Please join us in congratulating our faculty for their outstanding contributions to mentoring and research!
A Professor in Resources, Environment and Sustainability and the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice, Dr. Harris exemplifies a uniquely empowering and inclusive mentorship style that supports the development of thoughtful, rigorous, and productive researchers, as well as diverse global citizens and leaders. According to her mentees, Dr. Harris encourages her students to high standards of scholarly integrity, productivity, and research ethics. Through her EDGES lab, she models a supportive and collaborative environment with peer-to-peer learning. As one of Dr. Harris’s mentees notes, “Leila provides an example of the type of mentor I strive to be”.
IRES Seminar Series
Time: 12:30pm to 1:30pm (Pacific Standard Time)
Please email communications@ires.ubc.ca for video.
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Science communication to a lay audience
Abstract:
Help improve the reach of your research! Communicating your work to a wider audience can help inform policy and society, and maybe change the world. Join IRES for this free workshop, which will cover how to identify the key message in your research. You’ll learn how these key messages are essential for writing lay abstract for a research topic and preparing for an interview with a journalist about a research topic. We invite you to bring a research topic or paper on which to practice your newfound skills.
Alex Walls and Nivi Thatra
Alex Walls: Media Relations Specialist, UBC Media Relations
Alex Walls is a media relations specialist at UBC supporting the Faculty of Science, Peter A. Allard School of Law and Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies. Prior to her time with Media Relations, Alex worked as a communications specialist at the Language Sciences Institute and the School of Population and Public Health. Alex came to UBC in 2015 from a journalism background, having covered primarily technology, pharmacy and travel for publications in New Zealand, England and Australia.
Nivi Thatra: Communications Manager, IRES
Nivi is a communicator with a scientific sense of curiosity. After 10 years learning about and working in neuroscience, Nivi now broadens the reach of academic research at IRES by writing, posting, and sharing the department’s interdisciplinary efforts towards a more sustainable future.
IRES Seminar Series
Time: 12:30pm to 1:30pm (Pacific Standard Time)
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From Narrating Nature to Decolonizing Conservation: Stories from Maasailand, East Africa
Abstract:
In this talk I present my book, Narrating Nature: Wildlife Conservation and Maasai Ways of Knowing (University of Arizona Press, 2020), which draws on over two decades of fieldwork among Maasai pastoralists in northern Tanzania and southern Kenya. In the book, I seek to unsettle established ways of knowing, talking about, and managing human-wildlife relations and wildlife conservation in these landscapes and beyond, where Euro-American scientific approaches have historically dominated. I center customary Maasai knowledge production and presentation processes—in the form of narratives and the use of an active Maasai meeting/dialogue, the enkiguena. In challenging existing conservation models and the boundaries on which they rely (dividing people/nature, wild/domestic, and science/all other ways of knowing and being with nature), I ask what it might mean to talk about decolonizing conservation globally.
Mara Jill Goldman
Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of Colorado-Boulder
Bio:
Dr. Goldman is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography, with affiliations at the Institute for Behavioral Sciences, the Gender and Women’s Studies Program and the Center for Native American and Indigenous Studies at the University of Colorado-Boulder, and the Centro for International Studies, the University of Lisbon (ISCTE-IUL). She has a PhD in Geography and an MS in Conservation Biology and Sustainable Development from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is a human-environment geographer, drawing from political ecology, science studies, and indigenous/decolonial scholarship to explore knowledge politics related to conservation and development in Southern African and South Asia.
Dr. Goldman is an International Visiting Research Scholar supported by the UBC Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies. Her visit to UBC has been postponed to July – August 2022. This seminar is part of her Visiting Scholar position at the UBC Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies.
December 8, 2021: Dr. Navin Ramankutty, a UBC professor at the school of public policy and global affairs and the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, was quoted about the best way to approach climate solutions.
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December 8, 2021: Dr. Kai Chan, a UBC professor at the Institute for Oceans and Fisheries and the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, says just because a product has a green label doesn’t mean that it’s entirely environmentally friendly.
November 25, 2021: UBC geography and Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability professor Dr. Simon Donner discussed B.C.’s climate change.
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November 20, 2021: UBC geography professor Dr. Simon Donner, says the sequence of extreme weather events is a stark reminder that we can’t keep waiting to see the impacts of climate change and we need to act now.