Past Events

School of Environmental Design and Rural Development - Landscape Architecture MLA Master's Thesis Examination Megan Blay, a master of landscape architecture candidate in the School of Environmental Design and Rural Development, will defend her thesis on "A Wellness Design Framework for High-rise Housing". Nathan Perkins, Advisor, SEDRD Nadia Amoroso, Co-Advisor, SEDRD Martin Holland,  Advisory Committee Member, SEDRD Sean Kelly, Chair of Examination Committee, SEDRD All welcome to attend.

School of Environmental Design and Rural Development - Rural Planning and Development M.Sc. Thesis Examination Isabelle Ouellette, a master student in Rural Planning and Development in the School of Environmental Design and Rural Development, will defend her thesis on "Barriers to Implementing Multi-Modal Transportation Strategies in Two New Brunswick Case Studies:  An Exploratory Research" Wayne Caldwell, Advisor, SEDRD Ryan Gibson, Advisory Committee, OMAFRA Sean Kelly, Examination Committee, SEDRD Leith Deacon, Exam Chair, SEDRD

Please join us in celebrating the retirement of Cheryl FitzGibbon from the School of Environmental Design and Rural Development. Please RSVP to Christina Voll at sedrd.clerk@uoguelph.ca.    

School of Environmental Design and Rural Development - Rural Planning and Development M.Sc. Thesis Examination Timothy Hunting, a master student in Rural Planning and Development in the School of Environmental Design and Rural Development, will defend his thesis on "Local Trail development along Rural Canada's share of the Great Trail". Ryan Gibson, Advisor, SEDRD Wayne Caldwell, Advisory Committee Member, SEDRD

School of Environmental Design and Rural Development - Ph.D. in Rural Studies QUALIFYING EXAM SEMINAR by Ashleigh Weeden "Exploring Opportunities to Apply Place-Based Approaches to Regional Innovation Systems Theory"    Examination Committee: Ryan Gibson, Advisor, SEDRD Wayne Caldwell, Graduate Faculty, SEDRD Martin Holland, Graduate Faculty, SEDRD Philip Loring, Geography, CSAHS Graduate Faculty |Karen Landman, SEDRD, Exam Chair    All are welcome to attend.

PhD in Rural Studies  - School of Environmental Design and Rural Development PhD Thesis Defence by Kiran Bhattarai "Contested Water Resources:  Collaborative Empowerment for Social and Environmental Justice".

School of Environmental Design and Rural Development - Rural Planning and Development M.Sc. Thesis Examination Cameron Curran, a master student in Rural Planning and Development in the School of Environmental Design and Rural Development, will defend his thesis on "Community-based Compliance Management Framework  for on Onsite Wastewater System Re-Inspection programs in the Lake Simcoe Watershed".

School of Environmental Design and Rural Development - Rural Planning and Development M.Sc. Thesis Examination Thuraya Elnaiem, a master student in Capacity Development and Extension in the School of Environmental Design and Rural Development, will defend her thesis on "The Rose of Trust and Gender in Mobile Money Adoption in Lusaka, Zambia:  An Analysis Using the Technology Acceptance Model"

School of Environmental Design and Rural Development - Capacity Development and Extension M.Sc. Thesis Examination Asiful Islam, a master student in Capacity and Development Extension in the School of Environmental Design and Rural Development, will defend his thesis on " Investigating the Clinical decisions making process of Physicians in rural Ontario:  The Perspectives and attitudes on Medical Cannabis."

PhD in Rural Studies - School of Environmental Design and Rural Development Thesis Defence by Valencia Gaspard "Working on keeping it together:  Exploring the lived experience of precarious employment in rural Ontario"