Research
Erin Kennedy is interested in the low-carbon development and community level climate change action in China and Japan. The focus of her thesis research remains in China wherein Erin is exploring community engagement strategies that enable stakeholder involvement in planning local community level climate change action. In China Erin is based at the Tyndall Centre at Fudan University in Shanghai. Erin has an additional project in Japan wherein she is collaborating with the National Institute of Environmental Studies (NIES) to provide an analysis of stakeholder involvement in planning local community level climate change actions. Here, Erin is working to facilitate dialogue between engaged participants who represent different societal groups within the community.
With her research Erin hopes to contribute to the discussion on collaborative, participatory and network governance in the area of community level climate change resilience building, which may provide some analytical frameworks for how to involve non-public bodies.
As the field of Social Work develops Erin also hopes to contribute to the discussion and actualization of the role of social work in sustainable development and in addressing social and environmental changes.
Education
- PhD Candidate in Social Work, Lund University
- Master’s of Sociology in Chinese Society, Public Policy and Law, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
- Master’s of Social Work in Development Studies, Lund University,
- Bachelor of Arts in Family Studies, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver BC, Canada