News – 2022

September 15, 2022

Linda Peake Elected as a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Society

GenUrb P.I., Professor Linda Peake, has been elected as a 2022 Royal Canadian Society Fellow. She was recognized for her work on anti-racism and theorizing about […]
August 9, 2022

GenUrb Authors New Article on Covid-19 and Gendered Urbanisms

The GenUrb network recently published an article based on the intersections of space, mobility and social reproduction during the Covid-19 pandemic, based on research conducted across […]
July 19, 2022

Dr. Penn Tsz Ting Ip featured on Chinese book podcast

Last month, Penn Tsz Ting Ip and other members of the Shanghai research team spoke about their research on the Chinese podcast Badass Women. Listen to […]
June 29, 2022

Job Posting – GenUrb Feminist Comparative Urban Research Post-Doctoral Visitor

Also available as a PDF. The Post-doc position is funded through the SSHRC Partnership Project Urbanization, Gender, and the Global South: A Transformative Knowledge Network (GenUrb) […]
May 5, 2022

Linda Peake Honoured with Dean’s Research Excellence Award

Linda Peake, Principal Investigator for GenUrb, was recently recognized for a York University Dean’s Research Excellence Award, under the Environmental and Urban Change Faculty. The award […]
April 6, 2022

Dr. Penn Ip Authors New Article on Shanghai’s Workers’ New Villages and Covid-19

Dr. Penn Ip (Shanghai CRT) recently published an article on the pandemic and Shanghai’s Workers’ New Villages in Sixth Tone. This article highlights the Shanghai CRT’s […]
March 10, 2022

Dr. Penn Ip Co-Authors New Book on Workers’ New Villages in Shanghai

Dr. Penn Tsz Ting Ip (Shanghai CRT), Dr. Zhang Yu and Dr. Liu Xi co-authored The Ordinary Women: Qualitative Research on Workers’ New Villages in Shanghai […]
March 9, 2022

Job Posting – Feminist Comparative Urban Research Associate

Click here to view the following as PDF. Purpose: The Research Associate position is funded through the SSHRC Partnership Project Urbanization, Gender, and the Global South: […]
March 2, 2022

Dr. Araby Smyth Awarded a 2022 AAG Economic Geography Specialty Group Student Prize

Dr. Araby Smyth, a Post-Doctoral Visitor with GenUrb, recently received an honourable mention for Best Dissertation under the 2022 AAG Economic Geography Specialty Group Student Awards. […]