Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies

Spotlight on Faculty

Portrait of Dr. Kate Parizeau

Kate Parizeau

Dr. Kate Parizeau is interested in research questions concerning the social context of waste and its management. Her research uses waste management practices as a lens through which to interrogate complex systems of social organization and human exchanges with the natural world.

Email: kate.parizeau@uoguelph.ca

Headshot of Karl Cottenie

Karl Cottenie

I employ a quantitative approach to integrate observational, experimental and synthetic data sets, gathered by myself and others, to study this interaction of dispersal and environmental processes...

Email: cottenie@uoguelph.ca

Portrait of Dr. Edward Koning

Edward Koning

My main interest is in the politics of immigration in Western democracies. My two key areas of research are the policies that different countries have adopted to manage the integration of immigrants, and populist anti-immigrant parties.

Email: ekoning@uoguelph.ca

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Paula Barata

My research deals with psychosocial factors that influence women's health and wellbeing. Currently I am working on projects in...

Email: pbarata@uoguelph.ca

Jeji Varghese

Jeji Varghese

My research aims to improve life by helping diverse human societies to better relate to each other and think more critically about the impacts of our actions on our fellow non-human beings.

Email: varghese@uoguelph.ca

Tricia Van Rhijn

Tricia Van Rhijn

My research interests include parent-child relationships, child development, early childhood education and care, child and family well-being, family relations, various aspects of work-life integration (as well as school-life or school-work-life integration), and the experiences of non-traditional students in formal post-secondary education, in particular mature students and student parents. 

Email: tricia.vanrhijn@uoguelph.ca