Sept 2025 – present
Tamara Donnelly (she/her) is an interdisciplinary researcher and PhD student in Biology at Carleton University, supervised by Dr. Vivian Nguyen on the provisioning fisheries project. Her research explores the intersections of food security, well-being, and climate change and their impacts on provisioning fishers around the Great Lakes. Tamara holds an MA in International Development and Globalization from the University of Ottawa, where her thesis focused on retail food environments in the Canadian Arctic using community-based participatory research in Paulatuk, NWT. She developed a framework to describe the role of retail food systems in Indigenous communities and their links to social, emotional, and physical health. She completed an Honours iBA, Trilingual, Double Major in International Studies and Canadian Studies at Glendon College, York University. Tamara has held multiple RA positions working on Indigenous food systems, traditional ecological knowledge, and climate adaptation. Tamara is excited to be apart of the Social Ecology Lab and cannot wait to continue researching unique food systems in North America.
