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 cultural ecosystem services of urban fishers around the Laurentian 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, Inuvialuit Settlement Region, NT. She completed an Honours iBA, Trilingual, Double Major in International Studies and Canadian Studies at Glendon College, York University. When Tamara is not conducting research you can find her exploring nature or reading a book, snuggled up with her cats.

Publications

Donnelly, T., Slack, C., Wesche, S.D. et al. Retail store governance models in remote Indigenous communities across Canada: a media analysis. Agric & Food Secur 14, 23 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40066-025-00546-z.