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: Seed Security for Enhancing Food Security, Climate Change Resilience and Mental Health in Malawi (Luginaah)
Eunice Annan-Aggrey
Research Interests / Specializations: Going local with global policies: Understanding the localization of the Sustainable Development Goals in Ghana (Arku)
Dominica Babicki
Research Interests / Specializations: Eco-districts and energy consumption (Baxter)
Elmond Bandauko
Research Interests / Specializations: Fieldwork experiences and emerging themes from a study with street traders in Harare, Zimbabwe (Arku)
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)
Olivia Caruso
Research Interests / Specializations: Health Geography, Food Access and Urban Food Environments, and Youth Healing and Wellbeing (Gilliland)
Cortney Dakin
Research Interests / Specializations: Indigenous Energy Justice (Hunsberger)
Corey Dawson
Research Interests / Specializations: Evaluating Terrain Surface Complexity of Designed Rivers (Ashmore)
Haley Everitt
Research Interests / Specializations: A direct measurement approach to understanding the relationships between household food wasting and pro-environmental knowledge, attitudes, and behaviours (Gilliland)
Nafiseh Ghasemian Sorboni
Research Interests / Specializations: Target detection/ Change detection/ Data fusion (Wang/ Najafi)
Huiyan He
Research Interests / Specializations: Digital geographies, platforms and digitally-mediated ruralities in China (Leszczynski)
Yongjun He
Research Interests / Specializations: Using the application of remote sensing in urban areas (Wang)
Oluwaseyi Ishola
Research Interests / Specializations: Gender, environment and food insecurity in Northern Nigeria (Luginaah)
Asma Khanani
Research Interests / Specializations: Migration, geographic displacement, pre- and post-displacement experiences (Baruah)
Senanu Kutor
Research Interests / Specializations: Migration, subjective wellbeing, and empowerment: A comparative study between internal and international Ghanaian women left behind (Arku)
Shawna Lewkowitz
Research Interests / Specializations: Gender, urban studies, participatory research and community based learning (Gilliland)
Milad Malekzadeh
Research Interests / Specializations: Computational Movement Analysis/ Urban Analysis/ Transportation (Long)
Lara Middleton
Research Interests / Specializations: Braided river dynamics (Ashmore)
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)
Ebenezer Narh
Research Interests / Specializations: Higher education student migration in Canada (Buzzelli)
Kevin Ng
Research Interests / Specializations: Lake ecosystem response to climate change and nutrient enrichment (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)
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)
Jesse Sutton
Research Interests / Specializations: Economic resilience of regions to shocks in an increasingly globalized world (Arku)
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)
Xin Zhou
Research Interests / Specializations: Application of radar information extraction in agriculture (Wang)
