Core Faculty
Core Faculty are faculty members with appointments to the Environmental Policy Institute.
- International and comparative political economy
- Political Ecology
- Development and environmental change (e.g. fisheries)
- Environmental politics and policy
- Climate change and renewable energy
- Science-policy interfaces and evidence-based policy
- Community-engaged research
- Knowledge mobilization
- Interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity
- Deliberative democracy
- Sustainable rural community and regional development
- Rural resilience and community adaptation
- Community involvement in natural resource management
- Collaborative, multi-level governance
- Rural innovation
- Community engaged scholarship
- Governance research
- Public policy analysis
- International environmental politics
- International relations and global governance
Affiliated Faculty
Affiliated Faculty are permanent faculty members at Grenfell Campus who are not appointed to EPI but who maintain an ongoing relationship with EPI, usually by teaching or supervising students in the Master of Arts in Environmental Policy (MAEP) program.
Dr. Stephen Decker
Associate Professor, Environment and Sustainability
Internship Officer
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- (709) 639-6578
- Integrated Resource and Environmental Management (IREM)
- Sustainable Resource Management
- Public involvement in resource management decisions
- Parks and protected areas planning and management
- Human dimensions of wildlife management
Dr. Camille Ouellet Dallaire
Assistant Professor, Environment and Sustainability
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- (709) 637-6214
- Ecosystem Services
- Impact Assessment
- Cumulative Impacts
- Sustainable natural resources management
- Watershed management
- Interdisciplinary Integration
- Large-scale modelling of riverscapes
- Geospatial and multi-variate analyses for sustainability
Dr. Josie Wittmer
Assistant Professor, Environment and Sustainability
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- (709) 639-6536
- Community engaged research
- Critical pedagogy
- Critical data studies / digital geographies
- Environmental governance and justice
- Feminist geography/methodologies
- Infrastructure
- Labour
- Mental health in the academy
- Political ecology
- Waste and discard studies
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Environmental and energy humanities
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Environmental history, politics, and visual culture
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Community engaged research
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Low-carbon, arts-based, and interdisciplinary approaches to sustainability
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Environmental media studies
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Just energy transitions
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Infrastructure
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Gender and intersectionality
- Sustainability science: concept and measurement
- The future of the ocean
- The Anthropocene and climate change: ecological economics and the objective value of life
- Relevance of the FAO voluntary guidelines for sustainable development of small-scale fisheries
- The promise of agroecology: small-scale organic agriculture for Newfoundland and Labrador
Adjunct Faculty
Adjunct Faculty are researchers who maintain an ongoing relationship with EPI, but who are not permanent faculty members at Grenfell Campus. They may be available to serve as co-supervisors or on supervisory committees, but not as a student’s primary supervisor.
Dr. Amy Hudson
Governance and Strategic Planning Lead with NunatuKavut Community Council (NCC)
Co-lead negotiator for NCC on the Recognition of Indigenous Rights and Self-Determination (RIRSD) table
- Inuit history
- Policy
- Indigenous feminism
Dr. Mery Perez
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Office of Public Engagement, MUN Grenfell Campus
- Communication in activism and social movements
- Creativity and Discourse creation
- Rural resilience and community development
- The interface of social learning and policy implementation
Dr. Michael van Zyll de Jong
- [email protected]
- (506) 648-5630
- Fisheries Management and Ecology
- Ecosystem Based Approaches to Natural Resource Management
- Integrative Research at the Science Policy Interface
Postdoctoral Fellows
PhD in the Division of Community Health and Humanities, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland