Congratulations to Dr. Marcus Taylor, Professor and Department Head of the Global Development Studies Department, on his recent appointment as Special Advisor to the Principal on the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Dr. Taylor will assume the appointment in January 2026.
MA Candidate | Thesis Option
Queen's University
Global Development Studies
MA Candidate | MRP Option
Queen's University
Global Development Studies
My research interests include migration, diasporas and how remittances can support economic development. I would like to examine formal and informal networks within diasporas that encourage migration and the transfer of wealth between countries. I would like to apply an interdisciplinary approach to examine economic issues and the politics of citizenship. I am interested in the intersection of race, gender and immigration policies that affect documented and undocumented workers.
MA Candidate | Thesis Option
Queen's University
Global Development Studies
My research interests are geared toward sustainable development and global health. I come from a background in Biology. This interdisciplinary background has provided me with a multifaceted lens that considers development in a holistic way. My goal is to look at global health with biological and social sciences in mind, examining how the two are connected and how they impact one another through the frameworks of embodiment and ecosocoial theory. My current research project is focused on investigating the impacts of aquaculture as an adaptation to the environmental degradation caused by hydropower dams in Thailand. Current practices allow communities to be disproportionately affected as we accelerate into the Anthropocene and face the challenges of climate change. I intend to evaluate different sustainable processes that can lessen this effect in a resilient way and the impacts of aquaculture on the communities' physical and mental wellbeing.
MA Candidate | Thesis Option
Queen's University
Global Development Studies
MA Candidate | Thesis Option
She/Her
Queen's University
Global Development Studies
Jordyn Moreno is a master’s student within the Department of Global Development Studies here at Queen’s University. She previously received a Hons. BA in Global Development Studies with a minor in History at Queen’s. Jordyn has participated in a variety of research projects throughout her academic career, surrounding topics such as poverty and food security in Latin America, as well as land politics and community health in Sub-Saharan Africa.
My research interests currently surround the topics of land politics, migration, and community health and wellbeing in coastal Tanzania. My thesis project aims to utilize an interdisciplinary approach to examine the intersections of these topics by tracing the migratory routes of individuals displaced by climate change and large-scale land acquisitions and exploring how they embody their migration experiences and environments.
"Sembrando Vida and its Negative Effects on Peasant Communities in Mexico," blog post, Poverty Research Network, University of Glasgow.
https://www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/poverty/publications/blogposts/#d.en.848925
MA Candidate | MRP Option
Queen's University
Global Development Studies
MA Candidate | MRP Option
Queen's University
Global Development Studies
MA Candidate | MRP Option
Queen's University
Global Development Studies
