Tabitha Evans

Title: Graduate Student
Email: evans-t@webmail.uwinnipeg.ca

Degree: Master of Arts
Thesis: Transdisciplinary Knowledge Co–Production and Climate Change Mitigation
Supervisor: Dr. Ryan Bullock
Entry: Fall 2024

Research Interests:
My proposed master’s thesis research is an exploratory case study of CANSTOREnergy, one major Canadian research program’s response to climate change and energy design future. The study explores how transdisciplinary research teams co–produce knowledge of science, policy, and practice for climate change mitigation. Understanding how transdisciplinary research teams operationalize knowledge co–production in a dynamic context is important for highlighting the features involved in policy and decision–making processes. Notably, the study will confront transdisciplinarity as a means to recognize its strengths and challenges for climate change mitigation.

Biography:
In 2023, I graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Distinction) with Honours in Sociology from St. Thomas University in Fredericton, New Brunswick. Exploring my role as an environmental advocate is a notable motive behind my research and community engagement and which led me the University of Winnipeg’s (UW) Master of Arts in Environmental and Social Change (MESC) Program. During my time with the MESC program, I am most looking forward to learning how to effectively communicate from my discipline across different fields of knowledge. I also am grateful to have access to the UW Environment and Society Co–Lab, a training environment for the practice and knowledge transfer of research ideas. The experiences fostered from the program’s opportunities will be fruitful for my academic and professional growth.