Current Graduate Opportunities
Below is a listing of graduate position postings with faculty members in the various graduate programs within the Ontario Agricultural College.
Note, however, that this is not a comprehensive list.
Other opportunities are available beyond this list; please do not hesitate to reach out to key contacts such as individual faculty members, graduate coordinators or graduate program assistants within OAC if you are interested in learning more about graduate opportunities.
M.Sc. Positions
- M.Sc. - Species at risk plant-pollinator surveying, School of Environmental Sciences
- M.Sc. - Poultry behaviour and welfare, Department of Animal Biosciences
- M.Sc. - Evaluation and modeling of livestock rumination patterns in dairy cattle, Department of Animal Biosciences
- M.Sc. - Evaluation and modelling of gilt fertility traits, Department of Animal Biosciences
- M.Sc. - Understanding the production of hybrid meat and plant protein systems, Department of Food Science
- M.Sc. - Management of true armyworm (TAW) in Ontario Cereals, Department of Plant Agriculture
PhD Positions
- PhD - Crop pollination by wild pollinators, School of Environmental Sciences
- PhD - Investigating the Soil Microbiome, School of Environmental Sciences
Postdoctoral Positions
- Postdoc - Machine learning and computer vision approaches for bioinformatics data modelling and analysis, Department of Animal Biosciences
Wondering what other opportunities are available?
Reach out to one of the contacts below specifying your area of interest.
General Program Inquiries
Manager, Graduate Recruitment and Programs: Leigh West (gradinfo@uoguelph.ca)
519-824-4120, Ext. 52101
Animal Biosciences
Graduate Coordinator: Dr. Wendy Pearson (wpearson@uoguelph.ca)
Graduate Program Assistant: Jacob Harwood (harwood@uoguelph.ca)
Capacity Development and Extension
Graduate Coordinator: Dr. Helen Hambly Odame (hhambly@uoguelph.ca)
Graduate Program Assistant: Lorena Barker (cde@uoguelph.ca)
Environmental Sciences
Graduate Coordinators: Dr. Asim Biswas and Dr. Marc Habash (grdchair@uoguelph.ca)
MES Program Advisor: Dr. Kimberley Bolton (kbolton@uoguelph.ca)
Graduate Program Assistant: (ses.gradsec@uoguelph.ca)
Food, Agricultural & Resource Economics
Graduate Coordinator - M.Sc.: Prof. Alfons Weersink (faregrad@uoguelph.ca)
Graduate Coordinator - MFARE and MDTM: Dr. Spencer Henson (faregrad@uoguelph.ca)
Graduate Program Assistant: Jennifer LaPorte (faregrad@uoguelph.ca)
Food Safety and Quality Assurance
Graduate Program Coordinator: Don Mercer (dmercer@uoguelph.ca)
Graduate Program Assistant: Robin Verrall (fsqa@uoguelph.ca)
Food Science
Graduate Coordinators: Dr. Iris Joye (ijoye@uoguelph.ca)
Graduate Program Assistant: Aimee Caldwell (fsgrdsec@uoguelph.ca)
Landscape Architecture
MLA Graduate Coordinator: Dr. Robert Corry (rcorry@uoguelph.ca)
Graduate Program Assistant: Diana Foolen (dfoolen@uoguelph.ca)
Plant Agriculture
Graduate Coordinator: Dr. Istvan Rajcan (irajcan@uoguelph.ca)
Associate Graduate Program Coordinator: Dr. Max Jones (amjones@uoguelph.ca)
Graduate Program Assistant: Tara Israel (pagrad@uoguelph.ca)
Rural Planning and Development
Graduate Coordinator: Dr. Ryan Gibson (gibsonr@uoguelph.ca)
Graduate Program Assistant: Lorena Barker (rpd@uoguelph.ca)
Rural Studies
Graduate Coordinator: Dr. Leith Deacon (leith.deacon@uoguelph.ca)
Graduate Program Assistant: Lorena Barker (rsphd@uoguelph.ca)