Using Research Blogs to Combine Community and Capacity Building in the FEELed Lab

Julia Jungis the current FEELed Lab Administrator and a PhD student in Sustainability at UBC Okanagan. With a background in marine and freshwater biology and visual participatory methods, deir research centres around relationship formation in transdisciplinary collaborations. In deir PhD research, Julia will be exploring the potential of polyamorous thinking to support transdisciplinary collaborations in ocean science and marine conservation with the hope of co-creating more holistic, reflective, and ethical ways of working together.

Manuela Rosso Brugnach is a PhD student in Sustainability and FEELed Lab Research Affiliate at UBC Okanagan exploring human-water relationships through sustainability, language, and art practices. With a transdisciplinary background in Performance and Conceptual Art Practice, a Master of Philosophy in Gender and Women's Studies, and shaped by migration, her research uses translingual, creative, and collective methods to explore how imagination can open generative ways of being and living with water.

Christian Wiewelhove is a master’s student in Sustainability at UBC Okanagan, exploring the effect of climate change and human disturbances on predator-prey dynamics through math. Combining his knowledge of forestry and computer science, he uses mathematical equations and numerical simulations to investigate how wildfires and clear cuts influence the relationship of squirrels and goshawks.