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Canada Research Chairs

The Canada research chairs (CRC) program is committed to excellence in research and research training. Trent University shares this commitment and boasts a significant number of highly engaged CRCs.

The CRC program seeks to:

  • Strengthen research excellence in Canada
  • Increase the country’s research capacity by attracting and retaining the best researchers
  • Improve the training of highly qualified personnel through research
  • Improve universities' capacity to generate and apply new knowledge
  • Promote the best possible use of research resources through strategic institutional planning and collaboration among institutions and between sectors.

Trent University Canada Research Chairs


Dr. Marguerite Xenopoulos

Dr. Marguerite Xenopoulos

Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Global Change of Freshwater Ecosystems

Research interests: Stream and lake ecology, global change, biogeochemistry

Dr. Whitney Lackenbauer

Dr. Whitney Lackenbauer

Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in the Study of the Canadian North

Research interests: Modern Canadian and circumpolar history; political studies; military history / war and society; and Indigenous-state relations in Canada

Dr. Dennis Murray

Dr. Dennis Murray

Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Integrative Wildlife Conservation

Research interests: Population dynamics and behavioural ecology, predation, parasitism and herbivory, conservation biology and wildlife management

Dr. May Chazan

Dr. May Chazan

Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Feminist and Gender Studies

Research interests: Activism, gender, feminist studies, aging and society, social change

Dr. Naomi Nichols

Dr. Naomi Nichols

Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Community-Partnered Social Justice

Research interests: Social inequality; poverty; youth homelessness; youth justice; child welfare; education; "youth at risk"; youth mental health; higher education research impact and community-academic research collaborations

Dr. Anne Pasek

Dr. Anne Pasek

Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Media, Culture and the Environment

Research interests: The politics of infrastructure, critical making and research-creation processes, and feminist STS. She has published on topics ranging from geoengineering, knitting software, Moore’s Law, urban agriculture, and glitch aesthetics.

Ian Power

Dr. Ian Power

Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Environmental Geosciences

Research interests: Carbon sequestration and tailings management, natural analogues for carbon mineralization, and geobiological approaches to carbon management

Paul Szpak

Dr. Paul Szpak

Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Environmental Archaeology

Research interests: Archaeological science, stable isotopes, paleoecology, environmental archaeology, human-environment interactions, bone chemistry, paleo diet, domestication and animal husbandry, Arctic, Peru, Chile

Dr. Bharati Sethi

Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Care Work, Ethnicity, Race and Aging Professor, Political Studies

Research interests: Caregiving, arts-based research, community-based participatory research, policy and immigration.

Dr. Andrew Tanentzap

Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Climate Change and Northern Ecosystems

Research interests: Ecology and evolution, environmental science, climate change

 

 

CRC Vacancies at Trent

There are currently no CRC vacancies.

Trent's Past CRCs

  • Julian Aherne, Environmental Modelling
  • James Conolly, Archaeological Studies
  • Céline Guéguen, Aquatic Sciences and Biogeochemistry
  • Eric Helleiner, International Political Economy
  • Marrie Mumford, Aboriginal Arts and Literatures
  • Bryan Palmer, Canadian Studies
  • Davide Panagia, Cultural Studies
  • James Parker, Emotion and Health
  • Mehdi Sharifi, Sustainable Agriculture
  • Mark Skinner, Rural Aging, Health and Social Care
  • Aaron Slepkov, Physics of Biomaterials
  • Brad White, Conservation Genetics and Biodiversity
  • Carol Williams, Feminist and Gender Studies
  • Paul Wilson, DNA Profiling, Functional Genomics and Forensic Sciences

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Learn more about the CRC program.

CRC Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan

CRC Standard Operating Procedures: Standard Operating Procedures for Allocating Canada Research Chairs at Trent and Standard Operating Procedures for Nominating Canada Research Chairs at Trent

Canada Research Chairs

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    • Dr. May Chazan
    • Dr. Whitney Lackenbauer
    • Dr. Dennis Murray
    • Dr. Naomi Nichols
    • Dr. Anne Pasek
    • Dr. Ian Power
    • Dr. Paul Szpak
    • Dr. Marguerite Xenopoulos
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