The faculty involved with SERI come from a wide variety of backgrounds and affiliations. Click below to learn more about each faculty member involved with SERI.
Current Faculty
Affiliations
Director, Sustainability Education Research Institute; Principal Investigator, Sustainability and Education Policy Network; and Associate Professor, Department of Educational Foundations
Research Interests
- Place, environment, and sustainability
- Social justice, globalization, critical issues
- Youth culture and activism
- Educational policy and practice
Affiliations
Director, Aboriginal Education Research Centre and Associate Professor, Department of Educational Foundations
Research Interests
- Gay, lesbian and two-spirit narratives
- Health and violence
- Indigenous land-based education
Affiliations
Professor, Department of Educational Foundations
Research Interests
- History of women and education
- Feminist theory, Educational biography
- Poetry
- Sense of place
Affiliations
Department Head and Professor, Department of Educational Foundations
Research Interests
- Learning as valuing
- Ecological education
- Teaching and learning at the University; Philosophy of education; Process philosophy
Affiliations
Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Foundations
Research Interests
- Science education
- Environmental education
Affiliations
Associate Professor, Department of Educational Foundations
Research Interests
- Critical pedagogy
- Teaching for democracy
- Ideology critique
- Environment & neoliberalism
- Critical media literacy
- Teaching for social justice
Affiliations
Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Planning; School of Environment and Sustainability
Research Interests
- Urban planning and design
- Aboriginal peoples
- Housing studies
Affiliations
Professor, Department of Geography and Planning; School of Environment and Sustainability
Research Interests
- Cognitive science (in relation to geography, psychology and education)
- Geographic information science
Affiliations
Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability; Department of Geography and Planning
Research Interests
- Environmental governance
- Community-based ecosystem management
- Sustainability of rural communities
Affiliations
Associate Professor, Department of Native Studies
Research Interests
- Indigenous foods, food sovereignty
- Indigenous women's rights
- Impact of globalization on Indigenous peoples
- Protection of biodiversity
- Indigenous Knowledge systems
Partnerships
Within the University of Saskatchewan, SERI includes faculty from the:
- Aboriginal Education Research Centre (AERC)
- Centre for the Study of Co-operatives
- Department of Curriculum Studies
- Department of Educational Foundations
- Department of Geography and Planning
- Department of Native Studies
- Indigenous Land Management Institute
- Office of Sustainability
- School of Environment and Sustainability (SENS)
- Sustainability Working Group
Academic partnerships also exist with Lakehead University, York University, the University of British Columbia, Dalhousie University, Kings University College, and various international locations in Australia, Holland, New Zealand, South Africa, and the USA.
- Collaborative research partnerships with organizational partners, graduate students, and faculty with shared research interests
- Journal editorial boards and special issue publications
- International Research Agreements (e.g., Pontificia Universidade in Brazil, for Brazilian-funded annual exchanges of faculty and student researchers)