The Urban Policy Lab’s Graduate Fellows program offers Munk students interested in cities and urban policy the chance to participate in unique experiential learning opportunities, help coordinate the School’s urban-oriented extracurricular programming, and contribute to the Lab’s collaborative research, civic education, and outreach projects.

Eligibility and Financial Support

Up to four fellowships are available to second-year MPP or MGA students. Each fellowship comes with a $3,000 tuition bursary, in recognition of the time commitment involved (approx. 10-15 hours/week, September 2024 to April 2025).

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A programming note for our students at the Munk School and our partners across Toronto: I will be on leave for the 2023-24 academic year, to take up a visiting fellowship at the London School of Economics and Political Science. As a result, most Lab activities, including the UPL fellowship program, will be temporarily paused until my return.

Gabriel Eidelman, PhD
Director, Urban Policy Lab
Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
University of Toronto

Catch up with all the latest projects and events with the Summer 2023 edition of the UPL newsletter.

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The UPL has teamed up with the Munk School’s Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance to launch the Who Does What paper series.

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The Urban Policy Lab’s Graduate Fellows program offers Munk students interested in cities and urban policy the chance to participate in unique experiential learning opportunities, help coordinate the School’s urban-oriented extracurricular programming, and contribute to the Lab’s collaborative research, civic education, and outreach projects.

Eligibility and Financial Support

Up to four fellowships are available to second-year MPP or MGA students. Each fellowship comes with a $3,000 tuition bursary, in recognition of the time commitment involved (approx. 10-15 hours/week, September 2022 to April 2023).

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Recent polling shows that the cities and suburbs of Canada’s leading metropolitan regions, particularly in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) and Metropolitan Vancouver, are critical battlegrounds for the September 20th federal election. Although COVID-19 and healthcare are at the forefront of most urban voters’ minds, it is beneficial to look at other policy areas that impact cities.

Although provincial governments and city halls make most of the policy that directly affects city-regions, the federal parties still covet the metropolitan vote. How do the four major political parties stack up against one another on key urban issues?

Urban Policy Lab Graduate Fellow Sean McGowan provides a breakdown in this special election primer for the University of Toronto’s School of Cities.

Read the full post on the School of Cities website.

The Urban Policy Lab has several part-time employment opportunities for University of Toronto students during the 2021-2022 academic year. Visit https://urbanpolicylab.ca/apply/ for job descriptions, required qualifications, and application instructions.

Catch up with all the latest projects and events with the Spring/Summer 2021 edition of the UPL newsletter.

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The Urban Policy Lab’s Graduate Fellows program offers Munk students interested in cities and urban policy the chance to participate in unique experiential learning opportunities, help coordinate the School’s urban-oriented extracurricular programming, and contribute to the Lab’s collaborative research, civic education, and outreach projects.

Eligibility and Financial Support

Up to four fellowships are available to second-year MPP or MGA students. Each fellowship comes with a $3,000 tuition bursary, in recognition of the time commitment involved (approx. 10-15 hours/week, September 2021 to April 2022).

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In partnership with Beyond the Headlines, the Munk School’s student-led current affairs show, UPL graduate fellows Sara Szot, Stephanie Bertolo, and Madison Leisk produced a podcast investigating supports for main streets and local economic recovery during the global pandemic.

Fellows sat down with Toronto City Councillor Brad Bradford, Ariana Holt, Senior Planner at the Canadian Urban Institute, and Jason Spicer, Assistant Professor in U of T’s Department of Geography and Planning to learn more.

Click here to listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts.

The Urban Policy Graduate Fellows program is an initiative by the Urban Policy Lab that offers students interested in cities and urban policy at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy the chance to participate in unique experiential learning opportunities, help coordinate the School’s urban-oriented extracurricular programming, and contribute to the Lab’s collaborative research, civic education, and outreach projects.

Eligibility and Financial Support

Up to four fellowships are available to second-year MPP or MGA students. Each fellowship comes with a $3,000 tuition bursary, in recognition of the time commitment involved (approx. 10-15 hours/week, September 2020 to April 2021).

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The Urban Policy Lab is excited to announce the 2019-20 cohort of Urban Policy Graduate Fellows, a team of second-year Master of Public Policy students at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy who will contribute to the Lab’s education, research, and outreach projects.

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The Urban Policy Graduate Fellows program is an initiative by the Urban Policy Lab that offers students interested in cities and urban policy at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy the chance to participate in unique experiential learning opportunities, help coordinate the School’s urban-oriented extracurricular programming, and contribute to the Lab’s collaborative research, civic education, and outreach projects.

Eligibility and Financial Support

Up to four fellowships are available to incoming second-year MPP or MGA students. Each fellowship comes with a $2,000 tuition bursary, in recognition of the time commitment involved (approx. 10-15 hours/week, September 2019 to April 2020).

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The October 2018 edition of the Urban Policy Lab newsletter is out! Catch up on all our latest projects and events, and make sure to subscribe to receive future updates right to your inbox.

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Update September 7, 2018: The inaugural edition of the Urban Policy Lab newsletter is out! Catch up on all the latest news here.

The Urban Policy Lab is excited to announce the inaugural cohort of Urban Policy Graduate Fellows, a team of second-year Master of Public Policy students who will contribute to the Lab’s research projects, participate in unique experiential learning opportunities, and help coordinate the School’s urban-oriented extracurricular student programming. 

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With the creation of the new Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, the Urban Policy Lab is pleased to announce the following list of affiliated faculty, drawn from both the former School of Public Policy and Governance and Munk School of Global Affairs:

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The Urban Policy Lab is excited to announce a new Student Fellowship Program offering Master of Public Policy students interested in cities and urban policy making the chance to participate in unique experiential learning opportunities, contribute to the Lab’s research projects, and help coordinate the School’s urban-oriented extracurricular programming.

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As part of the recent Ontario 360 project, Prof. Gabriel Eidelman, director of the Urban Policy Lab, in collaboration with Prof. Zack Taylor, director of Western University’s Centre for Urban Policy and Local, called for an independent review of the relationship between the province and its 444 municipalities and the creation of a ‘Who Does What’ Advisory Panel for the 21st century.

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The School of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Toronto is excited to announce the creation of the Urban Policy Lab, a hybrid teaching and research hub that will serve as a focal point for the School’s urban initiatives, offering students new experiential learning opportunities through a range of collaborative research and civic education projects.

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