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York undergrads win North American contest for debating legacy of anthropology research

Posted on 10 December 2010

Who should be the beneficiaries of publicly funded anthropological research? That was the question York students in Professor Karl Schmid’s second-year Public Anthropology class addressed in their submissions to the 2010 Public Anthropology Competition – a North America-wide contest involving 4,000 students in 21 schools. Seven students in Schmid's class won awards for their op-ed pieces, which debated the […]

Search committee seeks input on criteria for new VP research & innovation

Posted on 29 October 2010

The search committee to appoint a vice-president, research & innovation will soon commence a comprehensive international search for a successor to Professor Stan Shapson. The search committee will be drafting an advertisement to announce the start of the search, which will appear shortly in various publications and websites. In addition, the committee is working on a position profile […]

Graduate students mobilize research to benefit communities through United Way of York Region

Posted on 13 July 2010

When you’re a charitable organization in York Region seeking a research partner to inform your strategic directions and priorities, whom do you turn to? If you’re United Way of York Region (UWYR), you collaborate with York University’s Knowledge Mobilization Unit. This summer, three York University students will gain valuable experience through internships with UWYR’s Community […]

York Research Tower: Creating a new model for research collaboration

Posted on 20 May 2010

Researchers, faculty, administrators and staff working in the York Research Tower gathered on May 4 to celebrate the new building’s role in fostering social science and humanities research across York University (all speaker videos are available in the Research Multimedia Centre). Above: The York Research Tower, which opened in September 2009, features some 84,000 square feet […]

Researcher and City Institute director shifts the lens to suburbs around the globe

Posted on 18 May 2010

The suburbs have often been dismissed as cultureless wastelands of cookie-cutter housing and strip malls. But York environmental studies Professor Roger Keil, principal investigator of a major international research initiative, says there’s a lot more happening in suburbia than people think and researchers have ignored it for far too long. Most urban growth these days […]

"In-Between City" neighbourhoods face poor services and rough justice

Posted on 17 May 2010

Last week was not a good one to be living in the “in-between city”, the term urbanists use to describe areas wedged between the outer suburbs – with their sprawling residential neighbourhoods – and the downtown core of office towers, condos and cultural institutions, wrote Simon Black, a graduate student in the City Institute at […]

Professor Roger Keil: Cutting Transit City could increase racialized poverty, social dislocation

Posted on 30 April 2010

Economic spinoff arguments for transit can be complex, wrote NOW Magazine April 29 in a story about efforts by Toronto Mayor David Miller to save the Transit City plan: If people use their cars less, for example, they may have more cash to spend on clothes or theatre tickets, but there might be less work […]

SSHRC-funded global suburbanisms project receives media coverage

Posted on 12 April 2010

Novæ Res Urbis (NRU), Toronto’s city policy newsletter, covered the global suburbanisms project led by Roger Keil, Professor in the Faculty of Environmental Studies and director of the City Institute at York University. His team of 44 researchers at 29 universities in 12 countries is embarking on a seven-year project to take stock of suburban […]

City Institute PhD student: Why welfare won't be fixed

Posted on 25 March 2010

Simon Black, a PhD student in political science and a resident of the City Institute at York University, wrote an op-ed for the Toronto Star yesterday on why governments don't think the welfare system is broken. His commentary was published in advance of the Ontario budget, which will be delivered this afternoon. That welfare is […]

Panel to highlight two suburbia research projects based in York Region

Posted on 23 March 2010

A lunchtime panel featuring presentations by York researchers and urban planning professionals will wrap up two recent research projects tomorrow – "In-Between Infrastructure: Urban Connectivity in an Age of Vulnerability", based out of the City Institute at York University (City), and geography Professor Lucia Lo's "Infrastructure in York Region: A GIS Analysis of Human Services". The panel discussion, […]