Professor Jessica Dempsey receives 2025 Dean of Arts Mentorship Award
This award recognizes faculty members with an outstanding commitment to promoting the academic and personal growth of junior colleagues, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students, and who foster a community of integrity, inclusion and respect.
Nun ke’ Daahwéhsats: A community-university partnership advancing understanding of climate justice
Nun ke’ Daahwéhsats (Dancing with the Land) is a collaboration between West Moberly First Nations (WMFN) and the UBC Centre for Climate Justice (CCJ) that seeks to advance understanding of how climate science, policies, and solutions will affect Indigenous self-determination, cultural values, and rights.
Over half of BC mining projects do not consider their gendered impacts
These include labour equity, violence, and the disproportionate impact on Indigenous communities.
Evaded taxes could more than cover global biodiversity needs
Researchers from UBC Geography say that biodiversity targets cannot be met without debt and tax justice.
Two UBC Geography faculty receive Killam Research Fellowships
Jessica Dempsey and Siobhán McPhee are among ten recipients across both UBC campuses.
Is public money subsidising the extinction of endangered caribou?
Researchers from UBC Geography and SFU have been studying the impact of mining projects in northern BC.
What could a feminist, green, and global response to COVID-19 look like?
Any Green New Deal must be international and intersectional, say Dr. Jessica Dempsey and Dr. Rosemary Collard.
New Book from Jessica Dempsey: Enterprising Nature
Prof. Dempsey’s first book tracks the rise of a powerful idea in global biodiversity conservation.
New Assistant Professor Dr. Jessica Dempsey
The Department of Geography is excited to have Dr. Jessica Dempsey join us as Assistant Professor starting January 2016! Dr. Dempsey is also a UBC Geography alumna, having completed her MA in 2005 and PhD in 2011. She writes: “I am delighted to return to UBC Geography in January, the institutional home of my graduate training (MA […]