EPI Faculty & Staff

• Critical ocean and coastal studies
• Political ecology and political economy
• Fisheries management and coastal communities
• Ocean governance
• Climate change
• Interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity

• Governance research
• Public policy analysis
• International environmental politics
• International relations and global governance

• 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

Research interests

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Cultural geography
• Urban redevelopment
• Community planning
• Public space
• Foodways and foodscapes
• Community engagement
• Urban governance
• Rural-urban connections
• Ethnographic research
• Urban comparative research

• Media and Environment
• Environmental Humanities
• Energy Studies/Energy Cultures
• Infrastructure Studies
• Cultural Geography
• Arts-Based Approaches to Environmental/Climate Communication
• Low-Carbon Research Methods
• Community Engagement
• Environmental Justice and Decolonization

• Environmental Assessment / Strategic Environmental Assessment
• Aboriginal Consultation and Involvement in Resource Developments
• Regulatory Planning and Environmental Permitting

• Water security: its multiple dimensions, including health impacts; crises in drinking water access; water insecurity and Indigenous communities in Canada
• Foodways and nutrition history: Newfoundland food consumption patterns, historical nutrition interventions in NL, Indigenous people, food consumption, and the epidemiologic transition
• Indigenous land-use patterns and related: Newfoundland Mi’kmaq, other First Nations in Canada, Inuit, the Labrador Husky and its role
• Arctic exploration: the heroic masculine, the meaning of the Arctic in the western imagination, Captain Robert Abram Bartlett, the Shackletons, women and Indigenous people and Arctic exploration

• Fisheries Management and Ecology
• Ecosystem Based Approaches to Natural Resource Management
• Integrative Research at the Science Policy Interface

Research Interests

• Communication in activism and social movements
• Creativity and Discourse creation
• Rural resilience and community development
• The interface of social learning and policy implementation

Research/interest:

• Inuit history
• Policy
• Indigenous feminism

Research interests

• Foresighting
• Full-Spectrum Sustainability
• Marine Citizen Science
• Social Licence
• Ocean literacy

Postdoctoral Fellow, Memorial University of Newfoundland

PhD in the Division of Community Health and Humanities, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland