PhD Student Directory
![Vanessa Ambtman-Smith Vanessa Ambtman-Smith](../../img/grad/Ambtman_Smith_Vanessa.png)
Vanessa Ambtman-Smith
Research Interests / Specializations: Indigenous traditional healing spaces within hospital contexts: Examining relationships to health, healing and reconciliation (Richmond)
![Daniel Amoak Daniel Amoak](../../img/grad/Amoak_Dan.jpg)
Daniel Amoak
Research Interests / Specializations: Seed Security for Enhancing Food Security, Climate Change Resilience and Mental Health in Malawi (Luginaah)
![Zhamak (Minoo) Assari Zhamak (Minoo) Assari](../../img/grad/assari_zhamak.png)
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)
Elmond Bandauko
Research Interests / Specializations: Right to the city? Urban governance and the spatial politics of street traders in Harare, Zimbabwe (Arku)
![Evans Batung Evans Batung](../../img/grad/Batung_Evan.jpg)
Evans Batung
Research Interests / Specializations: Understanding the Challenges and Resilience among Visible Minority Essential Workers in Ontario, Canada (Luginaah/ Arku)
![Emily Beacock Emily Beacock](../../img/grad/Beacock_Emily.jpg)
Emily Beacock
Research Interests / Specializations: Southern Inuit determinants of health as defined by communities (Lewis/ Richmond)
![Richard (Richie) Bloomfield Richard (Richie) Bloomfield](../../img/grad/bloomfield_richie.jpg)
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 Olivia Caruso](../../img/photo_not_available.jpg)
Olivia Caruso
Research Interests / Specializations: Health Geography, Food Access and Urban Food Environments, and Youth Healing and Wellbeing (Gilliland)
![Nafiseh Ghasemian Sorboni Nafiseh Ghasemian Sorboni](../../img/photo_not_available.jpg)
Nafiseh Ghasemian Sorboni
Research Interests / Specializations: Target detection/ Change detection/ Data fusion (Wang/ Najafi)
![Joshua Grignon Joshua Grignon](../../img/grad/grignon_josh.jpg)
Joshua Grignon
Research Interests / Specializations: Healthy Cities, Urban Planning, Public Health, Recreation and Leisure, Knowledge Translation and Mobilization, Technical Writing (Gilliland)
![Hui (Hailyee) Ha Hui (Hailyee) Ha](../../img/grad/ha_hailyee.jpg)
Hui (Hailyee) Ha
Research Interests / Specializations: The spatiotemporal analysis of human movement; the study of urban and neighborhood changes (Long)
![Huiyan He Huiyan He](../../img/photo_not_available.jpg)
Huiyan He
Research Interests / Specializations: Digital geographies, platforms and digitally-mediated ruralities in China (Leszczynski)
![Oluwaseyi Ishola Oluwaseyi Ishola](../../img/photo_not_available.jpg)
Oluwaseyi Ishola
Research Interests / Specializations: Gender, environment and food insecurity in Northern Nigeria (Luginaah)
![Mohan Joshi Mohan Joshi](../../img/grad/joshi_mohan.png)
Mohan Joshi
Research Interests / Specializations: Advancing ecosystem models for enhancing forest management practices (MacBean)
![Asma Khanani Asma Khanani](../../img/photo_not_available.jpg)
Asma Khanani
Research Interests / Specializations: Health geography, place-making, decolonizing approaches, therapeutic landscapes, material culture (Richmond/ Baruah)
![Senanu Kutor Senanu Kutor](../../img/photo_not_available.jpg)
Senanu Kutor
Research Interests / Specializations: Migration, subjective wellbeing, and empowerment: A comparative study between internal and international Ghanaian women left behind (Arku)
![Shawna Lewkowitz Shawna Lewkowitz](../../img/photo_not_available.jpg)
Shawna Lewkowitz
Research Interests / Specializations: Gender, urban studies, participatory research and community based learning (Gilliland)
![Milad Malekzadeh Milad Malekzadeh](../../img/grad/malekzadeh_milad.jpg)
Milad Malekzadeh
Research Interests / Specializations: Computational Movement Analysis/ Urban Analysis/ Transportation (Long)
![Lara Middleton Lara Middleton](../../img/grad/middleton_lara.jpg)
Lara Middleton
Research Interests / Specializations: Braided river dynamics (Ashmore)
![Kamaldeen Mohammed Kamaldeen Mohammed](../../img/photo_not_available.jpg)
Kamaldeen Mohammed
Research Interests / Specializations: Participatory community mapping of forest ecosystem services, carbon stock and food security in Africa (Luginaah/ Wang)
![Alexander Morgenthaler Alexander Morgenthaler](../../img/grad/morgenthaler_alexander21.jpg)
Alexander Morgenthaler
Research Interests / Specializations: Urban Studies, Urban Geography (Gilliland)
![Ebenezer Narh Ebenezer Narh](../../img/photo_not_available.jpg)
Ebenezer Narh
Research Interests / Specializations: Higher education student migration in Canada (Buzzelli)
![Kevin Ng Kevin Ng](../../img/grad/ng_kevin.jpg)
Kevin Ng
Research Interests / Specializations: Lake ecosystem response to climate change and nutrient enrichment (Moser)
![Desmond Oklikah Desmond Oklikah](../../img/grad/oklikah_desmond.jpg)
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 Reforce Okwei](../../img/grad/okwei_reforce.jpg)
Reforce Okwei
Research Interests / Specializations: Impact of climate change on vulnerable slum communities (Arku)
![Heather Peacock Heather Peacock](../../img/photo_not_available.jpg)
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 Cornelius Pienaah](../../img/grad/pienaah_cornelius.jpg)
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 Catherine Reining](../../img/grad/reining_catherine.png)
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)
![Sulemana Saaka Sulemana Saaka](../../img/photo_not_available.jpg)
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 Bo Shan](../../img/photo_not_available.jpg)
Bo Shan
Research Interests / Specializations: Understanding spatial variations in soil and crops using Precision Agriculture (Wang)
![Manuel Spiller Manuel Spiller](../../img/grad/spiller_manuel.jpg)
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 Zakara Stampp](../../img/grad/stampp_zakara.png)
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 Jesse Sutton](../../img/grad/sutton_jesse.png)
Jesse Sutton
Research Interests / Specializations: Economic resilience of regions to shocks in an increasingly globalized world (Arku)
![Alexander (AJ) Wray Alexander (AJ) Wray](../../img/grad/Wray_AJ.png)
Alexander (AJ) Wray
Research Interests / Specializations: Investigating the wellbeing impacts of parks and recreational experiences in Canada (Gilliland)
![Xin Zhou Xin Zhou](../../img/photo_not_available.jpg)
Xin Zhou
Research Interests / Specializations: Application of radar information extraction in agriculture (Wang)