Karen Khan graduated from UTSC in June 2023 with a specialist in City Studies. During her final year at UTSC, Karen enrolled in the CITD01: City Issues and Strategies course. Karen and a research partner worked alongside Professor Ahmed Allahwala and the East Scarborough Boys and Girls Club, to investigate how current housing policies in
Consider the approach of Professor Maydianne Andrade, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough. After a discussion at a gathering of BIPOC Women in Ecology and Evolution and with her students, Professor Andrade decided to develop a series of resources that would document the previously unwritten practices within her lab (e.g., attendance and punctuality, communication, standards
Consider the approach of Professor Laura Risk, Department of Arts, Culture and Media, University of Toronto Scarborough. In recently applying for a SSHRC Connections Grant, Professor Risk leveraged the Work Study Research Experience Stream— a program designed to support student participation in faculty-led research. With the Work Study program, the University contributes 70 per cent
Amber McNeil is fourth-year student specializing in International Development Studies (Co-Op) at the University of Toronto Scarborough. As part of the Jackman Scholars-in-Residence (SiR) program, Amber participated in a faculty-led research project “Liberating the Land: Campus Foodscapes in the GTA.” This project introduced Amber to “action research”, an approach to research that seeks to foster
