Adjunct & Sessional Faculty

Zach Anderson

Research Interests

• Cultural Politics of Resource Governance and Conservation
• Political Ecology
• Political Economy
• Neoliberal Environmental Politics
• Resource Frontiers
• Critical Development Studies
• Actor Network Theory
• Critical Social Theory

Michelle Berquist

Research Interests

• Impacts of urbanization and the distribution of infrastructure cost

Joe Berridge

Research Interests

• Large scale urban planning and regeneration projects
• Waterfront redevelopment

Philippa Campsie

Research Interests

• Effective communication techniques in planning
• Housing and homelessness
• Food and local agriculture
• Public consultation techniques

Jeffrey Cantos

Research Interests

• Urban planning
• Community development

Rob Dowler

Research Interests

• Governance & planning decision making boards
• Planning administration & implementation
• Housing policy
• Transit-supportive development
• Smart cities & smart regulation
• Project management & conflict resolution

Damian Dupuy

Research Interests

• Innovation systems
• Innovation policy
• Commercialization
• Knowledge transfer
• Urban and regional economic development

John Farrow

Research Interests

• How cities develop successful economies
• Financing urban infrastructure

Christine Gibb

Research Interests

• Environment, development, migration, disasters and gender in Canada, Philippines, Europe, Ghana and Kenya

Renee Gomes

Research Interests

• Urban planning
• real estate development
• transit-oriented development
• long-term growth management planning

Kelly Gregg

Research Interests

• Pedestrianized Streets – from shopping to public space and leisure

Jennifer Keesmaat

Research Interests

• City building
• Designing safe, inclusive and vibrant public spaces
• Affordable housing
• transit planning
• heritage preservation
• strategy development
• sustainable economic development

Nick Lombardo

Research Interests

• Social geography of global cities

Julie Mah

Research Interests

• Gentrification and Displacement in U.S. Shrinking Cities: The Role of Planning Policy and Housing Subsidies in Detroit

Stanley Makuch

Research Interests

• Canadian Municipal and Planning law

James McLaughlin

Research Interests

• How human activities and natural disturbance affect soil nutrient and water cycles, water quality, and productivity
• Carbon cycling in Far North peatlands, and permafrost

Roger Phillips

Research Interests

• Geomorphology, Soil Science, and Hydrology

Tim Ross

Research Interests

• School travel experiences of families living with childhood disability

Melanie Sommerville

Research Interests

• Agrarian repair: Agriculture, race, and ‘responsible’ accumulation in an era of colonial redress

Stephen Swales

Research Interests

• Urban-economic geography
• Environment
• GIS

Sujata Thapa-Bhattarai

Research Interests

• Gendered Mobilities: Experience of everyday mobility of women in Kathmandu Valley

Joshua Thienpont

Research Interests

• Aquatic ecosystems

Romila Verma

Research Interests

• Environmental sustainability
• Climate change impacts on freshwater
• Finding creative solutions to global environmental challenges

Adam Zendel

Research Interests

• Work and Identity
• Cultural Economy
• Geography of Music

Peter Zimmerman

Research Interests

• Real estate development