Jaimy Fischer

PhD

 Jaimy Fischer (Ph.D.) has training in GIScience, healthy cities, urban transportation and mobility, and community-engaged research. Within all these areas, she works to centre principles of equity and inclusion. As a Michif (Red River Métis) person and researcher, Jaimy has a strong passion for social justice and equitable mobility, and for decolonizing and Indigenizing practices within institutions and disciplines such as planning, education, and GIScience. Jaimy has extensive experience conducting and teaching GIS & sociospatial equity analyses, particularly in the context of urban planning and intervention research. Their PhD research investigated equity in spatial data and interventions aimed at supporting bicycling for transport, and current research focuses on transport reconciliation, equity in spatial accessibility to daily needs, and urban trails as pathways for Indigenous health and inclusion.

Research interests: Geographic information science, active transportation, spatial equity, crowdsourced data, mobility justice, Indigenous geography

Projects: Impacts of Bicycle Infrastructure in Mid-Sized Cities Study (IBIMS), BikeMaps.org, Interventions, Research, and Action in Cities Team (INTERACT)