PhD Candidate
Queen's University
Global Development Studies
Supervisor: Dr. Kyla Tienhaara
I study governance frameworks surrounding sustainable finance, and in particular the transparency and effectiveness of green bond projects.
PhD Candidate
Queen's University
Global Development Studies
Supervisor: Dr. David McDonald
Broadly, my research lies at the intersection of data, development, and the city. My research project contributes to scholarly understandings of data justice and the ways in which it can be supported in the context of open data initiatives in South Africa (with implications for other cities in the global South). Focusing on open data in Cape Town, one of the first municipal open data initiatives in the global South, I ask how access to knowledge and the benefits of open data can be more equitably distributed in conditions of extreme inequality.
PhD Candidate
Queen's University
Global Development Studies
Supervisors: Dr. Rebecca Hall and Dr. David McDonald
My research revolves around understanding the ecological and social dynamics of water dispossession and water knowledges in South Asia through the lens of political economy and decolonial theory.
PhD Candidate
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Queen's University
Global Development Studies
Supervisor: Dr. Marcus Taylor
My research interests lie within the themes of social movements and sustainable agriculture. Generally, I am interested in local food systems, food sovereignty, and agroecology. More specifically, I am examining issues around labour on ecological farms in Ontario, utilizing a feminist political ecology and labour studies framework. I wish to explore the nexus between environmental sustainability and social sustainability.
PhD Candidate
Queen's University
Global Development Studies
Supervisor: Dr. Rebecca Hall
My research focuses on critical engagements with the history of Canada as an extractive state. I take a historical materialist approach to the origins of extraction throughout Canada but particularly in the North and how it has impacted Indigenous and minority communities. In addition to extraction and resources, my work also investigates the political economy of tourism and hospitality in rural, remote, and indigenous communities. Alongside my supervisor Dr. Rebecca Hall, we work with Dene communities in the Northwest Territories on post-extraction development and Indigenous-led alternative development. Overall, I utilize a Marxian political-economy framework as well as critical decolonization studies to approach the topic of development.
PhD Candidate
Queen's University
Global Development Studies
daniel.ortizgallego@queensu.ca
Supervisor: Dr. Diana Córdoba
My research focuses on alternatives to agribusiness development that challenge the dominant neoliberal food regime and contribute to potential sustainable transitions. Particularly, I am interested in understanding the complex working of power in oil palm and soybean agribusiness for their consolidation in Colombia and Bolivia and the strategies of resistance of grassroots organizations aimed at eroding this power, such as the peasant economies, agroecology, and food sovereignty.
PhD Candidate
Queen's University
Global Development Studies
Supervisor: Dr. Rebecca Hall
My research examines queer care and social reproduction in northern Canada, with a focus on health/care disparities for transgender and gender non-conforming folks. I am particularly interested in the ways in which queer, trans, and GNC youth care for one another in the context of institutional failure to meet their mental, physical, and sexual healthcare needs, and how these caring relations shape their experiences of community. I approach the intersections between queer care and northern health disparities through a decolonial, feminist political economy lens, utilizing arts-based research methods.
PhD Candidate
Queen's University
Global Development Studies
Supervisor: Dr. Marc Epprecht
My current research focuses on the interplay between conflict-induced internal displacement and disability protection. Along the way, it will unpack the policy, legal and institutional landscapes on internal displacement. Moreover, it will indulge in examining the real-life conditions and treatment of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in general and those with disabilities in East Africa (Ethiopia). It will further dis-aggregate the experiences of women, children, and the elderly as it is imperative to investigate the intra-group distinctions for a more complete understanding of the matter. The effect of ethnic affiliation on differential treatment of IDPs in the study area also forms a part of the proposed study. Overall, the proposed study applies a human rights-based approach to the assessment of the global and national responses to internal displacement.
PhD Student
Queen's University
Global Development Studies
Supervisor: Dr. Diana Cordoba
My research looks into how land use planning mechanisms can be re-established for the benefit of Black agroforestry practices in the Alto Cauca region of Colombia. I generally wish to better understand what post-neoliberal development can look like in relation to labour dynamics, natural resource management, and land use planning.
PhD Candidate
Queen's University
Global Development Studies
Supervisor: Dr. Susanne Soederberg
My research interests are grounded within Feminist Political Economy and social policy. Broadly, my research focuses on the political economy of social policy and its impact on marginalised populations paying attention to the intersections of gender, race and class.
