About The Journal
Global Encounters: New Visions is picking up where the journal left off in 2006! This journal is managed by the graduate students from the Department of Geography and Planning at Queen's University, and features high-quality work by undergraduate (and graduate) students in the Geography field at Queen's University. We are proud to be showcasing a diverse range of research topics and learning brought forth by the students at Queen's.
This journal is an opportunity for undergraduate (and graduate) students to gain publishing experience, and for graduate students to edit and continue building their mentorship skills.
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Hello from the Team!
Editor-in-Chief:
Kim Hill-Tout
Ph.D. Candidate in Human Geography
Hi everyone! I'm excited to be working on this journal again this year and to working with all of you. I'm a fourth year Ph.D. candidate here at Queen's University researching how people build community resilience through food against the backdrop of the climate crisis. I am particularly interested in the recent COVID-19 alimentary responses. Outside of school I enjoy watching movies, cooking, and seeing all the fall colours!
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Junior Managing Editor:
George Hodges
B.A. in Human Geography
I am a fourth year undergraduate student studying Human Geography at Queen's University. My research interests include financialization, economic geography, and urban geography. I am currently researching the geographies of Canada's social finance market.
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Journal Design:
Lee Nguyen
MSc. Candidate in Physical Geography
I am a second year Master's candidate in the Physical Geography stream here at Queen's – a student full-time but an artist for lifetime :) My research interests are in permafrost hydrology dynamics in Arctic regions. I've previously worked on two journals for layout and design and have done commissioned illustrations and pieces. In my spare time I am fond of pricking fingers on needles, creating aromatic dishes, and sketching flowers in the understory of forests.
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Human Geography Editors:
Nathalia Santos Ocasio
Ph.D. Candidate in Human Geography
I am a PhD candidate interested in art practices, their creative interpretations of the political economy and their role in social transformation. For my doctoral research, I look at Chilean arpilleras, or political tapestries that women have historically used to denounce state violence and economic inequality, as well as to instigate change. Specifically, I am interested in how these place-based creative practices related to care and social reproduction are able capture – as well as resist – complex global economic processes. Beyond my work at the university, I love cooking, reading contemporary fiction and spending time in my home country of Puerto Rico.
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Elizabeth Nelson
Ph.D. in Human Geography
Elizabeth’s research interests focus on national identity, multiculturalism, settler-ignorance, and invisibilities in the context of municipal heritage practice and public memory. She is currently exploring walking methodologies as they relate to understanding exclusion in urban heritage landscapes.
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Martina Jakubchik-Paloheimo
Ph.D. Candidate in Human Geography
Martina is a fifth year PhD candidate, joining the HEC lab in the fall of 2019. Martina has passionately been working to bridge understanding between Indigenous Knowledge and Western perspectives in the resource sector in Canada. Having graduated from Dalhousie university with Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy and Environmental Studies, and moved to South America shortly afterwards. Having done her Masters in International Peace Studies at Trinity College in Dublin, she focused on how to work towards solving the intersection of human rights and environmental issues through conflict reduction over resources and unsustainable development. From there her work has focused on Peace Process Design, Mediation, Training, Restorative Justice Circle Keeping, Conflict Analyst, and Reconciliation both at home in Canada and abroad. With the International Conservation Fund of Canada, Martina conducted ethnographic fieldwork research of Brazil’s Indigenous tribe the Kayapo who protect the largest portion of intact natural rainforest in the world. Her work focused on an examination of how the urbanization and development of the Amazon is affecting Indigenous Communities as well as the ecology and conservation of the land. She is fluent in English, Portuguese, Spanish and is working on her Haitian Creole.
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Alexandra Overvelde
Ph.D. Student in Human Geography
My name is Alexandra Overvelde (she/her). I have an undergraduate degree in Health Studies and a Masters degree in Geography. Currently, I am a first year Ph.D. student; my research interests range across the disciplines of food geographies, health geography, and labour geography. For my doctoral research, I plan to examine how grocery store work environments and company practices affect the mental health and wellbeing of workers. In my free time, I coach rowing and low to try cooking new dishes for my family and friends.
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Hannah Hunter
Ph.D. Candidate in Human Geography
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Oarisa Riddoch
B.A. in Human Geography
My name is Oarisa and I am a 4th year student majoring in global development and geography. While this is my first year with the journal, I have previous communications experience working for the tourism department in Brantford, ON. I am passionate about studying socio-spatial relationships, specifically in the context of tourism. When I am not studying, I'm usually running at the ARC or scribbling in my diary.
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Shanna White
B.A. in Human Geography
My name is Shanna and I'm currently in my third year of a Joint Honours degree in Geography and English with an Urban Planning Studies certificate. My studies focus on topics including health geography and urban planning among many other fields within human geography. As well, my studies include finding connections between English literature and the geographies within those literatures. Outside of my studies, I enjoy going on walks, swimming, and writing!
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Physical Geography Editors:
Cedelle Pereira
Ph.D. Candidate in Physical Geography
Cedelle Pereira is a PhD candidate who works in the FaBRECC lab under the supervision of Dr. Melissa Lafrenière. Her research investigates how different landscape cover (e.g., vegetation and permafrost disturbances) and seasonal hydrology influence carbon fluxes in High-Arctic Watersheds. Cedelle is hopeful to use her research to better comprehend how carbon composition and concentration vary in High-Arctic streams in response to climate change.
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Sandra Yaacoub
Ph.D Student in Physical Geography
Sandra is a Ph.D. student researching integrative ways of using remote sensing to model forest inventory variables across insect-infested boreal forests in southwest Yukon. Her hope is that this research will help contribute to improved modelling methods over disturbed regions experiencing gradual change events which are relatively overlooked in the literature despite being just as important as abrupt changes caused by fire or harvesting, for example. Outside of her excitement for research, she enjoys going on hikes, rock climbing, reading, and learning new songs on her guitar. She's looking forward to being an editor for the journal and hopes she can help spread the seek of curiosity that science brings to others!
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Sofia Guest
MSc. Student in Physical Geography
Sophia is a Masters student who is currently studying glaciers in the high Arctic. Her particular research involves examining the current and historical weather conditions and various other factors which have affected those glaciers. In her free time, you'll usually find her outside, whether it is rock climbing, skiing, paddle-boarding, etc - she loves it all!
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Samuel Poirier
MSc. Student in Physical Geography
Samuel is a Masters student studying how changing permafrost and precipitation regimes are affecting watersheds and water chemistry. In particular, Samuel is working on two unique watersheds, one in Iqaluit and one in Melville Island, trying to understand how climate change is impacting weathering processes and how that might contribute to peculiar water chemistry. Outside of his work, you'll find him hiking, biking, skiing, or whatever other outdoor activity strikes him that day. He's looking forward to getting to read and edit some of the amazing work done by the students at Queen's.
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Previous Team Members:
Charlene Monaco, Ph.D. Candidate in Physical Geography
Mark Ouseley, Ph.D. Candidate in Physical Geography
Tabatha Rahman, MSc. in Physical Geography
Kiera McMaster, M.A. in Human Geography
Thomas Stanton, MSc. in Physical Geography
Meg Herod, Ph.D. in Human Geography
Evan Saunders, M.A. in SURP
Kim Buitenhuis, Ph.D in Human Geography
Hilal Kara, Ph.D in Human Geography
Nichol Kaiser, Ph.D in Human Geography
Matthew Harding, M.A. in SURP
