Graduate Student Profiles

Our Students

We’re proud of our students! Meet the talented scholars enrolled in the Institute of Political Economy’s MA graduate program. Read about why they chose to study at the Institute, where their diverse research passions lie, and what their secrets are for mastering graduate school. Click here to learn more about our MA program.

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Masters & Diploma Students 2023

Benjamin Faveri

Private governance; standards; certifications; artificial intelligence; regulation; incorporation by reference

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Taylor Welsh

Deindustrialization; Labour Market Restructuring; Gig Work/Gig Economy; Political Economy of Artificial Intelligence; Postal Banking; Colonial Primary Accumulation; Community and Industrial Unionism.

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Masters & Diploma Students 2022

Josée Lalonde

"Un-skilled" labour migration, securitization studies, and Latin American politics.

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Jacob Wilson

Housing, effective political action and the State, worker rights and labour policy, cooperatives and unions, and finance capital

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Rachel Woods

Food systems; power asymmetries; food sovereignty; social reproduction; climate change; social impact investing; privatization; water justice,;community-based alternatives and decolonial feminist theory.

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Masters & Diploma Students 2021

Zoë Abernethy

Gig Work/the Gig Economy; Platform Capitalism; Community/Coalition Unionism; Neoliberal Labour Relations/Business Unionism; Ideology and critical discourse analysis; Labour/Social Movement Studies; Social Reproduction Theory

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Ariel Becherer

The climate crisis. Market Fundamentalism. Capitalism as a cause of climate crisis. Resource exploitation. The gap between climate science & government action, particularly in British Columbia, Canada.

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Andre Carazza

Brazil

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Catherine Littlefield

relational and transformative change. sustainable and equitable food systems, social and environmental policy, socioecological well-being, participatory governance, and decolonial movements.

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Nathan Prokipcak

Indigenous Political Economy, Economic Policy, Global Finance, Economics of Resource Extraction, Labour History, and the study of political parties, both in Canada, and internationally.

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