Imagining Ourselves into Being: Feminist Research Labs

Workshop on "Theory as Method" at the Feminist Media Studio in Tiohtià:ke / Montreal

My long-time colleague (and previous Visiting FEELer) Jennifer Hamilton and I just finished writing a book called Weathering Together: Feminist Practice for Climate Change (stay tuned for more updates!). In one of its chapters, I describe how the FEELed Lab came into being. One of the important factors in the FEELed Lab’s emergence, I note,… Continue reading Imagining Ourselves into Being: Feminist Research Labs

Researcher Profile – Susan Reid

As we welcome new people to the FEELed Lab, we want to make space for longer introductions to project team members and research affiliates joining us this year. This profile is on Sue Reid, who is joining the FEELed Lab as a postdoctoral fellow researching multibeing onotologies with a focus on human-ocean relationships. 1.Can you tell us about… Continue reading Researcher Profile – Susan Reid

Researcher Profile – Tom Letcher-Nicholls

As we welcome new people to the FEELed Lab, we want to make space for longer introductions to project team members and research affiliates joining us this year. This profile is on Tom Letcher-Nicholls who is joining the FEELed Lab to work on his PhD thesis about place-based ways of rethinking literary methodology and method. 1.Can you tell… Continue reading Researcher Profile – Tom Letcher-Nicholls

Researcher Profile – Julia Jung

As we welcome new people to the FEELed Lab, we want to make space for longer introductions to project team members and research affiliates joining us this year. This profile is on Julia Jung who is joining the FEELed Lab to work on deir PhD thesis linking polyamory and transdisciplinary collaborations in ocean science and marine conservation. Julia… Continue reading Researcher Profile – Julia Jung

Turning Over

A couple of years ago I read Turning: Lessons from Berlin’s Lakes by Jessica J. Lee. This beautifully crafted environmental memoir also taught me about the seasonal turning of lakes: the colder and warmer parts of the lake switch places, and a lake’s appearance changes too – a murkier summertime lake all of a sudden… Continue reading Turning Over

Tasting Climate Change

How can tasting burnt toast help us taste wildfire, as part of climate change? Photo Credit: Jenny Moon

This FEELed Note showcases the work of FEELed Lab Research Associate and former UBC Okanagan SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow Alex Berry.   How does climate change taste? This is an inquiry that Alex Berry explored with a class of education students last Spring, as part of a research project investigating sensory pedagogies for relating to place… Continue reading Tasting Climate Change

Researchers in the FEELed! ALECC 2024

Screenshot from my presentation “Migration, Research Mobility, and Place: Learning from Water in the Contemporary Academy”, including a photo of Woodhaven National Park taken at the FEELed Lab, a photo of myself at Okanagan Lake, and an excerpt from The Syilx Water Declaration.

This FEELed Note is the first post from Tom Letcher-Nicholls, a PhD student in UBCO’s Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies program in Sustainability. His research focuses on the responsibilities, relations, and obligations of researchers on unceded territories From the 19th-22nd of June, with the support of the FEELed Lab, I attended the 2024 biennial conference of the Association… Continue reading Researchers in the FEELed! ALECC 2024

Access and Inclusion Zine-making Workshop at ALECC Conference

The zines created during the workshop.

This FEELed Note is from Emma Carey, a Master’s student in UBCO’s Interdisciplinary Sustainability program, who is also working on the Enhancing Access and Inclusion in Environmental Humanities Research Practice Project. Hello fellow FEELers! Our team has been hard at work on the Access and Inclusion project, planning, thinking, and learning about how we can be… Continue reading Access and Inclusion Zine-making Workshop at ALECC Conference