Environmental Consulting: An Insider’s View
Time: 12:30pm to 1:20pm
Location: Beaty Museum Allan Yap Theatre (Basement, 2212 Main Mall) Please check in at the Admissions Desk first before going to the Theatre.
No food or drinks allowed in the Theatre.
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This seminar will not be recorded.
Talk summary:
This presentation will be a frank exploration of careers in environmental consulting, including a personal account of the speaker’s journey into the field, what a degree from IRES can add to your career development, what your typical work week might look like, what the trade-offs of pursuing this profession can be, and how you can improve your chances of both finding and enjoying work as an environmental consultant.
Bio:
IRES Alumna Dr. Jackie Lerner has been a consultant to industry and to municipal, Indigenous, provincial, territorial, and federal governments for over twenty-five years. Most of her work has related to the environmental assessment of large resource development projects in Canada: primarily mining and energy projects in British Columbia. Her dissertation (2018) proposed new methodologies for understanding probable future development patterns as part of cumulative effects assessment; she has more recently focused on practicable approaches for incorporating gender-based analysis into environmental assessment.