SUPERVISION

Here are some students and Early Career Researchers with whom I am currently collaborating (by supervising their work as Research Assistants, or their thesis requirements, or co-authoring papers with them, etc.). 

See below for other recent collaborative projects with colleagues and a list of previous grad students.

CURRENT SUPERVISION:

Tom Chazelle Schulze (he/him) is a Master’s student in Political Science (MRP), specializing in environmental politics and political economy. His research examines how “green” mechanisms for valuing nature, such as green finance and carbon markets, operate within Canada’s historically extractivist, late-stage capitalist context, with a particular interest in questions of justice, inequality, and alternative frameworks for sustainability.

Audrey Roy is completing the Master of Environmental Sustainability program at the University of Ottawa. Her experiences in the public and private sector have built her expertise in environmental management, clean energy policy, and sustainable governance. Audrey's current research interests assess sustainable waste management in Canadian national parks. She is also researching the feasibility of implementing green methanol in Canada through a 'PESTEL' framework.

Terhemba Ambe-Uva is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Political Science, University of Ottawa. He recently participated in the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research-funded project on “Sustainable Regional Integration: The European Union and West Africa,” at the Center for European Integration Studies, University of Bonn. Terhemba is also a Research Fellow at the Institut Français de recherché en Afrique. His doctoral research investigates the global political economy of environmental change, focusing on the low-carbon economy and the blue economy. Terhemba’s scholarly works have appeared in the Canadian Journal of African Studies, Journal of Conflictology and Zentrum fur Europaische Integrationsforchung.

Anna Soer is a PhD candidate in Political Science at the University of Ottawa. She holds a Master's degree in Human Geography from Radboud University, the Netherlands. Her M.A thesis topic was centered around the topic of Inuit wellbeing, tying together environmental, political and economic wellbeing in a holistic understanding of modern Inuit wellbeing in their response to the ongoing mental health crisis. Her PhD research project focuses on Indigenous environmental and ecological knowledge, bringing therefore a critical point of view onto the development and sustainability debate around the Arctic region. 

PREVIOUS SUPERVISIONS

Rachel Snelgrove (MSc MRP 2025) completed a Master's in Environmental Sustainability writing her MRP on the efficacy and feasibility of implementing a meat tax in Canada.

Devon Cantwell (PhD 2025) completed her PhD in Political Studies, writing her dissertation on norms in climate action planning amongst in Global Cities. 

Karine Mila Lima Cambron (Master's MRP 2024) completed her Master's in Public Administration, writing her MRP theorizing the contradictions of growthism in Canadian climate policy.

Isaac Bell (MSc Thesis 2024) completed his Master's in Environmental Sustainability writing his thesis on just transition for fossil fuel workers.

Andrew Heffernan (PhD 2024) completed his postdoctoral fellowship at the Digital Policy Hub at the Centre for International Governance Innovation, while working with me at the University of Ottawa.

Corinne Blumenthal (MA 2023) completed a Master of Arts in Public and International Affairs with a Specialization in Environmental Sustainability at the University of Ottawa. Her MRP was about the Common but Differentiated Responsibilities Principle (CBDR).

Patrick Fleming (MRP 2021) completed his Master's in Environmental Sustainability at Ottawa with a Thesis on the emerging Hydrogen Economy in Canada.

Gemima Grace Attia (MRP 2023) completed her Master's in Political Science in 2023 with a Major Research Paper about climate justice.

Ellen Helker-Nygren (Master's Thesis, 2022) completed her Master of Science in Environmental Sustainability. Her thesis explored the intersection of Degrowth theory and Modern Monetary Theory.

Catherine Christoffersen (Master's Thesis, Winter 2022) completed her Master of Science in Environmental Sustainability, with a thesis studying urban sustainability and the political economy of environmental governance in the City of Ottawa. 

Taylor Brown (MRP 2022) completed her Master of Arts in Public and International Affairs, writing her MRP about the ethics of climate migration in Canadian refugee policy. 

Patrick Fournier (MRP Winter 2021) completed a Master of Science in Environmental Sustainability, and wrote his MRP about the emissions-saving potential of high-frequency passenger rail transportation in Canada.

Chloé Dobbins (MRP 2021) earned her Master of Arts in Political Science and a Specialization in Environmental Sustainability with her MRP exploring a decolonial ecology of the Israel-Palestine water conflict.

Eric Dubuc (MRP Winter 2021) completed a Master of Arts in Political Science at the University of Ottawa, writing his MRP about the environmental implications of an increasingly navigable Northwest Passage. 

Sophie Donoghue (MRP 2021) completed her Masters of Science in Environmental Sustainability, writing her MPR about municipal climate adaptation planning in Ontario cities. 

Derek Voitic (UROP 2021) was completing an undergraduate Honours Degree in Political Science and a Minor in Global Studies when he conducted research for his Undergraduate Research Opportunity on the climatic implications of a Canada UK Australia New Zealand free trade agreement. 

Yasmin Sultan (MRP Summer 2020) completed a Masters of Environmental Sustainability writing her MRP on how Canada can reduce its particulate matter emissions (PM10).   

Beverley Hinterhoeller (MRP Winter 2021) completed a Master of Science in Environmental Sustainability, writing her research paper about the potential for using municipal waste gas as a feedstock for biofuel production.

Anil Arora (RA Summer 2019) is a recent graduate of the Masters of Environmental Sustainability program at the University of Ottawa. As part of his RAship he helped co-author a number of Policy Briefs on the Future of Sustainable Protein.

Andrew Heffernan (RA Summer 2019) was a PhD candidate in Political Science at the University of Ottawa when he helped co-author a number of Policy Briefs on the Future of Sustainable Protein.

Melissa Sonnemann-Samuel (RA Spring 2019) was a fourth year undergraduate who helped out with the Future of Sustainable Protein project.

Jaidyn McEwen  (RA Winter 2019) was a fourth year undergraduate student completing when she assisted with research pertaining to the Growth-Environment debate. 

Claudia Gaudreault (MRP Summer 2019) completed her Master’s of Environmental Sustainability, exploring the concept of climate justice and climate debt in her MRP. 

Alida Doelle (UROP Winter 2019) was a third year undergraduate student when she conducted research about CORSIA as part of her Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) project, research which has helped inform some of my current publications.

Christopher Kelly-Bisson (RA Fall 2018) was a Ph.D. Candidate in political science at the University of Ottawa when they helped conduct research for a project on environmental political economy, eventually leading to our co-authored paper with Matthew Paterson in the Review of International Political Economy.

Julia Szwarc (RA Fall 2018) helped me research and co-authored a paper we published about the rise of eco-survivalism. 

Amy Parker (RA Fall 2018) helped conduct research about the growth-environment relationship.

Erin Whittingham (RA Winter 2018 and MRP Summer 2018) wrote her Master's of Environmental Sustainability MRP about why degrowth is politically absent in Canada.

Agatha Maciaszek (MRP Winter 2018) was a Master's of Environmental Sustainability student at the University of Ottawa. She wrote her MRP about single-use beverage container deposit-refund program in Ontario. 

OTHER COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS

Pieter Bruegel's "The Tower of Babel" (1563) shows the
construction of this biblical collaborative building project.

Here are some other collaborative research projects I am currently organizing (or have previously organized) in collaboration with colleagues...

The EcoPolitics Podcast! A Four Season series co-hosted with Dr. Peter Andrée of Carleton University tackling the big questions of environmental politics for university students in Canada! https://www.ecopoliticspodcast.ca/

Check out our collaborative Flying Less in Academia Resource Guide: http://flyinglessresourceguide.info/