Nicole Kaechele

PhD Candidate; 4 Year Fellowship; SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship; UBC Public Scholar; SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant

Contact Details

nicolekaechele[dot]bc[at]gmail.com rioprojectmanagement[at]gmail.com

Professional profile: www.rioprojectmanagement.com

Research Interests

Community-based research, Compensation, First Nations and Resource Management, Policy and Decision-making, Reconciliation, Resource governance and management

Bio

Nicole (Nikki) Kaechele is a PhD candidate at the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability under the co-supervision of Drs. Terre Satterfield and Tricia Logan. Her research focuses on the revitalization of Indigenous legal processes and the negotiation of compensation agreements for historical losses. Nikki’s research methods are interdisciplinary and community-engaged, with a focus on decolonizing research processes in collaboration with community and organizational partners.

Nikki holds an MREM from the University of Dalhousie, where she focused on geographies of health and the application of community-based participatory research methods. She also holds an undergraduate degree in Philosophy and Environmental Studies from the University of Victoria. Nikki lives and works from rural-remote communities in BC, supporting Indigenous-led planning, stewardship, and government-to-government processes. Of particular influence has been her collaborative work in ancestral governance, co-developing the Nuxalk Ancestral Governance project with colleagues and mentors from the Nuxalk Nation.

Nikki has a close network of family and friends who keep her sane and grounded. In particular, her husband and two kids, and their infinite imaginations, make for much time spent in the mountains and waters of BC, and always eating good food.

Featured Publications

Kaechele, N., Beveridge, R., Adams, M., Boyce, P., Artelle, K. (2023). A primer for the practice of reflexivity in Conservation Science. Conservation Letters. https://doi.org/10.1111/conl.13047

Click here to download a visual primer created in association with this paper

Gregory, R., Halteman, P., Kaechele, N., Satterfield, T. (2023). Methods for Assessing Social and Cultural Losses. Science, Vol 381, pp. 478-481. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adi2206

Nunanta (Iris Siwallace)., Kaechele, N., Jean-Leischner, E. (2022). Indigenizing Academic Minds to Work with Community: A Joint Reflection on the Everyday Work of Building Good Research Relationships. In The Community-Based PhD: Complexities and Triumphs of Conducting CBPR. Edited by Sonya Atalay and Alexandra McCleary. University of Arizona Press: 237-252.

Gregory, R., Halteman, P., Kaechele, N., Kotaska, J., Satterfield, T. (2020). Compensating Indigenous social and cultural losses: a community-based multiple-attribute approach. Ecology and Society 25(4):4. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12038-250404

Joséphine Gantois

Assistant Professor, IRES
Assistant Professor, Land and Food Systems

Contact Details

https://josephine.gantois.lecuyer.me

LFS Profile: https://www.landfood.ubc.ca/josephine-gantois/

Bio

Joséphine Gantois is an Assistant Professor in Human Dimensions of Biodiversity Conservation, jointly appointed in the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability and in the Food and Resource Economics Program. Her research is motivated by the need to assess and address the ecological footprint of humans in natural and agricultural landscapes. She is interested in evaluating practical solutions to reconcile private land use incentives and conservation goals, especially in agricultural areas; in monitoring biodiversity outcomes and ecosystem functions at large scales; and in estimating the causal impact of land use choices and conservation policies on biodiversity. Her research combines approaches, data, and knowledge from economics and ecology primarily, with an emphasis on causal inference, but also draws from remote sensing and machine learning tools.

Janette Bulkan

Associate Professor in the Department of Forest Resources Management, Faculty of Forestry, UBC

Contact Details

janette[dot]bulkan[at]ubc.ca

https://forestry.ubc.ca/faculty-profile/janette-bulkan/ https://pif.forestry.ubc.ca/

Bio

Janette Bulkan is not appointed at IRES and instead is a Faculty Associate of our unit. She may supervise students in our graduate program. Please see appointments in left-hand column.

I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Forest Resources Management in the Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia. I currently carry out collaborative research with Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLC) in British Columbia and Guyana, and have worked in other South American countries. I am interested in new forms of enclosures, both de jure and de facto, often mediated by the power of the State and its allies, and their generally negative repercussions on IPLCs. Those enclosures are often not about the territory itself but about proprietary access to the timber, minerals, hydrocarbons, and the associated intangible products and services that are often incorporated into complex anastomosing supply chains. I also work on community forestry and independent third-party forest certification. I served as a member of the Policy and Standards Committee of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) from 2013-2020. I am a member of the Governing Council of the Commonwealth Forestry Association and a member of the Advisory Board of the GREEN Institute, University of Guyana. I am also the Coordinator of the International Union of Forest Research Organisations (IUFRO) Working Party 9.03.07 on Indigenous Peoples and Forest Landscapes.

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Mark Harrison

Associate Professor, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Contact Details

mark.harrison@ubc.ca

Research Interests

Faculty Associate, Profiles

Bio

Mark Harrison is appointed in Pharmaceutical Sciences, not at IRES, and instead is a Faculty Associate of our unit. He may supervise students in our graduate program.

Mark Harrison is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, UBC and a member of the Collaboration for Outcomes Research and Evaluation (CORE) group. Mark leads a program of work to promote the sustainable use of healthcare resources by reducing waste and promoting efficiency. He is particularly interested in the role of patient and physician preferences in the design and delivery of treatments and clinical studies and the impact of policy interventions on patient and healthcare system outcomes. Increasingly Mark is looking to study the access to health care of marginalized populations and the relationship between health/health care and the environment.

Mark is also affiliated with the Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences (CHÉOS), the School of Population and Public Health (UBC), the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability (UBC), the Planetary Healthcare Lab (UBC), the Arthritis Research Centre of Canada, and the Manchester Centre for Health Economics at the University of Manchester, UK.

Contact: mark.harrison@ubc.ca

Matias Margulis

Associate Professor, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

Contact Details

C.K. Choi Building 373

matias.margulis@ubc.ca

6048225783

Bio

Matias Margulis is appointed in SPPGA, not at IRES, and instead is a Faculty Associate of our unit. He may supervise students in our graduate program.

Matias Margulis is Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs and Faculty of Land and Food Systems at the University of British Columbia. His research and teaching interests are in global governance, development, human rights, international law and food policy. He has previously held academic positions at the University of Edinburgh, University of Stirling, University of Northern British Columbia and Max Plank Institute for the Study of Societies. In 2010-2011, he was the Cadieux-Léger Fellow at Global Affairs Canada.

In addition to his academic research, Matias has extensive professional experience in the field of international policymaking and is a former Canadian representative to the World Trade Organization (WTO), Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). He has also advised the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food and the Scottish Parliament and consulted for international NGOs and the Brookings Institution.

Allison Macfarlane

Contact Details

Liu Institute for Global Issues

allison.macfarlane@ubc.ca

Research Interests

Faculty Associate, Profiles

Bio

Allison Macfarlane is not appointed at IRES and instead is a Faculty Associate of our unit. Please see appointments in left-hand column.

Allison Macfarlane is Professor and Director, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, Faculty of Arts, UBC. Allison has held both academic and government positions in the field of energy and environmental policy, especially nuclear policy. She was Chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission from 2012-2014. From 2010 to 2012 Allison served on the White House Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future, created by the Obama Administration to recommend a new national policy on high-level nuclear waste. Allison holds a PhD in earth science from MIT and a BSc from the University of Rochester.

Allison’s research interests are around nuclear energy and nuclear weapons materials. She is an acknowledged expert on nuclear waste disposal and repository siting and continues to work in this area. Though technically trained, she is interested insights that Science, Technology and Society can bring to understanding nuclear policy situated in a global context. She is currently engaged in projects that consider the promised new generation of reactors, SMRs.

Other links: https://sppga.ubc.ca/profile/allison-macfarlane/

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Dec 1, 3:30pm – 5:30pm | Force of Nature x UBC Climate Café

November 23, 2023: IRES Professional Development Seminar with Jackie Lerner

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.

Click here to register for Zoom link. Zoom will be terminated if we encounter tech problems 5 to 10 mins into the seminar.

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.

**Dr. Jackie Lerner**, *IRES Adjunct Professor*

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.