Below is a list of SERS faculty members and their research interests. For more information, follow the link in their name to their profile page.
Derek Armitage
- Human dimensions of environmental change
- Adaptive and collaborative governance in coastal and marine systems
- Coastal conservation and social-ecological systems
Christine Barbeau
- First Nations, adaptive capacity, resilience and climate change
- Local and sustainable agriculture in Arctic Indigenous communities
Marta Berbes
- Sustainable urban futures
- Environmental justice
- Resilience and social-ecological systems
- Ecosystem services and human wellbeing
- Design justice
- Participatory action research
Jennifer Clapp
- Global food security politics and governance
- Food system sustainability
- International political economy of the environment
Andrea Collins
- Feminist international relations and global governance
- Gender and global political economy
- Global land and agricultural governance
- Gender and environmental politics
- Backlash politics and counter-movements in global politics
Rob de Loë
- How photography can deepen engagement with environmental challenges
Felicitas Egunyu
- Inclusion and equity in collaborative governance
- Social impacts assessment
- Science and policy integration
Brad Fedy
- Wildlife ecology and management
- Landscape genetics
- Habitat selection
- Population dynamics
- Applied statistics
Dustin Garrick
- Water conflict and cooperation
- Social-ecological transitions (economic and environmental history)
- Collective action, property rights, and markets
Robert Gibson
- Environmental assessment law and process reform
- Sustainability assessment principles and applications
Rob Gorbet
- Interfaces. Physical interfaces, interfaces between disciplines, interfaces between people.
- Interface design; interactive artworks; human interaction in collaboration, teaching, and learning.
Leah Jones-Crank
- Water-energy-food nexus
- Collaborative water governance
- Urban sustainability
- Stakeholder engagement
- Qualitative research methods
Brendon Larson
- Ecology/biodiversity conservation and society
- Connection to nature
- Perception of nature
Kelsey Leonard
- Ocean and water policy
- Earth law and Indigenous law
- Ocean/coastal/marine participatory mapping
- Indigenous climate change policy
- Indigenous data sovereignty
Chantel Markle
- Effects of climate-mediated disturbances on habitat use and function
- Climate refugia: Detecting and predicting change
- Habitat restoration: Enhancing resilience to climate change
Stephen Murphy
- Ecological restoration, resilience, rewilding and conservation
- Novel ecosystems
- Ecology and policy of parks and protected areas
- Pollination and invasive species ecology
James Nugent
- Social movements, environmental/climate justice, just transition
- Urban political ecology and green economic development
- Community-based/participatory research
Maren Oelbermann
- Sustainable agriculture and climate change resilience
- Soil health, biochar, carbon sequestration
Katie Plaisance
- Philosophy of science
- Philosophy of the human behavioural sciences
- Socially relevant philosophy of science
- Social epistemology
- Interactional expertise
- Interdisciplinary collaboration
Stephen Quilley
- Energy and complexity: Integrating insights from Norbert Elias and HT Odum
- Environmental politics: degrowth; Class politics and resistance to Net Zero; the history of green political economy ecological economics; green politics; conservative philosophy and politics
- Postliberal politics and political economy: Aquinas; Virtue Ethics; Catholic Social Teaching: subsidiarity; Alasdair Macintrye; Roger Scruton
- Environmental management and sustainability: Net zero and measurement of scope 1 2 and 3 emissions; Sustainable procurement
- Christian theology and environmental thought: Thomas Aquinas, Tolkien, CS Lewis, Owen Barfield
- Modernity, cognition and ecological conscience/ habitus formation: Iain McGilchrist, Luria, Water Ong, Ernest Gellner, Owen Barfield
Ian Rowlands
- Energy governance and policy
- Sustainable energy strategies
- Multilevel climate governance
- International energy and environmental relations
- Internationalization of higher education
Vanessa Schweizer
- Collective decision-making. This includes many processes such as articulating aspirations and values, exercising foresight, confronting uncertainties and risks, and negotiating tradeoffs.
Helena Shilomboleni
- Agriculture and food security in the global South
- Farming systems resilience
- Scaling digital agriculture innovations
Andrew Trant
- Global change ecology
- Biogeography and forest ecology
- Historical ecology