Research interests
International Studies | Natural Resources | Health Sciences | Anthropology | Human Rights | Community | Education | Migration | Pedagogy | Culture | History | Tourism | Health | Youth | Ireland, Canadian National Parks, Heritage, Belonging, Identity, Place and Landscape, Mapping Studies, Precarity, Social Justice and Human Rights, Migration, Asylum Seekers, Gender, Community/Cultural Well-being, Tourism, Youth, Teaching/Learning Pedagogy.
Biography
I am a social/cultural anthropologist with two primary research fields focusing on Migration, Belonging, Identity, Place, Precarity, and Social Justice. My international project concerns asylum seekers in Ireland. My national project involves young adult mobile tourism workers in Banff, Alberta. Both studies evolve from my research of social landscapes and mapping. I also focus on the scholarship of teaching and learning. I have publications in both these two research areas in both national and international journals (see below). I am a Professor of Anthropology and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at UNBC in the Faculty of Indigenous Studies, Social Sciences and Humanities (FISSSH).