News and Events
Teaching Assistantship Vacancies Spring/Summer 2024
Mar 22, 2024
The Department of Global Development Studies invites applications from suitably qualified candidates interested in available teaching assistant positions.
DEVS Speaker Series Presents Dr. Wendy Harcourt
Mar 21, 2024
Dr. Harcourt probes into what it means to be a feminist and a political activist concerned about the environmental justice undertaking research in today’s neoliberal university.
Graduate colloquium in honor of Bruce Berman
Mar 19, 2024
Please join us in sharing research-in-progress or proposed by grad students working on African themes across diverse departments at Queen’s. This will also be an opportunity for us to show our respects to one of the founders of African Studies at Queen’s, and indeed, in Canada.
Developing a Glocal Future: Bridging Global and Local Perspectives Conference
Mar 10, 2024
The DEVS Department Student Council announces the 2024 conference will be held on Sunday March 10, 2024. The theme is Developing a Glocal Future: Bridging Global and Local Perspectives.
Master’s or PhD Position Available: Post-Extractive Transitions
Dec 12, 2023
The Futures of Care project led by Drs. Hall, Epprecht, and Goebel are seeking a qualified candidate interested in pursuing their MA or PhD research investigating alternative relations to land in extractive regions in northern Canada and South Africa.
DEVS Alumni Sara-Maya Kaba wins a 2023-2024 Pathy Fellowship Award
Nov 22, 2023
Funded by the Pathy Fellowship Foundation, in partnership with the Coady Institute, Sara-Maya has founded Aawaaz. Aawaaz is an initiative that works with underserved youth in Pakistan.
Students engage in learning how to express their thoughts about Lake Ontario with charcoal
Nov 21, 2023
Most of us spend our academic lives reading and writing, but there are many ways to learn and teach.
David McDonald speaks with Bill Welychka about his new Living Lake Ontario course
Oct 31, 2023
How important is Lake Ontario? That is the question that Bill Welychka, host of Global News asks Professor David McDonald.
Students engage in learning about safe fish and revitalizing fisheries
Oct 27, 2023
After learning about safe fish eating in Lake Ontario, and then learning about efforts to revitalize fisheries in Akwesasne First Nation, students learned how to clean fish from Chef Cody Balfour from Hospitality Services at Queen’s.
New course dunks students in Lake Ontario
CBC News · Posted: Sep 09, 2023 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: September 9 - Sep 09, 2023
A new course at Queen's University in Kingston, Ont., is offering students an opportunity to immerse themselves in Lake Ontario, both figuratively and literally.
Congratulations DEVS Class of 2023!
Jun 21, 2023
On June 21, 2023 the convocation ceremony for Queen's University graduates of the Global Development Studies program was held at the Leon's Centre in Kingston.
MSP research wins the Water International Best Paper Award.
Jun 16, 2023
The International Water Resources Association named the Municipal Services Project (MSP) research as the Best Paper of the Year in 2022!