Congratulations to Shahida Hoque, Warren Mabee, and Carolyn DeLoyde, whose article Transitional housing: A sustainable planning approach has been published in the most recent of Y Magazine – the journal of Ontario Professional Planners! Shahida is an MPL graduate, co-supervised by Carolyn and Warren during her studies at Queen’s.

On April 17, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) announced the Top 25 finalists for its 2023 Storytellers Challenge. Among the finalists are three Queen's students, Madison Robertson, Michalina Woznowski, and Geography and Planning's Hannah Hunter! Hannah's submission is a short audio essay about her SSHRC (Vanier) funded research on bird sound recordings and extinction. Listening to Birds at the End of the World can be heard here.

Geography and Planning’s Wai Yin (Wilson) Cheung has been awarded a top prize in this year’s Art of Research photo contest!

The Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) has launched a new program, Humanity’s Urban Future, to understand what it will take to build successful cities. Dr. Grace Adeniyi-Ogunyankin, faculty member in the Departments of Geography and Planning and Gender Studies, has been named a CIFAR Fellow of this new program. Grace will work together with researchers from around the globe to study how metropolitan centres have changed over time and space, with the goal of engaging policy makers, political advisors, and civic actors for future social impact.

The newest issue of the Human Rights and Equity Office (HREO) blog has been posted. In this issue, Lon Knox, University Secretary and Corporate Counsel, write about their feelings of hesitancy leading a working group at Queen’s. But being comfortable feeling uncomfortable is an opportunity for learning and growth. 

You can read Lon’s piece here: Getting Comfortable With Being Uncomfortable | Human Rights and Equity Office (queensu.ca)