One of the highest honours a student can receive from Queen's was awarded to two DEVS students this year, Asha Gordon (Artsci 2018) and Emilio Frometa (MIR 2018).

Asha Gordon has been actively working on campus to create dialogue around race and ethnic inclusion in the Queen’s community through her  work with the Queen’s Black Academic Society and the Levana Gender Advocacy Centre. She also worked with colleagues, students and alumni to co-found the Queen’s Black Alumni Chapter.

DEVS 4^th-year student Tara McDonald is one of this year’s recipients of the The Agnes Benidickson Tricolour Award. The Award and induction in the Tricolour Society is the highest tribute that can be paid to a student for valuable and distinguished service to the University in non-athletic, extra-curricular activities.

Ms. McDonald created the Queen’s Elephant in the Room Anti-Stigma Campaign for mental health. She is a leader who empowers others and never gives up when advocating for equity and social change.

Global Development Studies is happy to announce that graduating student Jennifer Langill has been an awarded the OceanPath Fellowship for her individualized, interest-free micro-finance program that she developed in Laos, Southeast Asia.  Ms. Langill?s goal is to expand the program in the original village and then introduce it in three others. 

​DEVS 4^th-year student Hanna Chidwick has received an OceanPath fellowship for 2017-2018 to organize “Dinner Wellness Workshops” for older people in Moshi, Tanzania and increase equitable access to health services information.  Historically, the burden of disease in Tanzania – specifically communicable diseases like malaria and HIV/AIDS – has been the focus of primary care. Now the community faces a new and different challenge – a steady increase in non-communicable diseases such as hypertension and diabetes, especially among people over 50.

Lourdes Pérez Montalvo, professor and Vice Dean of Research, Graduate Studies and International Relations at the University of Havana’s Faculty of Philosophy and History passed away April 15 in Havana. Generations of Faculty of Arts and Science students will know Professor Pérez as the Havana coordinator of the Queen’s University/University of Havana exchange program, and the FAS course Cuban Culture and Society (DEVS 305).

Congratulations to Dr. Reena Kukreja

The department of Global Development Studies congratulates Dr. Reena Kukreja for her successful application to the Scholarly Research and Creative Work Fund for the project entitled "Love, Longing, And Desire: Exploring The Crisis Of Masculinity And Family (Re)Formation Of Undocumented South Asian Male Migrants In Greece".

With several decades of experience working in the field of sustainable development in sites across Asia, Dr. Bernadette Resurrección brings valued expertise to the Department of Global Development Studies in her new role as a Queen’s National Scholar in Development in Practice. For undergraduate students, Dr. Resurrección offers a range of courses on topics such as development project planning, climate and disaster reduction, and gender and environment. At the graduate level, Dr. Resurrección has been teaching a core seminar on fieldwork methods. Department Head Dr.

Congratulations to Dr. Marcus Taylor

The Department of Global Development Studies congratulates Dr. Marcus Taylor on his appointment of Head, Department of Global Development Studies for the period July 1, 2018 to June 30, 2023.