Seminar Series

January 11, 2024: Policy Panel with Jimmy Zammar, Jessica Woolliams, and Jason Hsieh

January 11, 2024: Policy Panel with Jimmy Zammar, Jessica Woolliams, and Jason Hsieh

This seminar features a panel of three speakers from local policy sectors. They will discuss current policy priorities in Vancouver and BC, research needs, and perspectives on how research can inform policy.

March 21, 2024: IRES Student Seminar with Joanne Fitzgibbons and Imranul Laskar

March 21, 2024: IRES Student Seminar with Joanne Fitzgibbons and Imranul Laskar

Talk titles: 1. Rewilding as a Plural Boundary Object: Implications for Research and Practice 2. Characterizing uncertainties in the decarbonization of maritime shipping: an expert elicitation study

January 18, 2024: IRES Student Seminar with Kushank Bajaj on Zoom only

January 18, 2024: IRES Student Seminar with Kushank Bajaj on Zoom only

Talk Title
Transboundary climate risks of Canada’s fruit and vegetable supply

February 29, 2024: IRES Student Seminar with Tatiana Chamorro-Vargas and Jumi Gogoi

February 29, 2024: IRES Student Seminar with Tatiana Chamorro-Vargas and Jumi Gogoi

Talk titles:
1) Revealing the pathways to scale up agricultural transformation: Factors influencing adoption of Silvo pastoral systems in Colombia

2) Developing a field-scale crop yield prediction model using satellite and environmental data

March 28, 2024: IRES & IBioS Co-Seminar with Katie Fiorella

March 28, 2024: IRES & IBioS Co-Seminar with Katie Fiorella

This talk will use the case of Cambodia’s social-ecological food systems to examine how rapid changes in social-ecological systems are affecting the people who live and work within these systems.

February 8, 2024: IRES Faculty Seminar with Tabitha Robin

February 8, 2024: IRES Faculty Seminar with Tabitha Robin

This presentation is an exploration of Cree guidance for revitalizing and rebuilding Cree food systems as part of a larger Indigenous food sovereignty framework. 

November 30, 2023: IRES Faculty Seminar with David Tindall

November 30, 2023: IRES Faculty Seminar with David Tindall

Tindall describes recent work: This study examines the perceived influence of different actors in Canada’s climate change policy network just prior to the signing of the Paris Agreement. In this research, we consider the problem of addressing climate change from a policy network perspective

The IRES Seminar Series resumes September 7, 2023
April 20, 2023: IRES Student Symposium with Rumi Naito and Josh Travers (Last Seminar in Term 2)

April 20, 2023: IRES Student Symposium with Rumi Naito and Josh Travers (Last Seminar in Term 2)

Two IRES students will present their research this week for the IRES Student Symposium!

April 13, 2023: IRES Professional Development Seminar with Bekkah Coburn and Erica Triggs [IRES students only]

April 13, 2023: IRES Professional Development Seminar with Bekkah Coburn and Erica Triggs [IRES students only]

Join this week’s discussion on raising student-supervisor concerns, and how students can get support!