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The challenges we face today—social and environmental injustice, climate change, precarious work, surveillance, and a shrinking public sphere—are big, complex and multifaceted. Among their many other dimensions, they are questions of communication and culture, which demand urgent engagement. The Ph.D. in Communication, New Media, and Cultural Studies (CNMCS) is for creative students who embrace complexity, love difficult questions, and hunger for intellectual, artistic, and pedagogical risk-taking driven towards positive social change.

McMaster’s Doctoral Program in Philosophy offers courses of study leading to the degree of Ph.D. in philosophy. The program is designed so that students may quickly enter into the excitement of their own research, while steadily building a solid foundation of comprehensive knowledge.

The Cultural, Social, and Political Thought major in the Ph.D. program is interdisciplinary in nature. It is based on a cohort learning model that fosters an environment of interdisciplinary engagement and exchange, research, peer mentoring, and collaboration. The overall academic aims of the major are to emphasize the breadth and depth of social, cultural, and political thought and to inculcate the intellectual and practical tools needed to work successfully with community partners and agencies to facilitate social change. 

The School of Social Innovation of the Faculty of Human Sciences at Saint Paul University offers a Ph.D. in Social Innovation. The Ph.D. in Social Innovation provides a space for research and reflection aimed at understanding the dynamics and multiple impacts of social innovations, in order to assess and structure them more efficiently.

The Faculty of Canon Law of Saint Paul University offers graduate programs leading to a doctor of philosophy in canon law (Ph.D. (CL)). The civil degree is conferred jointly by Saint Paul University and the University of Ottawa under the terms of the federation agreement between them.

The doctoral program is intended to promote the acquisition of a high level of intellectual autonomy and expertise in an area of research. As well, applicants are expected to contribute to the progress of knowledge in their discipline or area of studies by presenting original research in the form of a doctoral dissertation.

The goal of this program is to educate counselors who are also researchers capable of independent and collaborative research. As researchers, they will be able to contribute to the knowledge base that informs counseling and spirituality.

The program, administered by the School of Conflict Studies, studies various dimensions of social, political, and philosophical conflict from a multilevel and multidisciplinary perspective.

Finance is a key discipline at the Telfer School of Management. Students examine the theoretical and analytical foundations of corporate finance, financial instruments, portfolio management, intertemporal options, valuation of assets and risk management. The field gives business graduates in economic sciences and related fields the means to pursue higher education.

Entrepreneurship is essential for developing effective public policies and training of stakeholders in technology commercialization. All his subjects are interdisciplinary, including processes and entrepreneurial cognition, recognition of opportunities, the emergence of new companies, intrapreneurship, social entrepreneurship, policies for SMEs and lending fee.

We assume they understand the accounting process and recognize the challenges in his practice - but Telfer students will go beyond the limitations of traditional accounting to incorporate an economic dimension, financial, organizational or sociological rigorous in their work on contemporary issues.

The first Indigenous Studies Ph.D. program in Canada, this program ensures that the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual dimensions of Indigenous Knowledges are articulated, discussed, documented, recognized and respected within the overall program field of Indigenous Knowledges: Peoples, Lands, Cultures. Indigenous Peoples, particularly Elders and Knowledge Holders, are central to the program and curriculum.

Become a catalyst for change in what is often called “the Age of the Environment.” Pose the critical questions about the issues of our time, and study alongside experts to find the answers. Explore environmental issues that will shape our future: the conservation of biodiversity, the spread of contaminants and infectious diseases, the matters of sustainability and water quality.

This program, the first of its kind in Canada, opens the door to a collaborative, interdisciplinary environment in which you will have the opportunity to take on ground-breaking research in your chosen field. In this program, you will have the flexibility to work with your colleagues and faculty members the way that best suits your studies. After graduation, you will be ready to do the important work of contributing, through teaching and original research, to fields of inquiry pivotal to the development of our thinking, and our cultures, in the twenty-first century. Trent graduates go on to become teachers and researchers at universities and colleges in Canada and abroad, and to develop new forms of cultural inquiry and artistic innovation wherever they live.

Recognized nationally and internationally, in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Queen's, we pride ourselves on the excellence of both our teaching and our research, as well as the strong connection that we have with our students. Our faculty, staff, and students are a diverse collection of individuals who come from all parts of the globe. The common thread that binds us is that we learn, teach, and research ECE.