Mark Stoddart Email and Phone Number

Professor Stoddart's research, teaching, and student supervision orients around eco-politics, social movements, and environmental governance in relation to climate change, oil and energy, and tourism development. He is a member of the Royal Society of Canada College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists. He is the 2024 recipient of the Memorial University Faculty of HSS Dean's Award for Distinguished scholarship.Professor Stoddart led the SSHRC-funded research project, "The Oil-Tourism Interface and Social Ecological Change in the North Atlantic." This project examines connections and eco-political tensions between offshore oil and nature-oriented tourism as forms of social-ecological development and environmental governance at sites across the North Atlantic: Denmark, Iceland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Norway, and Scotland. The book based on this project, "Industrial Development and Eco-Tourisms: Can Oil-Extraction and Nature Conservation Co-Exist" is available from Springer (co-authored with Alice Mattoni and John McLevey). He is also co-lead of the Canadian team of COMPON (COMParing climate change POlicy Networks), which is a large team international comparative project that examines climate change policy networks, media discourse networks, and the connections between political and media arenas of climate policy and public debate.He is co-investigator of the ongoing SSHRC-funded research project, Meaningful Stakeholder Engagement in Resource-Rich Communities: Comparative Cases from the Global South and High North (PI: Nathan Andrews). This international comparative project examines what constitutes meaningful community engagement in research extractive sectors (oil & gas, mining), drawing insights from comparative research on Canada, Chile, Ghana, and Norway.Professor Stoddart is also involved in several work packages of the Ocean Frontier Institute large-team interdisciplinary project, Future Ocean and Coastal Infrastructures (FOCI): Designing Safe, Sustainable and Inclusive Coastal Communities and Industries for Atlantic Canada. Professor Stoddart completed his PhD at the University of British Columbia in 2008. He held a Killam postdoctoral fellowship at Dalhousie University (2009-2010) and has been working in the Sociology Department at Memorial University since 2010.