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.
Heidi is a geographer at the University of Plymouth, currently undertaking a PhD entitled ‘Respect, responsibility and reciprocity: envisioning multi-species justice in the River Dart’. The project is focused broadly on understanding nature-society relations, with a specific focus on the concept of multi-species justice. This is a concept that emerged to develop more inclusive practices of justice that bring together the interests of all humans, non-humans (other beings like plants and animals, habitats and ecological systems) and their relationships in the contexts in which they emerge.
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 how, where and why diverse forms of inclusive justice (that decentre the human) are emerging. To achieve this, a more-than-human approach is essential, being grounded in the specific characteristics of a local context.
To be more specific, the research involves exploring how different strategies to preserve, protect, restore, conserve, and enhance the River Dart to better health emerge through care. This will help to gain an understanding of what forms of multi-species justice may look like in practice.
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)
