Indigenous research at 91亚色 will be supported with funding of $1 million over three years through the 91亚色 Indigenous Research Seed Fund. The fund provides emerging and established Indigenous scholars with support for research that advances excellence in Indigenous knowledge, languages and ways of knowing and being. A call for applications was administered […]
At the site of a massive COVID-19 outbreak at a meat-processing plant in southern Alberta, workers don鈥檛 want things to go back the way they were before. On a cold, windy November day, Freddy Vasquez cuts a small figure as the massive Cargill meat-processing plant near High River, Alta., looms behind him. "Now hiring," reads […]
Conservationists, ecologists, and artists say it鈥檚 time to re-evaluate our perception of cormorants Along lakeshores and sea coasts, one bird draws particularly unsettled attention from humans. The cormorant is a striking, dark bird that perches on rocks and cliffs. They live in large colonies across the continent. They're seen negatively by many of their human […]
A new international definition, endorsed by the UN, would leave some Canadian communities off the list 鈥 if the definition had any legal standing The good folks of Kelowna believe they live in a city. In fact, local tourism boosters bill the place as 鈥渢he largest city in British Columbia鈥檚 Okanagan Valley.鈥 But under a […]
Research funding for faculty members is available from internal EUC sources, University sources, and from external funding agencies. Information on funding competitions and deadlines is circulated through the EUC Research Update. Further information and assistance is provided by EUC鈥檚 Research Officer, Rhoda Reyes. Graduate and undergraduate student research funding is also available from diverse sources […]
EUC Research is exploring the thinking, activism and policies that are needed to take action in the climate emergency. We are working with Indigenous communities to define new approaches to, and knowledge of, climate change. We are also critically examining the policies and behaviours that are needed to address environmental sustainability more broadly. The transition […]
The arts, culture and the humanities offer creative ways the understand, and change, the relationship between human societies and the natural environment. EUC researchers are exploring how we think about the natural world through alternative, and especially Indigenous, forms of environmental knowledge; how scientific and cultural knowledge can work in unison; and how racialized and […]
Political Ecology is the study of how social power relations are entwined with environmental processes, in contexts such as food production, extractive industries, climate change vulnerability and urbanization. EUC researchers are examining these processes in contexts as diverse as Indigenous communities and urban peripheries in Canada, the forests of Costa Rica, water resources in Chile, […]
Research at EUC critically examines the settlement of immigrants, and the experiences of migrant workers, in Canadian cities. We also seek to understand the global relations of power that drive migration processes and shape diasporic identities in all regions of the world. Projects Community Partnerships Professor Valerie Preston is the Principal Investigator of the Building […]
For most research support and services at EUC, the first stop is our Research Officer, Rhoda Reyes. At the university level, support is also provided by Research Accounting, the Office of Research Ethics, the Office of Research Services and other units under the Vice President Research and Innovation. For many researchers, university-level Organized Research Units […]