Deb Cleland
Deb Cleland is a Post-Doctoral Fellow working with Valerie Braithwaite on the project Regulation and Social Capital. Valerie and Deb are looking at how individuals and institutions can build social capital to improve regulation, quality of life and citizen engagement in our democracy.
Combining her background in human ecology and interest in creative research approaches, Deb is working out how to create playful pathways to participation (as well as how to best incorporate dreadful alliteration into website biographies). This interest came out of her work using computer and board games for science communication and to encourage the sustainable management of small-scale fisheries in the Philippines.
She blogs on occasion at www.onefishtofish.com and tweets from @debisda.
Highlight publications
Cleland, Deborah (2017) [Fishing for a career: alternative livelihoods and the hardheaded art of academic failure] (https://workingclassstudiesjournal.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/jwcs-vol-...), Journal of Working Class Studies 2(2): 148-160 (special edition on Academic Poverty)
Cleland, Deborah (2017) A playful shift: field-based experimental games offer insight into capacity reduction in small-scale fisheries, Ocean and Coastal Management, 144: 129-137
Cleland, Deborah (2017) Viable metaphors: the art of participatory modelling for communicating sustainability science. Knowledge Management for Development Journal 13(1): 39-55
Research interests
Research and institutional ethics
Democracy and inclusion
Qualitative, creative, participatory and interdisciplinary research methodology
Sustainability and environmental governance
Environmental justice
