The Global Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. Heidi's work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
About Heidi
ESRC funded PhD student (SWDTP), in the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Plymouth.
My research is entitled 'Respect, responsibility and reciprocity: envisioning multi-species justice in the River Dart'.
Multi-species justice is a concept that emerged to develop more inclusive practices of justice that bring together the interests of all humans, nonhumans (other beings like plants and animals, habitats and ecological systems) and their relationships. This is a response to current understandings of justice not fully capturing all experiences of injustice. While there has been progress in defining the key principles of multi-species justice, questions remain about what it might look like in practice. This research will contribute to this gap by exploring the relationships humans are (or perhaps ought to be) cultivating with nonhumans to achieve just outcomes that account for multi-species experiences. To be more specific, the aim is to ‘critically reflect on the opportunities and challenges of practising justice through multi-species lenses’. The research will focus on Rivers, specifically the River Dart, and will use a combination of interviews, participant observations and ethnographic fieldwork to look at how humans and nonhumans are entangled in practices of justice.
Supervisors: Dr Kim Ward and Dr Simon Dickinson
Teaching
Teaching and Support Assistant on the following modules:
2023-2024: GGH2206 (Nature, Country and Society); ENVS1009 (Sustainability Science); GEES519 (Environmental Knowledge: From Field to Stakeholder); GGX3204 (Big Data & Spatial Analytics); GGH1203 (Culture, Society and Space); ENVM1001 (Environment and Society)
