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Xuesi Shen, RES MSc.
Supervisor: Hadi Dowlatabadi
Jeffrey Scott, RMES MSc.
Supervisors: Tony Pitcher and Mimi Lam
Maryam Rezaei, RMES PhD.
Supervisor: Hadi Dowlatabadi
Congratulations to our November 2017 RMES/RES Graduates!
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Abdul Ben Hasan, RMES MSc.
Supervisor: Villy Christensen
Alicia Speratti, RMES PhD.
Supervisor: Mark Johnson
Jason Brown, RES PhD.
Supervisor: Terre Satterfield
Holly Andrews RMES MSc.
Supervisor: Terre Satterfield and Mike Meitner
RES PhD Candidate Michael Lathuillière’s recent publication in Encyclopedia of Sustainable Technologies!
November 23 2017
Congratulations to RES PhD Candidate Michael Lathuillière for his recent publication set to go out in print in December!
You can check out the book chapter at the following link:
New Adjunct Professor- Babak Pourbohloul!
We’re happy to announce that Babak Pourbohloul has become an Adjunct Professor at IRES!
Bio
Babak Pourbohloul is trained as a theoretical physicist (PhD in complex systems and chaos theory) and has been a faculty member at the University of British Columbia since 2004. He was the founding Director of the Division of Mathematical Modeling at the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control (2001 – 2016) and the founding Director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Complexity Science for Health Systems (2013 – 2017). He has been the Lead Investigator of several international mathematical modeling projects in the development and application of novel quantitative methods in public- and global health systems policy design.
With more than 18 years of experience working in both academic and policymaking environments, Babak leads consulting projects for several national and international authorities and enterprises. He aims to develop and employ methods of complex systems analysis, through multidisciplinary collaborations, to optimize policy design to achieve the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG 2030), at the local, national and international levels. His main areas of interest include public- and global health policy design, econophysics and systemic risk analysis, complex networks analysis and nonlinear dynamics
Lisa Powell (IRES Postdoctoral Fellow) – “Farm to school in British Columbia: mobilizing food literacy for food sovereignty” article published
Lisa Powell, an IRES Postdoctoral Fellow has released another article, “Farm to school in British Columbia: mobilizing food literacy for food sovereignty.”
You can find the article here:
Photo Credit: Darren Birgenheler from flickr/ Creative Commons
New Graham McDowell (PhD student) and Michele Koppes (IRES Faculty Associate) Publication
Graham McDowell and Michele Koppes have a recent publication.
To read it click here.
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For McDowell’s bio: https://ires.ubc.ca/person/graham-mcdowell-2/
For Koppes’ bio: https://ires.ubc.ca/person/michele-koppes/
Photo Credit: Graham Mcdowell from http://grahammcdowellresearch.com/visual/
RES PhD Candidate Lucy Rodina lead author of a new published article!
Lucy Rodina (RES PhD Candidate) along with co-author Leila Harris (IRES Faculty) have recently published a new article.
Click link below to view article:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877343517301884
Lucy Rodina: https://ires.ubc.ca/person/lucy-rodina/
Lelia Harris: https://ires.ubc.ca/person/leila-harris/
IRES alumnus Megan Peloso and IRES faculty Leila Harris have a new published article out now!
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Abstract
Coupling a hydrosocial perspective with institutional bricolage, this research considers possibilities for participatory water governance in Ashaiman, a peri-urban settlement of Accra, Ghana. We explore three questions: (1) How do people in Ashaiman evoke ideas or experiences of water in general and water governance in particular? (2) What possibilities currently exist for engaging the community in key water-related decisions? (3) What possibilities exist for enhanced participatory water governance in this context, including potential for and interest in new institutions and engagement processes? Results of qualitative interviews and semistructured observation suggest that a siloed, water-centric approach inadequately captures everyday realities of water as hydrosocial and of existing institutions in Ashaiman. In contrast to “modern water,” we propose that water issues may be more meaningfully addressed as bundled with social welfare. Potential implications and alternative ways of understanding socio-institutional arrangements for participatory water governance are explored.
Photo Credit: Stuart Allen from flickr/ Creative Commons
RES PhD Student Graham McDowell received the IDRC Doctoral Research Award- Congratulations!
The IRES department is happy to announce that PhD student Graham McDowell received the IDRC Doctoral Research Award!
BIO: https://ires.ubc.ca/person/graham-mcdowell-2/
Photo Credit: Graham McDowell
Happy Holidays from IRES!
The IRES Staff and Faculty would like to wish you all happy holidays and a well deserved break!
The IRES Administrative Office is open until December 21, 2017.
We are closed December 22, 2017 to January 1, 2018 and will re-open January 2, 2018.
Our first IRES Seminar Series in Term 2 will be on January 4, 2018 with Jocelyn Stacey, Assistant Professor at the Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia. Click here for more information.
See you in the new year!