Aging, Palliative and Supportive Care Across the Life Course
The first aim of the Institute is to conduct applied interdisciplinary research on aging from a life course perspective which sets the Institute apart from most existing centres and institutes on ageing. Using a bio-psycho-social approach, the Institute focuses on the processes of aging and population aging. All of the research is competitive and funded by national bodies in Canada: CIHR, SSHRC, NCE, HRSDC.
Find out moreDevelopment Policy and Power
Provides a critical and historicized understanding of the nature of some of the main policy debates within the field of development, including: the changing evolution of power dynamics within particular development policy domains over time at the global, national, and local levels of analysis; the role of the power struggles over development policy making and implementation that ensue from these power dynamics; and the ways in which these power struggles pose severe challenges to the institutionalization of policy domains that are equitable and rights oriented.
Find out moreEnvironment and Health
The Environment and Health (EH) program complements the collaborative specialization in Environmental Studies while adding a distinct focus on the interplay between the outdoor environment and health status. The health implications of human impacts on the environment cover a very broad range of issues including: air and water quality, contaminated land and shifts in the distribution of vector-borne diseases (related to changes in land-use, climate and human migration).
Find out moreFood Studies
Food Studies is an interdisciplinary field dedicated to understanding where our food comes from and how it shapes our bodies and identities. The study of food provides both theoretical understanding and practical knowledge for professional careers in health care, business, government service, non-governmental organizations, and educational and community programs.
Find out moreHuman Development
The Collaborative Doctoral Specialization in Human Development (CPHD) is an integrative, transdisciplinary specialization that brings together PhD students from diverse backgrounds to approach human development problems from a holistic perspective. The specialization is structured to facilitate collaboration across academic “silos” and train students to “speak the language” of other disciplines.
Find out moreNeuroscience
The Collaborative Specialization in Neuroscience is the largest collaborative neuroscience graduate specialization in Canada with more than 380 faculty members and over 270 graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, from fifteen academic departments across six faculties at U of T. This large and versatile community provides the strong basis to cultivate a successful training Specialization supporting excellence, collaboration, innovation, and translational and trans-disciplinary research activities.
Find out moreResuscitation Sciences
The goal of the Collaborative Specialization in Resuscitation Sciences is to train scientists pursuing research in the optimal care of the acutely ill and injured patient and, ultimately, to create leaders in the discipline who will supervise others providing this level of scientific inquiry. The specialization will appeal to students from a wide variety of backgrounds with an interest in any aspect of resuscitation science.
Find out moreSexual Diversity Studies
The Bonham Centre hosts a collaborative graduate specialization in Sexual Diversity Studies at the MA and PhD levels, inaugurated in 2008. This is one of few such specializations anywhere, and builds on the rapid expansion of the SDS undergraduate program, and the faculty research strength at the University of Toronto.
Find out moreWomen and Gender Studies
For the past 40 years, WGSI has trained students to think about the entanglements of gender, race and sexuality. Our teaching and research is distinctive for its transnational feminist approach, critically addressing how national borders, colonialisms, labour, and migration shape life, knowledge, and politics.
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