TMU professor Shelagh McCartney named to Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists
Faculty of Community Services professor Shelagh McCarney has been selected for membership in the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists. Photo Credit: Jim Ryce
Shelagh McCartney, a professor in the School of Urban and Regional Planning at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU), has been selected for membership in the Royal Society of Canada’s (RSC) College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists. This honour recognizes emerging leaders who have significantly impacted their respective disciplines.
Faculty of Community Services professor McCartney is an internationally distinguished and award-winning scholar and architect. As founding director of the Together Design Lab, she works in partnership with First Nations communities in Northern Ontario and the Northwest Territories to identify community housing and wellness priorities and co-develop housing solutions appropriate for the local context. These collaborations have resulted in Canada’s first regional First Nations-led housing strategy.
Professor McCartney has also focused her expertise in design, planning and development on the unique housing affordability challenges students face to model new solutions through student and broader public engagement. Her partnerships and processes nurture co-creation and engage and support community members to transform housing into a community-based, decolonized system that promotes cultural well-being, inclusion and self-determination.
“As someone dedicated to participatory research, I'm thrilled that collaborative, community-based work and the change it can create are being recognized,” said professor McCartney. “I'm excited to connect with many other scholars and Fellows in the Royal College and to bring my interdisciplinary work to form new partnerships around complex housing issues. This recognition will make our work more possible.”
“It is my great pleasure to offer my congratulations to professor McCartney,” said Steven N. Liss, TMU’s vice-president, research and innovation. “Her membership in the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists will further amplify and support her unique community-centred, collaborative work addressing complex housing issues and improving lives across Canada.”
In recognition of her collaborative work to solve housing insecurity in marginalized communities, professor McCartney was named a Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada in 2021. She is also the recipient of TMU’s 2024 Social Innovation and/or Action Scholarly, Research and Creative (SRC) Award.
As one of 56 new Members of the RSC College, professor McCartney will be welcomed during the formal induction ceremony of new RSC Fellows and Members on November 8, 2024.
Learn more about this year’s new RSC Members and Fellows. (external link)
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