Heather's interests are in policy analysis broadly, with a primary focus on urban environmental policy and particularly research in minority-based environmental injustice. Her coauthored book Urban Environmental Policy Analysis (Campbell & Corley, 2012), was called a “Rosetta stone” for its ability to communicate across urban disciplines. Her coauthored research in Rethinking Environmental Justice in Sustainable Cities: Insights from Agent-Based Modeling (Campbell, Kim, & Eckerd, 2015) goes beyond documenting environmental injustice to understanding the urban conditions under which it emerges and how it might be reduced. Their forthcoming book, Green Gentrification and Environmental Injustice: A Complexity Approach to Policy (Campbell, Eckerd, & Kim, October 2024) examines concerns with whether greening under-resourced communities may drive out the intended recipients, and policy approaches to reduce the likelihood of such outcomes. Heather is very much looking forward to collaborating across disciplinary boundaries with faculty and students in the Arts on issues of urban sustainability.

Also, Fahd has had the privilege of addressing national and international audiences at prominent conferences and events within the architectural industry, as well as entrepreneurship, spanning locations as diverse as Hawaii, Berlin, London, Gran Canaria, Bahrain, Burundi, Algeria, and numerous cities throughout Egypt. Furthermore, his qualifications led to his appointment as a visiting lecturer at The AAST Graduate School of Business.

Since 2015, Fahd has taught over 2,300 undergraduate architecture students and mentored more than 240 postgraduate researchers in the fields of architecture and business administration. He has also led and contributed to various training programs, workshops and events, impacting over 22,000 students, entrepreneurs and diverse segments of society.

Moreover, fueled by an unwavering passion and curiosity for scientific research, Fahd actively seeks out collaborative opportunities with a multicultural and interdisciplinary team of researchers, focusing on producing impactful research for societal and environmental improvement.

His current research project, “Feeling Climate Change: Energy Ethics and Climate Affects in France,” is an ethnographic study of social mobilisations and non-governmental organizations working on the energy transition in French urban climate politics. It expands upon more than a decade of research, including his doctoral dissertation, which was nominated for the Canadian Association for Graduate Studies-ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award. His larger book project based on this work, "Possibility in an era of climate change: ethics, feelings and energy futures," examines how science and politics are brought together to meet the challenges and possibilities of climate change.

Adam is a member of the Executive Committee of the Climate Change Interest Group of the American Anthropological Association and an Affiliate Member of the Centre for Energy Ethics at the University of St Andrews. Before coming to Ottawa, he was Senior Research Associate at the University of Calgary School of Public Policy. He has an MA and PhD in anthropology from McGill University and a BA in Anthropology, French, Environmental & Indigenous Studies from The Evergreen State College.

In his free time, he likes to exercise, bike commute, listen to and play music and imagine better worlds through play and organizing.

Urbanization is a revolution in the order of existence, one that affects all aspects of human life: geographical, biological, historical, economic and social. It causes transformations in lifestyles and even reconfigures cultures, affecting the ability of human beings to tell stories and formulate narratives about their experiences. In his view, urbanization is indeed the crucible in which the contemporary world is forged. At the turn of the 2010s, he observed that global urbanization was both producing spectacularly powerful effects and increasing the vulnerability of human settlements. This observation led to his current reflection on urbanization as a vector of the great Anthropocene acceleration, beginning in the 1950s.

An internationally recognized expert in the field of theoretical geography and urban studies, Michel Lussault has authored over 120 scientific articles and books published in French, English, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese since 1990. A sought-after speaker, he has been invited to numerous international research symposia, and to conferences hosted by universities in France, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Japan, Brazil, Argentina, the USA and Canada.