Research guides: CITD01: City Issues and Strategies: Home

Learning Outcomes

Developing Your Topic

You will brainstorm and present a working direction on your planned area by determining the opportunities and constraints of the area, and review information gathered from the course of your planned area so to guide your research, reading, and writing of your topic.

Search Strategies

You will identify a list of keywords specific to your topic in order to retrieve relevant books and articles in a library database for your research assignment.
You will learn to design and refine search needs and search strategies as necessary and based on search results.

Icebreaker

Each group shares what their opportunities study report is on:

Neighbourhood: tell us a bit about it in comparison to other city neighbourhoods
Topic Area: what about your topic area is interesting?

Key e-Resources

International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS)
Citations to journal articles, books, reviews, and chapters in the fields of anthropology, economics, political science, and sociology.
GEOBASE
Database for physical and human geography, earth and environmental sciences, ecology, and related disciplines, focusing on the human and social impacts on both.

Canadian Public Policy Collection (Scholars Portal Books)
This is a collection of materials from Canadian public policy institutes, government agencies, advocacy groups and think-tanks materials.
ACCESS INSTRUCTIONS: After you click on the link, choose "Canadian Public Documents Collection" from the Collection drop-down menu below the search box.

PolicyFile (US)

Institute for Research on Public Policy (IRPP)

Other Key Resources

TOcore - downtown plan

PAIS Index
International research in public affairs, public and social policies, and international relations. Provides access to journal articles, books, government documents, research and conference reports, and more.

Fraser Institute
A policy think tank organization that measures and communicates how government policies affect the lives of Canadians.
City of Toronto - Reports & Data Centre
Includes detailed data, maps, and information about the city of Toronto and its neighbourhoods and communities.
APA Citation Guide

Lib4Life: Library skills workshops for school and life

The UTSC Library’s Lib4Life workshop series is currently on hiatus.

Instead consider completing our Library Research Skills Modules. Please refer to the University of Toronto Libraries’ tri-campus workshops calendar to find more research skills workshops.

Undergraduate Research Events & Prizes

The University of Toronto is well-known for its dynamic research environment, and U of T Scarborough is committed to fostering opportunities for undergraduate research experiences. As part of this commitment, the UTSC Office of the Vice-Principal Research and the UTSC Library launched two research initiatives in 2016: the UTSC Undergraduate Research Poster Forum and the UTSC Undergraduate Research Prize. A third opportunity for recognition exists through the tri-campus Patricia and Peter Shannon Wilson Undergraduate Research Prize.

Each program provides an opportunity for students who have excelled in research, scholarship and creative activities to showcase their research and win cash prizes.

More Information

UTSC Undergraduate Research Poster Forum - Application deadline: February 23, 2021 11:59 PM EST

UTSC Undergraduate Research Prize - Application deadline: Thursday, April 8, 2021 11:59 PM EST

Patricia and Peter Shannon Wilson Undergraduate Research Prize - Application deadline: Winter 2021 TBD