The TRU is thrilled to welcome Vanessa Gray, Ladan Mohamed Siad, and Reena Shadaan as our new researchers. Vanessa will be leading our Environmental Justice research alongside Reena while Ladan takes on our Data Justice research. Vanessa is an Anishnaabe kwe from Aamjiwnaang First Nation, located in Canada’s Chemical Valley. As a grassroots organizer, land defender,…
Congratulations to TRU members Bretton Fosbrook and Kelly Fritsch on their amazing new positions! Bretton Fosbrook is Post Doctoral Fellow at the Institute for Gender and the Economy of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. His post-doctoral research builds on his doctoral research that examined how corporate strategies, like scenario planning,…
We are thrilled to announce that TRU is one of the winners of the Connaught Global Challenge Award! See the full announcement below! From U of T News, Five ambitious global projects at the University of Toronto from tackling public health issues to creating models to build “smarter” villages, are sharing $1.23 million this year from…
Check out the latest from our friends over at EDGI: “Lindsey Dillon, Christopher Sellers, and the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (EDGI) conclude the “Just Environments” series with a sobering look at the Trump administration’s dismantling of environmental agencies. In response to these threats, EDGI has been working to protect federal environmental data, monitor government…
Check out TRU’s Patrick Keilty lecture on “Strategic Desire,” presented September 5, 2017 as part of the Digital Humanities Lecture Series at Cornell University. The Digital Humanities Lecture Series is presented by the Society for the Humanities and the Media Studies Initiative and co-sponsored by the Central New York Humanities Corridor and an award from the Andrew…
Check out Dawn Walker’s awesome talk about EDGI and data justice:
The TRU is hiring! We are a mix of Indigenous and non-Indigenous lab members and we welcome applications from Indigenous, Black, People of Color, and LGBTQ2S researchers! Job Description: TRU Data Justice Research Assistant The Technoscience Research Unit (TRU) at the University of Toronto is searching for a Research Assistant who will work closely with the…
We are excited to announce a new report from our partners over at EDGI: “Changing the Digital Climate: How Climate Change Web Content is Being Censored Under the Trump Administration” by Toly Rinberg, Maya Anjur-Dietrich, Marcy Beck, Andrew Bergman, Justin Derry, Lindsey Dillon, Gretchen Gehrke, Rebecca Lave, Chris Sellers, Nick Shapiro, Anastasia Aizman, Dan Allan, Madelaine…
Our friends at the the McLuhan Centre for Culture and Technology at the University of Toronto invitesparticipants to an international symposium that will address forms of resistance within and against platform labour. An emerging wave of struggles in sectors such as logistics, food delivery, journalism, and other platform-based sites of labour has shown how workers resist…
TRU is excited to share EDGI’s new report on environmental justice, toxics, and Trump: Pursuing a Toxic Agenda: Environmental Injustice in the Early Trump Administration. It shows how Trump administration actions on pipelines, pesticides, and chemicals is increasing environmental violence, especially for Indigenous, Black, Latinx, and low-income commun ities, as well as farm workers. It also…
Congratulations to EDGI on being awarded the Making and Doing Distinguished Achievement Award from 4S! From the Society for Social Studies of Science, “The STS Making and Doing initiative aims at encouraging 4S members to share scholarly practices of participation, engagement, and intervention in their fields of study. It highlights scholarly practices for producing and expressing…
TRU members Michelle Murphy, Matt Price, Dawn Walker, and Patrick Connolly joined EDGI at their Enacting Environmental Data Justice event 4S pre-event. Breaking off into three tracks, Michelle co-facilitated the Writing a Statement on Environmental Data Justice, Dawn facilitated the Data Together track, and Patrick facilitated the Open Track: Rapid Prototyping Social Interventions. In the…
