Leela Viswanathan was a Queen's Alumni Award for Excellence in Teaching Finalist in 2015 and 2016. 

The award is presented annually to a Queen’s teacher who show outstanding knowledge, teaching ability, and accessibility to students.

Finalist - 2015 & 2016 - Queen's Alumni Award for Excellence in Teaching

Steve Cutway Accessibility Award

Awarded by Queen's University, Department of Geography

Julian Sziecz Award of Excellence in Teaching

Dissertation Title: Postcolonial Planning: The Alternative Planning Group and the Transformation of Social Planning at the Turn of the 21st Century.

Canadian Institute of Planners (CIP)

Ontario Professional Planners Institute (OPPI)

Canadian Association of Geographers (CAG)

Canadian Association of Community Service Learning (CACSL)

American Association of Geographers (AAG)

Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP)

An Evaluation of Ontario Provincial Land Use and Resource Management Policies and Their Intersection with First Nations with Respect to Manifest and Latent Content

Finding common ground: A critical review of land use and resource management policies in Ontario, Canada and their intersection with First Nations

2014 Provincial Policy Statement (PPS) at a Glance: Changing Tides in Ontario Provincial Planning Policy with respect to First Nations Interests

Sustainability through intervention: a case study of guerrilla gardening in Kingston, Ontario

Marginalized expertise of community organizations in Quebec's search for interculturalism

The Crown duty to consult and Ontario municipal–First Nations relations: Lessons learned from the Red Hill Valley Parkway project

Leela Viswanathan teaches topics about social planning, planning history, qualitative research methods, and urban geography. She is co-editor with Dr. Scott L. Morgensen of the Journal of Critical Race Studies. Her professional expertise in social policy, integrated comprehensive planning approaches, and community development with diverse populations informs both her teaching and her research. Leela is cross-appointed to the School of Environmental Studies and to the Department of Gender Studies. She is a Full Member of the Canadian Institute of Planners and a Registered Professional Planner in Ontario.

"My research emerges at the intersection of planning, equity and diversity. I am Principal Investigator on a multi-year SSHRC-funded collaborative research project examining approaches to planning with Indigenous peoples. See www.queensu.ca/pwip. The aim of the research is to enhance Indigenous-municipal relations in the context of land use planning in Southern Ontario. My ongoing research interests involve theories and practices of: (1) planning with First Nations; (2) planning pedagogy and service learning; and (3) race, space, and cross-cultural relations. I collaborate with community-based and academic researchers to address both technical and adaptive planning problems at local and regional geographic scales."

Social Planning

 Urban Geography

 Qualitative Research Methods

Indigenous-Municipal Relations in Planning

University-Community Engagement

Equity and Human Rights

English

French

Faculty Webpage

Planning With Indigenous Peoples (PWIP) Research Group

Queen's Researchers of Arts and Sciences

Journal of Critical Race Inquiry - Co-Editor

The costs of John A. Macdonald

Pecha Kucha to highlight research successes

Diverse projects earn funding

Planning professor focuses on building strong relationships

Shedding light on disabilities

Enhancing Indigenous-Municipal Relationships in the Context of Land Use Planning in Southern Ontario

Associate Professor, Department of Planning and Geography

Dr. Leela Viswanathan, School of Urban & Regional Planning, Queen's University
Ms. Lynn de Montigny, Development Officer, RDÉE Ontario

Integrating Immigrants into Rural Labour Markets

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