PhD Candidate (2022-present)

Nassim's community-based research explores the geographies of belonging through sound and listening among Iranian women resettled or in the process of resettling in Metro Vancouver.

MA Student (2022-present)

Em's (they/them) research is centered around making biking more inclusive and accessible to the LGBTQ2IA+ community. They are using a critical and queer theory perspective for this project in hopes that it promotes folks to choose more sustainable forms of travel.

PhD Student (2025-present)

Neha’s research explores a relational journey towards belonging to the land, and healing through food. Particularly exploring how food knowledges, cultures, practices, ceremonies and ancestral knowledge systems embody relationality and pluriversality towards food sovereignty.

MA Student (2025-present)

Lilani is a Master's student from Sri Lanka, currently studying in the Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies program. Her master's thesis looks at emotional labor that is performed by hairstylists in their professional life through their close relationships with clients. 

PhD Student (2026-present)

Nisha's research investigates the confluence of environmental risk, climate justice, and community resilience within Indian immigrant communities in British Columbia, focusing specifically on experiences related to wildfires using community-engaged, participatory research utilizing digital storytelling as the primary methodological strategy.

MA Student (2026-present)

Brooke’s research interests include tourism, travel, mobility, community-based research, and interdisciplinary global studies. They are interested in examining how tourism and travel influence cultural exchange, well-being, and relationships between people and places through interdisciplinary and qualitative approaches.

PhD Student (2026-present)

Chad’s research focuses on tourism-dependent communities in British Columbia, with an emphasis on ethical adaptive governance and how communities can equitably coexist with and adapt to natural hazards and climate change. His work examines how power relations, inequalities, and governance processes shape community capacity and resilience in the face of growing climate and natural hazard risks. Drawing on prior research in nature-based tourism, natural hazard risk management, and community resilience, Chad seeks to integrate these areas to better understand how ethical adaptive governance can support more equitable, inclusive, and adaptive approaches to risk management in tourism-dependent communities.

(2018-2023)

Thesis: Pandemic reproduction : an ethnography of disjunctures and im/mobilities in Sundsvall, Sweden

(2021-2024)

Dissertation: "Whose community?" : the political ecology of community forestry in British Columbia's Sea-to-Sky Corrido

(2021-2024)

Dissertation: The adoption of inclusive language in abortion related activism