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Myra Hird will be presenting the keynote speech entitled "Disturbing Messmates and Becomings Indeterminate: Geobio Forces in Waste Flows" at Lancaster University in June. Myra will be speaking as part of ‘(In)determinate Subjects: Indeterminacy & Justice’ program being held with the support of the faculty of Science and Technology.

Myra Hird and Dr. R. Kerry Rowe (Civil Engineering) are the recipients of a SSHRC Insight Development Grant for their study 'Citizen Science Solutions to Waste Management Issues'. For more information see Canada’s Waste Flow.

Myra Hird is currently a Distinguished Visiting Scholar award to Oxford University’s School of Geography and the Environment, and a Visiting Fellow at New College, Oxford University.

Myra Hird is currently featured on the website of the Environmental Sociology Cluster of the Canadian Sociological Association. The monthly profiles feature scholars and students as a means of showcasing a diversity of Canadian environmental research.

Myra Hird is pleased to announce her cross-appointment with the School of Environmental Studies at Queen's University.

Anne Croy (PI), Charles Graham, Chandra Tayade, Myra Hird and Graeme Smith have been awarded a Canada-Brazil Collaborative Research Fellowship, jointly funded by Queen’s University and UNICAM. The award supports researcher and graduate student training exchanges. Rebecca Scott is in the first round of exchanges, and she will be traveling to Brazil soon to conduct research there. More information can be found in the Queens Journal.

Myra Hird has recently become the North American Editor for Feminist Theory, and an Editor for the Speculative Realism book series published by Edinburgh University Press.

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Biography

I earned undergraduate degrees from the University of Western Ontario

and the University of Windsor, a Masters degree from McGill University and a D.Phil. from Oxford University.

My research and teaching interests span the areas of science studies, environmental studies, and knowledge mobilization.

I have supervised thirty seven graduate students (and several final year undergraduates) researching a wide range of topics. I am the Director of the genera Research Group (gRG) at Queen’s University.

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Congratulations

Congratulations for Rebecca Scott, one of Dr. Hird's PhD students, who is doing research in Brazil.

Congratulations also to Rebecca for her article, "Placentations." Reading Sociology, 2nd Ed. Lorne Tepperman and Angela Kalyta (eds). Oxford University Press. (Ch. 63). Rebecca recently received a YW Loke New Investigator Travel Award of $500(US) The awards are administered by IFPA (International Federation of Placenta Associations) courtesy of the Centre for Trophoblast Research at the University of Cambridge and will be presented at a reception at the upcoming IFPA annual conference in November Geilo, Norway. This is an award that is normally awarded to scientists to present their work at a scientific conference .

I am happy to report that PhD student Jeremy Leveque's article "Re-Examining Reproduction: Ecological Marxism as an Epistemological Instrument for the Study of Reproductive Science, Technology, and Politics" has been accepted for publication in the International Journal of Science in Society. Congratulations Jeremy!