January 15, 2026: IRES Student Seminar with Neha Sharma-Mascarenhas and Jessica Mukiri (First seminar in Term 2)
Join us for the first seminar of term two, given by our IRES PhD students!
Topics: Electronics at the End-of-Life: Repair Ecosystems, Consumer Decisions, and Policy Barriers and Consumption of Alt-Proteins to Mitigate Food Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Canada
January 22, 2026: IRES Professional Development Seminar with Rebecca Dirnfeld
This session offers a practical overview of interviewing tips and techniques, emphasizing how strategic career planning during graduate school can set the foundation for interview success.
December 4, 2025: IRES Student Seminar with Manvi Bhalla (Last seminar in Term 1)
IRES grad student Manvi Bhalla will present her research on how South Asian immigrants in Canada face environmental injustice and why their voices must be centered in the country’s new environmental justice strategy.
November 6, 2025: IRES Student Seminar with Clare Price and Sveinar Soldal
Join us for our upcoming seminar, given by two IRES grad students!
Topics: impacts of urban noise on human perception and well-being, and, the emergence of renewable electricity policy in Norway and Alberta
October 30, 2025: IRES Faculty Seminar with Dr. Kees Lokman
Dr. Kees Lokman will speak on coastal adaptation led by Indigenous values, cultural revival, and ecological care.
October 23, 2025: IRES Professional Development Seminar with Shaochen Yuan
This talk offers an insider’s take on how Schneider Electric embeds decarbonization, circular design, and innovation into every layer of its global strategy.
October 9, 2025: IRES Student Seminar with Mauricio Carvallo
How can cities adapt to rising seas and uncertain futures? IRES’s Mauricio Carvallo uses Surrey’s climate planning as a case study to show how flexible, cost-aware strategies can help protect farms, homes, and infrastructure from coastal flooding.
October 2, 2025: IRES Faculty Seminar with Dr. Juliet Lu
How is the EU’s anti-deforestation law landing in Southeast Asia?
This talk explores the backlash against the EUDR in rubber-producing countries and what it reveals about global power imbalances in sustainability policy.
September 11, 2025: IRES Student Seminar with Victor Cardenas (First Seminar in Term 1)
Exploring how climate change impacts the lending capacity of microfinance institutions (MFIs) to smallholder farmers (SHFs), this talk will analyze global trends in physical climate risk—particularly tropical storms and floods—and their effects on 4,500 MFIs under various climate scenarios.
March 20, 2025: IRES Student Seminar with Sam Gorle and Verena Rossa-Roccor
Talk 1: Simulating the Impacts of Hedgerow Restoration on Metapopulation Capacity in Southern Ontario.
Talk 2: Academics as activists: exploring and building political knowledge mobilization capacities to influence climate policy