Pat’s research focuses on three overlapping areas:
- the meanings that people take from their experiences visiting remote/peripheral/Polar Regions;
- the pedagogical approaches, such as experiential learning, that help people create action from these experiences, and;
- the linkages to global sustainability challenges that result when people change their values and behaviours.
Past projects have been funded by agencies such as:
- The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
- The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Cape Breton University
- The Norwegian Centre for International Cooperation in Education (SIU)
- The University of Northern British Columbia
- The Lawson Foundation
- The Council of 3M Fellows
- Erasmus Mundus (EU)
- The Nordic Council of Ministers (Nordregio)
- The Canadian Rural Secretariat
- Parks Canada
- The Nova Scotia Department of Communities, Culture and Heritage
- Antarctica New Zealand
- New Zealand Post
- Lincoln University
- The Government of Nunavut
- The Kingdom of Denmark
- The City of Fort St. John (Northern BC)
- Go2: The Tourism Human Resources Society
- Aboriginal Business Canada (Industry Canada)
- The Department of Conservation (New Zealand)
- The British Columbia Ministry of Environment
Further details of my research can be found on LinkedIn, Research Gate, Academia, and Google Scholar.