Pat’s research focuses on three overlapping areas:

1. the meanings that people take from their experiences visiting remote/peripheral/Polar Regions;
2. the pedagogical approaches, such as experiential learning, that help people create action from these experiences, and;
3. 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 Council of 3M Fellows
• Erasmus Mundus (EU)
• The Canadian Rural Secretariat
• Parks Canada
• Antarctica New Zealand
• New Zealand Post
• Lincoln University
• The Government of Nunavut
• 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.