From: Graduate Faculty in Geography [mailto:geogradfacu...@yorku.ca] On Behalf Of Peter Vandergeest Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2017 4:55 PM To: geogradfacu...@yorku.ca Subject: Funded Graduate Student Opportunities in Geography at York University Please forward as appropriate: Funded Graduate Student Opportunities in Geography at York University The Geography Graduate Program at York University in Toronto is recruiting up to 25 MA, MSc, and PhD students for 2018. We are offering full funding packages to all students, and excellent opportunities for research funding through faculty research projects. As one of Canada's top Geography Graduate Programs, we aim to attract excellent graduate students who fit our research-oriented graduate program. Potential students can find more information about our programs and funding on our website: <http://geography.gradstudies.yorku.ca/future-students/> http://geography.gradstudies.yorku.ca/future-students/. Our funding provides minimum guarantees with respect to annual income that are designed to be equivalent to or better than those offered by other Canadian universities. Students with high academic merit are also eligible for various scholarships. More information is available on our website. In addition, support for research and conference participation by graduate students is available through faculty research projects, and other sources including research centres (see http://research.info.yorku.ca/organized-research-units/) and the Faculty of Graduate Studies. Faculty projects in the Geography Graduate Program that are currently recruiting students on their research projects include: Urbanization, gender and the global south: a transformative knowledge network (2017-23). MA and PhD students; includes research assistant positions. Situated within the dynamic early 21st century context of urbanization, this project will conduct research and engage in public education and policy enrichment in seven strategically chosen cities (Cairo, Cochabamba, Georgetown (Guyana), Ibadan, Mumbai, Ramallah, and Shanghai) in lower middle-income countries to advance understanding of how the relationship between poverty and inequality is being transformed, focusing in particular on how this is reconstituting gender relations and women’s right to the city. Faculty Contact: Linda Peake. Spaces of labour in moments of urban populism (2015-2021). This project is recruiting both MA and PhD students. Explores labour's response to and role in shaping urban populism in four North American cities and involves students as part of the research team. Faculty contact: Steve Tufts. Long-term perspectives on lake ecosystem change with thawing permafrost (2017-22). Recruiting MSc and exceptional PhD students, fully funded thesis research, motivated students with an interest in limnology and Arctic environmental change are encouraged to apply. Investigates how lakes are changing in response to thawing permafrost in the Taiga Plains and Mackenzie Delta Uplands regions (Northwest Territories), using lake sediment cores as natural archives of long-term environmental change. Faculty contact: Jennifer Korosi. Intellectual Migration: The China-Canada-US Dynamics (2017-22). Support available for excellent MA or PhD students. Seeks to understand the dynamics underlying global knowledge and human capital flows and the significant role of Canada as a nexus in these flows by exploring who among the highly educated China-born population are likely to migrate, why they migrate, where they migrate to, and specifically, to what extent country-specific migrant attraction, retention, and/or recruitment policies affect their migration, and what policies Canada can pursue to enhance its competitiveness in the global race for talent. Faculty Contact: Lucia Lo. Understanding the Experiences of Chinese International Students in Canada: Pre- and Post-Migration Reflections (2018-20). Primarily MA students for research in Toronto. This research aims at understanding the various factors and actors facilitating the recruitment of Chinese international students to Canada, as well as documenting the different experiences of such international students after they return to China. Faculty contact: Jean Michel Montsion. Libre-échange, gouvernance et démocratie municipale. Étude comparée de quatre villes canadiennes: Halifax, Montréal, Toronto et Vancouver (2017-21). Primarily MA students. This research program focuses on comparing the impacts of free trade agreements on municipal democracy in four city-regions in Canada, based on the perceived democratic deficit felt by community actors in the design and implementation of these agreements. Faculty Contact: Jean Michel Montsion. Political geographies of activism and citizenship: Recruiting mostly PhD students. This project examines the gap between the stated principles of liberal democracy and the reality of exclusion, injustice, exploitation and oppression for individuals and communities whose bodies, practices or ways of inhabiting the world bring them into conflict with their surrounding communities and even the state. The project approaches politics from the perspective of the marginalized, and has a particular interest on studying questions of identity and belonging through creative and artistic expressions. Faculty Contact: Patricia Wood. Climate Change Diagnostics. This unit within the Geography graduate program is dedicated to identifying the patterns, trends and underlying causes of changing climate and the associated extremes that will accompany climate change. Specific research projects focus on developing predictive models for forecasting changes in climate and providing the scientific basis for adaptations that will be required to cope with climate change. Special emphasis is placed on changes in Canada and its Subarctic and Arctic regions. Faculty Contact, Richard Bello. Adjunct Professors Dr. Kaz Higuchi, Amir Shabbar. The Impact of Volcanic Ash on the Hydrology of Arctic Landscapes, Iceland. Interested in MSc and PhD students to conduct field research in Iceland for 3-4 months at a time. Evaluates the impact of tephra (dust and volcanic ash) on the hydrologic dynamics of diverse wetland landscapes in Iceland, and the utility of smart sensors in monitoring water levels, soil moisture across a wetland site in southeast Iceland. Faculty Contact: Kathy Young Ecology and survival of an endangered species in Canada. The last major Canadian population of the native cactus Opuntia cespitosa is assessed to determine health, ecology and positive interactions in its Point Pelee community. Faculty Contact: Taly Drezner. Financialization, Sustainability Transitions, and the Bio-economy in Canada and Sweden (2018-21). This project focuses on the financing of bio-refineries in Canada and Sweden – the fieldwork sites – as an attempt to understand potential techno-economic barriers to the development of the bio-economy (which is an economy in which plant materials are used as substitutes for fossil fuels). The aim is to examine the implications of financialization to socio-technical and sustainability transitions. It involves collaboration with Dr. Teis Hansen (Lund University, Sweden). Interested graduate students should contact Professor Kean Birch. Probing private refugee resettlement in Canada (2017-21). Will accept an MA student. The research examines the characteristics of place and community create conditions for ongoing refugee settlement funded and supported by private citizens in Ontario and British Columbia. Faculty Contact: Jennifer Hyndman. Queering Canadian suburbs: LGBTQ2S place-making outside of central cities (2016-20). Accepting MA and PhD students. The research addresses key knowledge gaps regarding the lives, service needs, and place-making practices of suburban Canadian LGBTQ2S (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Queer, and Two-Spirit) populations in Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver. Faculty contact: Alison Bain. Neoliberal industrialization, the rural periphery, and uneven development in India (2016-20). MA and PhD students. Examines how India's neoliberal-capitalist industrialization causes new forms of class inequality and new forms of geographically uneven development. Faculty contact: Raju J Das. Subalterity, public education, and welfare cities: Comparing the experience of displaced migrants in three cities [Havana, Toronto, Kolkata] (2015-20). MA and PhD students, must have an interest in either Cuba or India. Historically traces the geopolitical impacts on cities and schools through questions of conflict and displacement in Havana, Toronto and Kolkata. Faculty contact: Ranu Basu. Canada-Philippines Alternative Transnational Economies (2015-2019). The project explores the ways in which non-capitalist economic transactions and practices link Canada and the Philippines through networks forged by transnational migrants. MA and PhD students will benefit from a team of collaborating researchers in Toronto, Vancouver and Manila, and fieldwork opportunities in both countries. Faculty contact: Philip Kelly. Canadian Conservation in Global Context (CCGC): Intersections with Asia and Africa (2013-2019. The project examines the politics of Canada's changing conservation landscape and places it in global comparative context with long term research sites in sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia. As part of a separate project, the project is looking for students interested in the links between conservation and security and/or militarization. Interested students should contact Professor Elizabeth Lunstrum. New Directions in Environmental Governance: Remaking Public and Private authority in Southeast Asian Resource Frontiers (2013 – 2019) Explores the effects of new environmental governance mechanisms in Southeast Asia through fieldwork-based research in collaboration with scholars in five countries. Emerging focus is on labour in fisheries. Faculty Contact: Peter Vandergeest.
