STEM for Global Resilience

Lana Gonzalez Balyk

Lana Gonzalez Balyk

Lana Gonzalez Balyk is a Ph.D. Candidate in Global Governance with the Balsillie School of International Affairs at the University of Waterloo. Her research interests included critical migration and border studies, with a focus on gender. From an intersectional feminist framework, her dissertation examines how migration governance policies and practices shape the lived experiences and

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Tim Elcombe

Tim Elcombe

Tim Elcombe, Ph.D, is an Associate Professor and past Department Chair of Kinesiology & Physical Education at Wilfrid Laurier University. Broadly speaking, Dr. Elcombe’s scholarship uses a pragmatic normative lens to examine concepts and issues related to sport ethics, cultural and political aspects of sport, sport development and governance, and social impact through sport (and

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Simon Dalby

Simon Dalby

Simon Dalby is a Professor Emeritus at Wilfrid Laurier University. His published research deals with climate change, environmental security and geopolitics. He is author of Pyromania: FIre and Geopolitics in a Climate Disrupted World (Agenda, 2024) Rethinking Environmental Security (Edward Elgar 2022), Anthropocene Geopolitics: Globalization, Security, Sustainability, (University of Ottawa Press, 2020), and co-editor of Achieving the

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