Student Opportunities

Specific Opportunities

Funded MSc/PhD Positions Available

  1. Long Point Coyote Project: Design, implement, and analyze camera trap survey data to study coyote and white tailed deer at Long Point study site. (MSc-only)
  2. wildlifeHI: The development and application of novel methods and tools for studying the impacts of human infrastructure and/or outdoor recreation on wildlife movement patterns. (MSc or PhD)
  3. HomeWork-1: Use mobility data to forecast and backcast spatial and temporal patterns of daytime and nighttime population across Canada. (MSc or PhD, with M. Haan, Sociology)
  4. HomeWork-2: Use mobility data to study commuting patterns across Canada; with an emphasis on studying changes in commuting due to home working and/or the delineation of travel/transport regions. (MSc or PhD)

 

Please send Dr Long an email to express interest in these topics. Positions remain open until filled.

General Information

We are always interested in recruiting talented and engaged students (all levels) to join the Geospatial lab. Fully funded positions (~30k/year MSc, ~32k/year PhD) are  available for domestic (Canadian) students, and our department will strongly support further scholarship (e.g., SSHRC, NSERC, OGS) applications. Domestic applicants are  encouraged to contact me about positions in the winter months (Nov-Mar) prior to the September start-date to as this is when I try to fill most positions. 

International students are welcome to apply, especially if they have access to scholarships from their home country, and are required to go through an internal department competition to secure departmentl-level funding for international student positions. I support a maximum of 1 international applicant to our departmental competition in any year (deadline for application to internal competition is late January, please get in touch in Nov-Dec of the previous year).

I expect all interested students students to have strong quantitative skills (e.g., statistics, GIS, spatial analysis) along with an ability to code (i.e., R or Python).

If you are interested in pursuing a graduate studies (MSc or PhD) in the Geospatial lab, please send me an email with a copy of your CV, unofficial transcripts (or list of relevant courses), and a sample of your written work (Project/Thesis). All graduate positions remain open until filled.

 

Undergraduate Research Internships

Summer research internships in the Geospatial Lab are available for undergraduate students. These positions are FUNDED (~$9000) 16-week posistions that occur between May-August of any given year. To discuss opportunities for undergraduate research positions please email Dr Long with a copy of your CV, unofficial transcripts, and general areas of interest. Deadline to apply is February 2025. More info on the program here: https://www.ssc.uwo.ca/research/usri.html

2025 Summer Undergraduate Research Projects (potential)

  1. Long Point Coyote Project: Fieldwork, supporting camera trap data colleciton and analysis
  2. wildlifeHI: Developing methods and workflows for integrating human infrastructure data and wildlife tracking data
  3. HomeWork-1: Modelling changes in day/night population across Canada
  4. HomeWork-2: changes in home-based work before, during, after COVID-19 from mobility data