulnerable slum communities (Arku)
Luis Patricio
Research Interests / Specializations: Transport Justice, Urban Planning, Public Spaces, Sustainable Mobility, Environmental Stewardship (Tchoukaleyska/ Gilliland)
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)
Cornelius Pienaah
Research Interests / Specializations: Nature-Based Solutions for Improving Women's Livelihood and Climate Change Resilience in semi-arid Northern Ghana. (Luginaah)
Catherine Reining
Research Interests / Specializations: Applied conservation research in protected and conserved areas for health and well-being, examining barriers and enablers to access (Gilliland)
Mohammad Rokhafrouz
Research Interests / Specializations: Multi-scale methane emission monitoring using remote sensing (Wang/ Voogt)
Sulemana Saaka
Research Interests / Specializations: Evaluating culturally appropriate, cost-effective and sustainable models of stigma reduction programs for racialized and newcomer communities living with and affected by HIV in London, Ontario (Luginaah)
Bo Shan
Research Interests / Specializations: Understanding spatial variations in soil and crops using Precision Agriculture (Wang)
Manuel Spiller
Research Interests / Specializations: Political Ecology. Assessing Nature Conservation practices and governance through a Social Science lens for policy, planning, and outreach (Tchoukaleyska)
Zakara Stampp
Research Interests / Specializations: Identifying and addressing the needs of Black youth in Southwestern Ontario; ensuring their needs are met and developing targeted interventions to ensure they are uplifted and supported by their community (Luginaah)
Jesse Sutton
Research Interests / Specializations: Economic resilience of regions to shocks in an increasingly globalized world (Arku)
