🚨🔔‼️Upcoming Event! ‼️🔔🚨

Seminar with Mateus Tremembé

April 28th in London, Ontario

I am a Canada Research Chair in Sustainability and Equity and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Environment at Western University. I also serve as the Director of the Towards Equitable Sustainability Transitions (TEST) Lab, where we collaborate with communities on the frontlines of the climate crisis through Community-Directed Adaptation Research (C-DAR).

Before joining Western, I was an Assistant Professor of Community Food Systems at the Trent School of the Environment. My PhD is from UBC’s Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, and I have degrees in Sociology from the University of Manitoba where I used to teach courses on social inequality and power.

‼️ Calling Prospective Graduate Students! ‼️

The TEST Lab is recruiting students interested in Community-Directed Adaptation Research (C-DAR). We centre community priorities and support maintaining connections to lands and waters in the face of the climate crisis.

Several research proposals are currently under review, and we’re seeking motivated students to contribute to these projects. We are looking for students who:

Care about communities who live in reciprocal relationships with their surrounding ecosystems.
Are committed to building knowledge about and supporting interdisciplinary community-based climate adaptation.
Have existing relationships with land-based communities in Brazil, Canada, or the U.S., or a strong interest in working with communities Brazil (or other Portuguese-speaking regions). Proficiency in Portuguese is an asset.

If this aligns with your interests, please get in touch and introduce yourself.

The TEST Lab Handbook, detailing our research philosophy and approach, will be released soon, so please stay tuned for that.