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, Tamara, and Iliana Loupessis. 2026. Indigenous Entrepreneurship in the Canadian Cannabis Industry: A Media Analysis Explored Through Self-Determination Theory, Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences / Revue Canadienne des Sciences de l’Administration: e70076. https://doi.org/10.1002/cjas.70076.
Ramirez Prieto, M., Ostertag, S., Donnelly, T., Wolki-Ruben, C., Arey, S., Memogana, S., Slack, C., and Skinner, K. (2026) Exploring intergenerational knowledge transfer within Inuvialuit families: connecting wellbeing, food security, and climate resiliency. Front. Clim. 7:1694926. https://doi.org/10.3389/fclim.2025.1694926
Donnelly, T., Slack, C., Wesche, S.D., Peredo, A.M., & Kenny, T. A. (2025). Retail store governance models in remote Indigenous communities across Canada: a media analysis. Agriculture & Food Security. 14(23) https://doi.org/10.1186/s40066-025-00546-z
Slack, C., Donnelly, T., Wesche, S. D., & Kenny, T. A. (2025). Exploring Indigenous-informed contributions to decision-making to support improved food security in Canada: a scoping review. International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 84(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/22423982.2025.2497594
Donnelly, T. (2025). Internal Migration in the Canadian Prairies and British Columbia due to Climate Change. Contemporary Kanata: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Canadian Studies, (2). https://doi.org/10.25071/2564-4661.70
