Research Archives - Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change

91��ɫ commits $1M over three years to support Indigenous research

paultran — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 13:27:04 +0000

Indigenous research at 91��ɫ will be supported with funding of $1 million over three years through the 91��ɫ 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 […]

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What Cargill workers want

paultran — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 19:09:04 +0000

At the site of a massive COVID-19 outbreak at a meat-processing plant in southern Alberta, workers don’t 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 […]

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Championing the Cormorant: Why experts argue this water bird is unfairly vilified

paultran — Thu, 07 Oct 2021 18:19:00 +0000

Conservationists, ecologists, and artists say it’s 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 […]

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What makes a city a city, officially? Kelowna and Sudbury might be in for a surprise

paultran — Tue, 05 Oct 2021 15:13:47 +0000

A new international definition, endorsed by the UN, would leave some Canadian communities off the list – 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 “the largest city in British Columbia’s Okanagan Valley.” But under a […]

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Research Funding

paultran — Wed, 25 Aug 2021 21:46:35 +0000

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’s Research Officer, Rhoda Reyes. Graduate and undergraduate student research funding is also available from diverse sources […]

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Climate Action & Sustainable Transitions

paultran — Tue, 17 Aug 2021 20:37:08 +0000

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 […]

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Environmental Arts & Culture

paultran — Wed, 18 Aug 2021 00:18:59 +0000

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 […]

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Political Ecology

paultran — Tue, 17 Aug 2021 20:10:08 +0000

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, […]

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Migration & Diaspora

paultran — Tue, 17 Aug 2021 19:25:24 +0000

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 […]

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Research Support & Services

paultran — Fri, 06 Aug 2021 05:02:00 +0000

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 […]

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