Starting 2027
In the context of a SSHRC-funded research program focused on structural economic change in Canadian regions between 2001 and 2031, there is an opportunity for a PhD student to join the team.
The student will fashion their own research project within the program, but will be expected to explore connections between inequalities, voting patterns and economic change across Canadian regions at a fine scale. Qualitative and quantitative methods can be used. There will be opportunities to help coordinate the research program.
The student should be interested in local and regional dynamics in Canada (and how they resemble, or differ from, those observed elsewhere), and be comfortable with structuring, and using, spatialized data; but this is not a GIS nor a spatial methods PhD. In this research, these are tools, not ends-in-themselves.
This program gathers a team of researchers from across Québec (Richard Shearmur-PI, David Doloreux, Jean Dubé, Sébastien Breau, Marie-Pier Champagne, Anthony Frigon, Cédric Brunelle and Nicolas Devaux), with whom the student will be able to work. The student is expected to undertake their PhD at McGill, supervised by myself, with possibilities of co-supervision.
Students whose interests and skills demonstrably intersect with the project described above, should get in touch with Richard Shearmur by e-mail to discuss it
Richard Shearmur, Prof.
McGill School or Urban Planning
