Clark Kish-Greer
Clark Kish-Greer is the MECCE Project Office’s new Administrative Coordinator. Clark completed a BSc. (Hon.) in Psychology from the University of Saskatchewan, with thesis work on metacognition. His professional background spans office administration, laboratory management, and research coordination. Previously, Clark coordinated the Undergraduate Participant Pool and managed the Cognitive Science laboratory at the University of Saskatchewan’s Psychology Department. More recently, Clark worked as an Administrative Assistant at the University of Saskatchewan Library Dean’s Office. In addition to his professional pursuits, Clark is expanding his skill set by studying accounting at Saskatchewan Polytechnic College, driven by his passion for data and analytics.
Marcia McKenzie
Marcia McKenzie is Professor in Global Studies and International Education in MGSE at the University of Melbourne, Australia; and Professor on leave at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. She is a member of the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists; and Director of the $4.5M SSHRC-funded Monitoring and Evaluating Climate Communication and Education (MECCE) Project and of the Sustainability and Education Policy Network (www.sepn.ca). Her research program includes both theoretical and applied components at the intersections of comparative and international education, global education policy research, and climate and sustainability education, including in relation to policy mobility, place, affect, and other areas of social and geographic study. She is co-author of Place in Research: Theory, Methodology, and Methods (Routledge, 2015) and Critical Education and Sociomaterial Practice: Narration, Place, and the Social (Peter Lang, 2016), and co-editor of Land Education: Rethinking Pedagogies of Place from Indigenous, Postcolonial, and Decolonizing Perspectives (Routledge, 2016) and Fields of Green: Restorying Culture, Environment, and Education (Hampton, 2009); and co-edits the Palgrave book series Studies in Education and the Environment. She has also recently authored or co-authored three global UNESCO reports, including ‘Country progress on climate change education: A review of national submissions to the UNFCCC,’ and ‘ESD and GCED up close: Cognitive, social and emotional and behavioral learning in Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship Education from pre-primary to secondary education,’ and ‘Learn for our planet: A global review of how environmental issues are integrated in education.’
Nicola Chopin
Nicola Chopin has been the Project Manager for the Sustainability and Education Policy Network (SEPN) since the Network was established in 2012. She is also the Project Manager of the Monitoring and Evaluating Climate Communication and Education (MECCE) Project and has contributed to many UNESCO and SEPN reports. She lead planning for the 2019 Annual Conference of the Canadian Network for Communication and Environmental Education (EECOM), the first national conference in Canada to focus on climate change education. She holds a Masters in Applied Social Psychology, and her work has a focus on evaluation, monitoring, and community-university partnerships. Nicola has coordinated multi-methods research in a wide variety of social science areas including climate change education, sustainability education policy, sustainability education, health science education, quality of life, poverty, homelessness, crime prevention, and community perceptions of crime. In addition to managing SEPN’s research and administration, Nicola contributes extensively to SEPN’s communications, including designing research briefs, infographics, and reports.
Partners and Collaborators
Organizations & Institutions
- • Assembly of First Nations
• Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education
• Australasian Campuses Towards Sustainability
• Australian Association for Environmental Education
• Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
• Canadian Commission for UNESCO
• Canadian Federation of Students
• Centre for Environment Education
• Centre for Sustainable Futures, Columbia University
• Climate Action Network-Réseau action climat
• Climate Outreach
• Dalhousie University
• David Suzuki Foundation
• EcoSource
• EECOM (Canadian Network for Environmental Education and Communications)
• Environment and Climate Change Canada
• Environmental Association for Universities and Colleges
• Foundation for Environmental Education
• Freie Universität Berlin
• Global Centre on Adaptation
• Global Youth Education Network
• IEA (International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement)
• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
• International Association of Universities
• International Institute for Sustainable Development
• Learning for a Sustainable Future
• Manitoba Education
• Métis National Council
• Monash University
• Mount Royal University
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
• North American Association for Environmental Education
• Rhodes University
• Rhodes University
• SaskOutdoors
• Sierra Youth Coalition
• Sulitest
• Sustainability Solutions Group
• Sustainability Victoria
• Sustainable Development Solutions Group Australia/Pacific
• SWEDESD (Swedish International Centre of Education for Sustainable Development)
• UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network
• UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization)
• UNESCO Global Education Monitoring Report
• UNESCO International Bureau of Education
• UNESCO International Institute for Information Technologies in Education
• UNESCO Mahatma Gandhi Centre
• UNESCO Office for Climate Education
• UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Secretariat)
• UNFCCC-Education, Communication and Outreach Stakeholders
• University at Albany—SUNY
• University of Cambridge
• University of Education Freiburg
• University of Melbourne
• University of Melbourne
• University of Saskatchewan
• Vancouver School Board Environmental Sustainability Audit
Academics
- Aaron Benavot, University at Albany—SUNY
- Alan Reid, Monash University
- Alex Wilson, University of Saskatchewan
- Allen Hill, Ara Institute of Canterbury
- Ann Dale, Royal Roads University
- Arjen Wals, Wageningen University
- Astrid Carrapatoso, University of Education Freiburg
- Brett Levy, University at Albany—SUNY
- Chelsea Willness, University of Calgary
- Christopher Piech, Stanford University
- Edgar González-Gaudiano, Universidad Veracruzana
- Ellen Field, Lakehead University
- Elsa Lee, University of Cambridge
- Esther Care, University of Melbourne
- Eureta Rosenberg, Rhodes University
- Gerald Fallon, University of British Columbia
- Gerhard de Haan, Freie Universität Berlin
- Heila Lotz-Sisitka, Rhodes University
- Hildegard Diemberger, University of Cambridge
- Ingrid Schudel, Rhodes University
- Inka Bormann, Freie Universität Berlin
- Jeana Krieweldt, University of Melbourne
- Jo-Anne Dillabough, University of Cambridge
- Joe Henderson, Paul Smith’s College
- John Pomeroy, University of Saskatchewan
- John Quay, University of Melbourne
- Jonas Andreasen Lysgaard, Aarhus University
- Julie McLeod, University of Melbourne
- Lausanne Olvitt, Rhodes University
- Licho López López, University of Melbourne
- Lucie Sauvé, Université du Québec à Montréal
- Marcia McKenzie, University of Saskatchewan and University of Melbourne
- Mark Rickinson, Monash University
- Maureen Reed, University of Saskatchewan
- Michael Peters, Waikato University
- Nicole Ardoin, Stanford University
- Nina Kolleck, University of Potsdam
- Oren Pizmony-Levy, Columbia University
- Patricia Bromley, Stanford University
- Paul Howard-Jones, University of Bristol
- Paul McNicholas, McMaster University
- Radhika Iyengar, Columbia Earth Institute
- Randy Haluza-DeLay, Kings University College
- Ranjan Datta, Mount Royal University
- Rob O’Donoghue, Rhodes University
- Ryan Walker, University of Saskatchewan
- Sachi Ninomiya-Lim, Tokai University
- Scott Bell, University of Saskatchewan
- Stefan Bengtsson, Uppsala University
- Susie Ho, Monash University
- Tarah Wright, Dalhousie University
- Zintle Songqwaru, Rhodes University