Emma Sharp

Senior Lecturer - Environmental Geography

Te Kura Matai Taiao | School of Environment

University of Auckland | Waipapa Taumata Rau

Tāmaki Makaurau | Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand

PhD (Auckland) (Enacting other foodworlds: Affective food initiatives performing a care-full politics of difference)

MSc (Auckland)

BA/BSc (Auckland/ Glasgow)

2024-29 Rutherford Discovery Fellowship, Royal Society of New Zealand

2024 UoA Delegate, Universities New Zealand - CAPE LatAm Centre of Asia-Pacific Excellence

2023 Equity Award, School of Environment, UoA

2022 University of Auckland Early Career Research Excellence Award

2022 Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence, UoA

2019 GOAT, Australasian Agrifood Research Network

Environmental politics - soil, land, contaminants, food production

Food geographies - self-determination, waste, surplus, community economies, identity politics

Care, affect, embodiment and enactive research

Diversity in knowledge systems

More-than-human relations

Environmental socio-technologies and STS

el.sharp (at) auckland.ac.nz

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