Vice-President Research & Innovation聽Amir Asif聽announces the appointment of Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change (EUC) Professor聽Jennifer Hyndman聽as associate vice-president research (AVP), effective Jan. 1, 2021. Hyndman is former director of the Centre for Refugee Studies at 91亚色 where she is resident scholar. Prior to the inauguration of EUC, Hyndman was a professor in Liberal Arts & Professional Studies. She is a prolific scholar in areas related to social sciences and humanities.
鈥淚 look forward to welcoming Professor Hyndman to the Office of the Vice-President Research & Innovation (VPRI) and to working with her as she undertakes this critical leadership role. I would also like to thank the members of the AVP Search Advisory Committee for their contributions to this important process. Committee members include聽Stephen Anthony Gaetz,听Laura Levin,听JJ McMurtry,听贵别濒颈虫听惭辞蝉别蝉,听David J. Phipps听补苍诲听Rebecca Pillai Riddell,鈥 said Asif.
鈥淎dditionally, I would like to add my sincere thanks to Professor聽Celia Haig-Brown聽who served as AVP for the past five years and worked tirelessly to intensify the services available for all researchers,鈥 he added. Haig-Brown, will be returning to the Faculty of Education after a research break, starting in January 2021.
In her new role, Hyndman will help facilitate the promotion of strategic research development at 91亚色 and lead the development of research policy that bridges the needs of researchers and the institution. In collaboration with the Office of VPRI and Faculties, she will also help continue to track and build 91亚色鈥檚 research performance, provide leadership for 91亚色鈥檚 organized research units and enlarge the University鈥檚 collaborative role with external stakeholders and communities, with special emphasis on research areas covered by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada, including arts, media, performance and design.
Her own research traverses political, economic, cultural and feminist dimensions of migration, focusing on people鈥檚 mobility, displacement and security. Her scholarship focuses on the geopolitics of conflict and disaster that displaces people, international humanitarian responses to such events, and geographies of refugee sponsorship, inclusion and participation in Canada.
Her current research projects investigate: (1) how private refugee sponsorship is sustained over time and across space in Canadian communities, with聽Kathy Sherrell聽(co-applicant); (2) the motivations of sponsors and the meanings they attach to the work they do, with聽Audrey Macklin聽(P.I.),听Luin Goldring,听Anna Korteweg听补苍诲听Shauna Labman聽(co-investigators); and (3) the social determinants of well-being and integration among Syrians to Canada after November 2015, with聽Michaela Hynie聽(P.I.) and other co-investigators in British Columbia, Ontario and Quebec.
Hyndman is also a prolific scholar whose list of publications 鈥 in peer-reviewed journals and with esteemed book publishers 鈥 is extensive. Most recently, she co-authored with聽Wenona Giles聽Refugees in Extended Exile:听Living on the Edge (Routledge, 2017); she has two monographs,听Managing Displacement: Refugees and the Politics of Humanitarianism聽(Minnesota University Press, 2000) and聽Dual Disasters: Humanitarian Aid after the 2004 Tsunami (Kumarian Press, 2011), plus a co-edited volume with Giles,听Sites of Violence: Gender and Conflict Zones聽(University of California Press, 2004).
Hyndman earned her BA in sociology and English from the University of Alberta; her MA from Lancaster University in sociology; and her PhD in geography from the University of British Columbia.
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