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Education 

 

2008-2013

Phd, University of Ottawa

 

2006-2008

MA, University of Victoria

 

2002-2006

BA (Hons, Co-op), University of Victoria

 

Bio

Sarah Marie Wiebe, PhD (University of Ottawa) Dr. Sarah Marie Wiebe grew up on unceded Coast Salish territory in British Columbia, BC. She is an Assistant Professor in the School of Public Administration at the University of Victoria and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Hawai'i, Mānoa. Her research focuses on community development and environmental sustainability. She is a Co-Founder of the FERN (Feminist Environmental Research Network) Collaborative and has published in journals including Critical Policy Studies, New Political Science, Citizenship Studies and Studies in Social Justice. Her book Everyday Exposure: Indigenous Mobilization and Environmental Justice in Canada's Chemical Valley (2016) with UBC Press won the Charles Taylor Book Award (2017) and examines policy responses to the impact of pollution on the Aamjiwnaang First Nation's environmental health. Alongside Dr. Jennifer Lawrence (Virginia Tech), she is the Co-Editor of Biopolitical Disaster and along with Dr. Leah Levac (Guelph), the Co-Editor of Creating Spaces of Engagement: Policy Justice and the Practical Craft of Deliberative Democracy. At the intersections of environmental justice and citizen engagement, her teaching and research interests emphasize political ecology, policy justice and deliberative dialogue. As a collaborative researcher and filmmaker, she worked with Indigenous communities on sustainability-themed films including  To Fish as Formerly. She collaborated with artists from Attawapiskat on a project entitled Reimagining Attawapiskat which is a companion website to her recent book Life against States of Emergency: Revitalizing Treaty Relations
from Attawapiskat.
Sarah is also a Co-Director for the Seascape Indigenous Storytelling Studio, with research partners from the University of Victoria, University of British Columbia and coastal Indigenous communities. 

Select Grants & Awards 
 

2022-2023

Michael Smith Health Research BC, Convening and Collaborating Grant, "A Hot Topic: Defining Vulnerability, Capturing Resilience and Learning Lessons to Support Vulnerable Groups Adapt and

Respond to Extreme Weather in Victoria's Capital Regional District."

2022-2023

SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant, "Feeling the Heat of B.C.'s Climate Emergency: Co-Creating Equity-Informed Emergency Planning and Climate Policy with Affected Communities to Address Extreme Heat Exposures in the Capital Regional District."

2022-2023

UVic Pathways to Impact: Mobilizing Knowledge Fund

 

2022

UVic Centre for Global Studies Faculty Research Fellow 

2017 Charles Taylor Book Award

2016-2021

SSHRC Insight Grant

Seascape: Indigenous Storytelling Studio

 

2016-2018

SSHRC Insight Development Grant

Reimagining Attawapiskat

2014-2016

SSHRC Post-doctoral Fellowship

 

 

 

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