Dr. Bandauko is an Assistant Professor of Human Geography in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (University of Alberta). He is also the Director of the Informality and Everyday Urbanism Lab (INFELA). Dr. Bandauko completed his PhD in Geography and Environment from the University of Western Ontario where he received the Governor General’s Gold Medal. Dr. Bandauko is an interdisciplinary human geographer and critical urban scholar whose research revolves around four themes: (i) geographies of precarity, (ii) informal infrastructures ad Do It Yourself (DIY) Urbanism (iii) Urban governance and agency of the poor and (iv) sense of belonging and place-based experiences. His work is published in leading journals in the field of urban geography such as Dialogues in Human Geography, Habitat International. Urban Geography, Political Geography, Social and Cultural Geography, Cities and Geoforum among others. Within the Bridging Divides program, Dr. Bandauko will conduct research under the Place and Infrastructure theme, focusing on age friendly infrastructure in Canada’s ethnic neighbourhoods.  

 Dr. Bandauko has also worked on International collaborative research projects including the University of Sussex coordinated migrants on the margins research programme which focused on the experiences of migrants living in informal settlements in Harare, Zimbabwe, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Colombo, Sri Lanka and Hargeisa, Somaliland. Within the Bridging Divides program, Dr. Bandauko will conduct research under the Place and Infrastructure theme, focusing on age friendly infrastructure in Canada’s ethnic neighbourhoods.  

BD Funded Projects

• Age friendly infrastructure in Canada's ethnic neighbourhoods (AFICEN) (TRS3 1.5)