Associate Professor
PhD, Duke University, 2009
Pronouns:
She/her
Phone:
519 824-4120 ext. 58155
Email:
Gray, Noella
Broadly, I am interested in the politics of conservation and environmental governance – in how access to natural resources is defined, contested and legitimated by resource users, experts, civil society and the state. More specifically, I consider how science is incorporated into environmental policy, the politics of scale in marine conservation, and how resource management policies are negotiated under co-management arrangements. I have studied both ecotourism and marine protected areas as examples of conservation interventions. I draw on, and contribute to, three fields of study: political ecology, common property, and science and technology studies. I welcome inquiries from potential graduate students who have overlapping interests.
My current and past research is associated with the following projects and groups:
- Collaborative Event Ethnography for the study of global conservation governance
- The Conservation through Reconciliation Partnership
- Human Dimensions of Large Marine Protected Areas
- The Nature.Culture.Politics group in Geography, Environment and Geomatics at U of G
Ongoing:
- Collaborative Event Ethnography for the study of global conservation governance, including decolonizing global conservation governance in collaboration with partners involved in the Conservation through Reconciliation Partnership
- Ocean Governance and Sustainability in the context of Small Islands
Completed:
- Human Dimensions of Large Marine Protected Areas
- Volunteer Tourism and Marine Conservation in Belize
For a complete list, please see my google scholar page.
Gray, Noella J., Catherine Corson, Lisa M. Campbell, Peter Wilshusen, Rebecca Gruby and Shannon Hagerman. 2020. Doing strong collaborative fieldwork in human geography. Geographical Review 110(1-2): 117-132
Gray, Noella J. 2018. Charted Waters? Tracking the Production of Conservation Territories on the High Seas. International Social Science Journal 68 (229-230): 257-272.
Gray, Noella J, Nathan J Bennett, Jon C Day, Rebecca L Gruby, T. Aulani Wilhelm, Patrick Christie. 2017. Human Dimensions of Large-scale Marine Protected Areas: Advancing Research and Practice. Coastal Management 45(6): 407-415.
Gray, Noella J., Alexandra Meeker, Sarah Ravensbergen, Amy Kipp, and Jocelyn Faulkner. 2017. Producing science and global citizenship? Volunteer tourism and conservation in Belize. Tourism Recreation Research 42(2): 199-211.
Gray, Noella J. 2016. The role of boundary organizations in co-management: examining the politics of knowledge integration in a marine protected area in Belize. International Journal of the Commons 10(2): 1013–1034. .
Silver, Jennifer J., Gray, Noella J., Campbell, Lisa M., Fairbanks, Luke W., Gruby, Rebecca L. 2015. Blue Economy and Competing Discourses in International Oceans Governance. Journal of Environment and Development 24(2).
Gray, Noella J., Rebecca L. Gruby and Lisa M. Campbell. 2014. Boundary Objects and Global Consensus: Scalar Narratives of Marine Conservation in the Convention on Biological Diversity. Global Environmental Politics 14(3): 64-83.
Gray, Noella J. 2010. Sea Change: Exploring the International Effort to Promote Marine Protected Areas. Conservation and Society. 8(4): 331-338.
Political Ecology, Marine Conservation, Ocean Governance, and Island Futures
I welcome inquiries from prospective graduate students (MA or PhD) who share my research interests in marine conservation governance, “blue economy” policies and impacts, and/or the science-policy interface in the context of conservation and environmental governance, particularly in islands. Please contact me directly to discuss opportunities; inquiries should include a CV/resume and brief statement of your interests.
Graduate Students Supervised
| Name | Research | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Ph.D. | Hodson, Victoria | Research Interests: Indigenous-led conservation, intersections of international & domestic conservation policy in Canada, ethical space in research, political ecology. | |
| Ph.D. + IDS | López-González, Bárbara | Research interests: political ecology, sustainability, and environmental governance in small islands. | |
| Ph.D. | Pine, Deborah | Research interests: Anishinaabe Gkendaasowin, Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Conservation | |
| Ph.D. | Wiehe, Emilie | The political ecology of marine conservation in Mauritius. | |
| M.A. | 2012 | Greenberg, Shannon | Marine biodiversity conservation and market mechanisms in the context of the Convention on Biological Diversity. |
| M.A. | 2014 | Meeker, Alexandra | Volunteer tourism for marine conservation: a force of positive change in Northern Belize |
| M.A. | 2016 | Brander, K. Georgia | Selling Conservation? The Role of Volunteer Tourism in Supporting Marine Conservation in Southern Belize. |
| M.A. | 2016 | Ravensbergen, Sarah | Marine conservation and volunteer tourism: Examining community perceptions in Sarteneja, Belize. |
| M.A. | 2017 | Kipp, Amy | Shaping the 'volunteer tourist bubble': The gendered experiences of volunteer tourists. |
| M.A. | 2017 | Mitchell, Lillian | Governing large Marine Protected Areas: Insights from the remote Phoenix Islands Protected Area |
| M.A. | 2018 | Artis, Evan | Conceptions of Ocean Space and the rise of large scale Marine Protected Areas in the South Pacific. |
| M.A. | 2020 | Faulkner, Jocelyn | Transferring Skills and Knowledge through Volunteer Tourism? Linking International Development and Critical Global Citizenship |
| M.A. | 2020 | Sparling, Abigail | An Opportunity for Policy Change? Creating New Space for Conservation through Marine 'Other Effective Area-based Conservation Measures' in Canada |