Derek Gladwin
Associate Professor, Faculty of Education
Contact and Websites
Email: derek.gladwin[at]ubc.ca
Faculty website: http://lled.educ.ubc.ca/profiles/derek-gladwin
Systems Beings Lab: https://systemsbeingslab.ubc.ca/
Transdisciplinary Collaborative PhD Cohort: https://climateaction.collabphd.ubc.ca/
Bio
Dr. Derek Gladwin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Language and Literacy Education (LLED), Faculty of Education, at the University of British Columbia (UBC). In addition to co-founding the Systems Beings Lab and Collaborative PhD for Climate Action at UBC, Gladwin has also served as a Sustainability Fellow and Wall Catalyst Scholar in Climate and Nature Emergency. He is also an affiliated member with UBC’s Clean Energy Research Centre and the Faculty of Education representative for the UBC Climate Solutions Research Collective.
Gladwin’s work explores approaches to education that create societal impact, including building literacy for energy transition, considering the role of complexity and systems approaches in academic work, fostering socio-ecological awareness and action (e.g., through discourse ecologies), and prototyping regenerative learning models in higher education.
He has published academic articles, public forms of scholarship, and authored or co-edited many books, including Ecological Exile (2018), Rewriting Our Stories (2021), and the forthcoming Acting Ecological. As Senior Editor, he leads Environmental & Sustainability Education in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education.
As a transdisciplinary researcher and educator focusing on complex societal issues, he has worked with a wide range of graduate students in various disciplines. Please contact for specific inquires.