Resume
Education
Ph.D. Social and Ecological Sustainability
2018 University of WaterlooM.E.S. Faculty of Environmental Studies
2013 York UniversityThesis: A Systems Approach to Health, Well-Being, and the Environment: Air Pollution and Shanghai's Elderly
B.E.S. Faculty of Environmental Studies
2011 York UniversityEnvironmental Politics Stream & Minor in English
Certificates
Emerging Leader Certification
2020 McGill UniversityCourses: Leadership; Citizenship & Culture; Power; Conflict Management
Certificate in University Teaching
2018 University of WaterlooCertificate in Teaching Fundamentals
2017 University of WaterlooCertificate of Chinese Language
2013 York UniversityAcademic Employment
Research Associate
2021 - Present York UniversityKnowledge synthesis with the Ecological Footprint Project.
Editor in Chief
2020 - Present Challenges in SustainabilityAdjunct Assistant Professor
2020 - Present University of WaterlooSessional Lecturer
2019 - Present Haida Gwaii Institute, University of British ColumbiaTeaching Ecological Economics for the Social-Ecological Change program.
Postdoctoral Fellow
2018 - 2020 Economics for the Anthropocene, McGill UniversityResearch labour and local manufacturing. Also developing a research agenda for ecological economics and co-edited the book Liberty in the Anthropocene.
Course and Diploma Developer
2019 -2020 Haida Gwaii Institute, University of British ColumbiaSessional Lecturer
2017 - 2018 School of Environment, Enterprise, and Development, University of WaterlooTeaching and Learning Associate
2015 - 2016 Faculty of Environment, University of WaterlooPublications
Books
2021 – Ecological Economic Development: Reconfiguring the Sustainable Development Goals within Limits to Growth. Routledge. Forthcoming.
2019 – Liberty and the Ecological Crisis: Freedom on a Finite Planet. Routledge.
Special Magazine Issue
Peer Review Journal Articles
2020 - Kish, K. Paying Attention: big data and social advertising as barriers to ecological change. Sustainability. 12(24).
2020 - Kish, K., Hensher, M., Farley, J., Quilley, S., Zywert, K. Socio-Ecological Systems Transformation: Lessons from COVID-19. World. 2(1).
2020 – Kish, K., Davy, B.J., Murphy, S., McCarthy, D., Quilley, S. Restoration Ecology for the Anthropocene: Restoration Ethics for Restoring Adaptive Functioning in an Age of Limits. Ecology and Society. Revisions Submitted.
2020 - Kish, K. Resilient post-growth institutions. Ecology and Society. Accepted with revisions.
2020 – Kish, K., Farley, J. An Agenda for the Next 30 Years. Ecological Economics. Special issue editorial.
2020 – Kish, K., Farley, J. A Research Agenda for the Future of Ecological Economics by Emerging Scholars. Sustainability. Special issue editorial. 10:1-19.
2020 – Kish, K., Hensher, M., Farley, J., Quilley, S., Zywert, K. Open knowledge commons versus privatized gain in a fractured information ecology: lessons from COVID-19 for the future of sustainability. Global Sustainability. 3:E26.
2019 – Kish, K. The Revolution Will Be Handmade. Solutions. 10:91-96.
2018 – Kish, K. School of Thought: Trends in Environmental Education. Alternatives Journal. 43(4):66-70.
2017 – Kish, K., Quilley, S. Wicked Dilemmas of Scale and Complexity in the Politics of Degrowth. Ecological Economics. 142:306-317.
2017 – Kish, K., Quilley, S. D.I.Y.: How to Put Meaning Back Into Your Work. Alternatives Journal. 43:46-50.
2016 – Kish, K., Hawreliak, J., Quilley, S. Finding an Alternative Route: Towards an EcoCyclical and Distributed Production.Journal of Peer Production. 9:1-17.
2015 – Kish, K., Bunch, M., Xu, J. Soft Systems Methodology in Action: Environment, Health, and Shanghai’s Elderly. Systems Practice and Action Research. 29:61-77.
Book Chapters
2020 – “Work, Labour, and Regenerative Production” Sustainable Wellbeing Futures. Costanza, R., Erickson, J. D., Farley, J., Kubiszewski, I. Edward Elgar. 27-44.
2020 – “Ecological Economic Goals from Emerging Scholars” Sustainable Wellbeing Futures. Costanza, R., Erickson, J. D., Farley, J., Kubiszewski, I. Edward Elgar. 409-426.
2020 – “What About My Pineapples?: The Wicked Implications of Nonlinearity, Embedded Systems, and Transformative Social Goals” Health in the Anthropocene: Living Will on a Finite Planet. Zywert, K., Quilley, S. University of Toronto Press. 140-154.
2019 – “Reclaiming Freedom Through Prefigurative Politics” Liberty and the Ecological Crisis. Kish, K., Orr, C., Jennings, B. Routledge. 49-64.
2019 – “Introduction: The Ecological Crisis and the Future of Liberty” Liberty and the Ecological Crisis. Orr, C., Kish, K., Jennings, B. Routledge.
2019 – “The Ecological Limits of the Sustainable Development Goals” Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals: Global Governance Challenges. Dalby, S., Horton, S., Mahon, R., Thomaz, D. Routledge. 170-189.
Briefs
2020 - Burke, M., Sellers, S., Kish, K. Toward Degrowth Production. Policy Brief. Journal of Peer Production. Abstract accepted to special issue.
2020 - Kish, K., Lloyd, T., Brastaviceanum T. Scaling Open Innovation Networks to Address Global Grand Challenges. CSPS Editorial Collection. Invited.
Manuscripts Under Review
2020 - Kish, K. and Dartnell, L. Prefiguring Degrowth with Peer-to-Peer Production. Journal of Peer Production. Under Review.
2020 - Dartnell, L., and Kish, K. The Impact of COVID-19 on Consumption of Peer-to-Peer and Do-It-Yourself Products. The Journal of Sustainable Production and Consumption. Under Review.
2020 - Kish, K., Sanniti, S. A Crisis of Burden: Who bears the brunt of the low-carbon transition? Journal of Ecological Economics. Under Review.
2020 - Kish, K. Makers and a Caring Sustainable Transition. Ecological Economics. Under review.
In Preparation
2020 - Kish, K., Mallery, D. Burke, M., Larson, J., Melgar-Melgar, R., Orr, C. Sanniti, S., Smolyar, N., Yahya Haage, G. Critical systems critique of ecological economics. Ecological Economics. Writing.
2020 - Kish, K. Dimensions of Change in Complex Socio-Ecological Systems. Challenges in Sustainability. Writing.
University Teaching
HGSE:381 Ecological Economics. Faculty of Forestry, Haida Gwaii Institute (2020, 2021)
ENVR:630 From the Big Bang to the Anthropocene. Economics for the Anthropocene (2018, 2019)
Sessional Instructor
INDEV: 212 Introduction to Systems Thinking (2017)
Co-Teaching
ERS: 410 Ecosocial Systems. University of Waterloo (2018)
INDEV: 212 Introduction to Systems Thinking (2016)
ERS: 311 Introduction to Systems Thinking. University of Waterloo (2014)
Service and Community
Departmental Committees
2018 - present - Member. Leadership for the Ecozoic Leadership Committee. McGill University.
2018 - 2020 - Co-Chair. Communications and dissemination committee. Natural Resource Science, McGill University
2017 – 2018 – Student Chair. Departmental PhD Seminar Series. Waterloo Faculty of Environment.
2016 – 2018 - PhD Student Representative. Faculty Council. Faculty of Environment, University of Waterloo.
2016 – 2018 - PhD Student Representative. Teaching Excellence Committee. School of Environment, Resources, and Sustainability, University of Waterloo.
2016 – 2017 - PhD Student Representative. Departmental Graduate Committee. School of Environment, Resources, and Sustainability, University of Waterloo.
2015 – 2016 - Coordinator. Graduate Student Endowment Fund. University of Waterloo.
2014 – 2018 - Mentor. Incoming Student Support Group. University of Waterloo.
2014 – 2016 - PhD Student Representative. Faculty Council. Faculty of Environment, University of Waterloo.
Conference Organizing
2021 - Scientific Committee and Communications Coordinator. Biennial Conference. Canadian Society for Ecological Economics. Victoria, BC/Online.
2020 – Communications Coordinator. Student Symposium. Canadian Society for Ecological Economics.
2019 – Communications Coordinator. Biennial Conference. Canadian Society for Ecological Economics
2018 – Mentor. The Next 50 Years Student Symposium. Canadian Society for Ecological Economics.
2018 – Organizer. Liberty in the Anthropocene Symposium. Economics for the Anthropocene, McGill University.
2018 – Co-Organizer. Peter Victor Retirement Symposium. Economics for the Anthropocene, York University.
2018 – Chair. Student Symposium. Canadian Society for Ecological Economics.
2017 – Communications Coordinator. Biennial Conference. Canadian Society for Ecological Economics.
2016 – Reviewer. Scientific Committee. Canadian Society for Ecological Economics.
2016 – Organizer. (re)Maker Conference. University of Waterloo.
2015 – Web and Technical Coordinator. Annual Conference. International Society for Ecological Economics.
2015 – Web and Technical Coordinator. Biennial Joint Conference. Canadian and United States Societies for Ecological Economics.
2014 – 2015 - Chair and Coordinator. Faculty Festival Committee. Faculty of Environment, University of Waterloo.
Editoral
2020 - present - Reviewer. Sustainability.
2018 - present - Reviewer. Mitacs Accelerate Grant – Citizen production grant.
2018 – 2020 - Co-Guest Editor. The Next 30 Years of Ecological Economics. Journal of Ecological Economics.
2018 – 2020 - Co-Guest Editor. The Next 30 Years of Ecological Economics. Sustainability.
2016 - 2018 - Guest Editor. Ecological Economics Special Issue. Alternatives Journal.
2016 – 2018 - Publishing Associate. Alternatives Journal.
Academic Association Leadership
2019 – present - Communications Officer. Canadian Society for Ecological Economics.
2015 – 2019 - Vice-President Communications. Canadian Society for Ecological Economics.
2017 – 2018 - Membership Coordinator. Environmental Studies Association of Canada.
Membership
Canadian Society for Ecological Economics (CANSEE)
Environmental Studies Association of Canada (ESAC)
International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE)
International Society for Ecological Economics (ISEE)
International Society for Systems Science (ISSS)
Society for Ecological Restoration (SER)
Volunteer Work
2020 - present - Alumni Coordinator. Canadian Union of Public Employees. Development of a Graduate Student Union at the University of Waterloo.
2019 - present - Canine Compassion Visitations. Various Nursing Homes.
2018 - 2019 - Board of Directors. CPE Du Campus, McGill University.
2017 – present - Volunteer Science Teacher. Wellington Hall Academy.
2014 – present - Computer Lessons for the Elderly. New Futures.
2018 – 2019 - Board of Directors. CPE Du Campus, McGill University.
2015 – 2017 - Hospice Visitor. David Hoeniger.