Sean Grisdale, Human Geography PhD Student

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Home Campus:
U of T St. George

Other Degrees:
MA (Human Geography) University of Toronto (2018)
BA Honours (Geography) University of Victoria (2014)

Honours & Awards:
2018 Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS), University of Toronto
2016 Canada Graduate Scholarship, Masters (SSHRC), University of Toronto
2015 Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS), University of Toronto

Supervisor(s):
Alan Walks

Contact Information:

Office: Room 621, Sidney Smith Hall, 100 St. George Street, U of T, M5S 3G3
Email: sean.grisdale@mail.utoronto.ca

Research Interests:

  • digital/platform capitalism
  • gentrification and neighbourhood change
  • political economy of housing and infrastructure development
  • financialization and financial crisis

Selected Publications:

Grisdale, S. (2018). What Airbnb is doing to Toronto’s rental apartment market. Spacing Toronto. Available at: http://spacing.ca/toronto/2018/04/25/airbnb-torontos-rental-apartment-market/