Her reserach interests include: critical development studies, Latin American politis, Indigenous resistance, and environmental politics.

Her thesis is examining the resistance campaign against the Alberta tar sands. She is exploring how the power dynamics among the ENGOs and the First Nations communitites are negotiated in the campaign.

His research interests include anarchist theory, indigenous political theory, post-structuralism, post-Marxism, post-anarchism, social movements, hegemony and local politics. 
His MA thesis focuses on radical social movements in Victoria and elsewhere, using political movements and practices as sites to think about political transformation, hegemony, and experimentation.  A major focus is the guerilla garden at UVic in spring 2010, which is used to foreground problems of representation, common sense, authority and experimentation. 

Nick is an activist, and works on issues of colonialism, gentrification, food and farming, and the creation of alternatives to State-capitalist ways of life.  Nick is currently the Project Coordinator for a Community-University Research Alliance focusing on co-operation and the local food social economy in Greater Victoria.  In the future, he hopes to develop his MA work in a PhD focusing on the politics of food, land, and farming in Victoria.

Her research interests include discourses of development, displacement, and migration, the role of religion in modern society, politics of international governance, and relationships of influence among international statistical institutions. Theoretical influences include post-colonial thought, comparative politics and area studies (specifically South East Asia), and the genealogical aspects of Max Weber’s work.

Dissertation: "Politics of Technology and Software's Ideology. The Effects of Digital Technologies' Programming on Social Relations"

Research Interests: Politics underlying and surrounding contemporary forms of death and dying in the context of an emerging ideal of public health, the palliative care movement.

Research Interests: His research interest focuses on Chinese media control. The main idea of his dissertation is marketizing media control in post-Tiananmen China. It is a market mechanism of media control for the Chinese Party-state that incorporates the Party censorship into the market mechanism of media control over the livelihood of media professionals and the survival of media organizations. He defended his thesis of marketzing media control in the traditional Chinese media including radio, newspaper, TV, magazine, and publications. He thinks such a mechanism can be applied in the new media, such as Internet media and satellite TVs.

Dissertation: Geographies of the Urban: Reclaiming Indigenous Political Space

Research Interests: Urban Indigenous politics

Dissertation: "Civil Cities: (en)titling Canadians"

Research Interests: Urban political theory, urban planning, post-structural thinking, immigrant settlement, and cinema.

Research Interests: Cultural, social, and political thought; art, aesthetics and politics; practices of cultural research dealing with biotechnologies

Research Interests: Political theory and cultural studies, political construction of apparently ontological categories (like time) by apparently non-political forces (like technology).  His dissertation examines the patterns of use apparent on sites like Facebook, reddit, and 4chan in order to draw larger conclusions about social media's implications for society. He attributes more significance to boredom than he probably should.

Research Interests: Social & Political Theory (particularly theories of recognition, Critical Theory, Bourdieu’s praxeology); multiculturalism/ identity politics; racism, discrimination, and symbolic exclusion.
His dissertation focuses on the intermediation between “identity models of recognition” (Charles Taylor, Axel Honneth) and “status model of recognition” (Nancy Fraser, Iris Young). It also intends to explore the integrability of Bourdieu’s social theory within the discourse on recognition.

Research Interests: Theories of democracy, citizenship, knowledge and rights. Canadian Politics.

Research Interests: Democratic and constitutional theory, and political theories of peace and nonviolence. He delights in applying his interests in political philosophy to problems in Canadian politics, political economy, geopolitics and global governance.

Research Interests: Canadian politics, political theory, 'homelessness' policy and anti-poverty activism in British Columbia through the lenses of recognition politics and contemporary forms of governing citizens, Canadian social movements, political economy and municipal politics, and theory concerned with democracy, embodiment and political space.

Comparative politics/Canadian federalism/multi-level governance/European Union. My post-doctoral research focuses on comparing the governance of employment policy in Canada with the European Union approach through the Open Method of Coordination to determine whether EU approaches might provide ideas to improve intergovernmental relations, strategic policy-making and citizen and stakeholder participation in Canada

International political economy; management of risk and uncertainty; politics of creditworthiness and regulation of credit rating agencies; Europe’s Economic and Monetary Union (EMU); analytics of government; financial technologies of control and discipline; spatial-temporal explanations of fiscal and monetary relations/governance.