Hali Healy
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Research
The Societal impacts of CSO/Academic Collaboration on Sustainability
Research
Hali Healy has just concluded her work on CEECEC, an EC-funded project for building civil society (CSO) capacity to engage in ecological economics research, based at ICTA-UAB. She co-organised the 1st International Conference on Sustainable Degrowth in Paris (April 2008), facilitating a workshop that produced the conference Declaration on Degrowth. In London (Jan 2009) she organised and chaired Rethinking Growth: Toward an International Degrowth Network. In Barcelona (March 2009) she co-facilitated a working group on new financial institutions and led another on steady state economics and degrowth at the 2nd International Conference on Sustainable Degrowth. She also led a working group on Engaging Politicians and the Media at The Steady State Economy Conference in Leeds (June 2010). Her research interests are ecological economics and political ecology, and the societal impacts of CSO-research collaboration in the context of sustainability issues.
Research
Hali Healy has just concluded her work on CEECEC, an EC-funded project for building civil society (CSO) capacity to engage in ecological economics research, based at ICTA-UAB. She co-organised the 1st International Conference on Sustainable Degrowth in Paris (April 2008), facilitating a workshop that produced the conference Declaration on Degrowth. In London (Jan 2009) she organised and chaired Rethinking Growth: Toward an International Degrowth Network. In Barcelona (March 2009) she co-facilitated a working group on new financial institutions and led another on steady state economics and degrowth at the 2nd International Conference on Sustainable Degrowth. She also led a working group on Engaging Politicians and the Media at The Steady State Economy Conference in Leeds (June 2010). Her research interests are ecological economics and political ecology, and the societal impacts of CSO-research collaboration in the context of sustainability issues.
Supervisors
First supervisor:Professor Raymond Bryant
2nd supervisor: Professor Mark Pelling
2nd supervisor: Professor Mark Pelling
Biography
Hali was born in Toronto, Canada, and raised in Wasaga Beach, Ontario, home to the “world’s longest natural freshwater beach” on the shores of Georgian Bay. She began her undergraduate studies at the University of Western Ontario before taking part in Canada World Youth (Indonesia BC 1989-90). At the end of CWY, landing in BC, Hali continued her undergrad at UBC’s dept. of Anthropology and Sociology. After obtaining her BA she moved to Japan for 5 years before relocating the UK where she obtained an MSc in Development Studies from SOAS in London, which she now calls home.
