Research papers
You can find all my research papers on Google Scholar. Some of them are posted here (below) with full text.
Educators’ experiences and strategies for responding to ecological distress
This study surveyed environmental educators about their experiences and strategies for responding to their learners’ ecological distress. Educators’ strategies included encouraging students to engage with their emotions, validating those emotions, supporting students to navigate and respond to those emotions, and empowering them to take climate action.
Bearing worlds: Learning to live-with climate change
This paper explores the emotional experiences of some undergraduate sustainability students in a semester long course on climate change. Specifically, it attends to experiences of anxiety, frustration, overwhelm, guilt, grief and hope. I suggest these experiences are characteristic of a process I term learning to live-with climate change. Learning to live-with climate change involves attuning to the relational composition of the world and thus the self; mourning desirable relationships that are lost as the planet warms; and responding to these conditions in ways that may foster more liveable worlds.