Mark Vardy
Instructor, Kwantlen Polytechnic University.
Mark Vardy began a study of the social processes of assessing climate in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) while he was a research fellow with CFI (2016-2018). This project, which involves qualitative interviews with IPCC authors and ethnographic observations of the Sixth Assessment Cycle, concludes in 2022. While at CFI, he also conducted an ethnography of the near-real-time visualization of Arctic sea ice at the US National Snow and Ice Data Center. After CFI, Mark held two further postdocs. At Rice University, Houston, he researched how residents who flooded in Hurricane Harvey navigated the emotional and financial realities of rebuilding or relocating. At Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, he supported the integration of climate change adaptation and mitigation planning in municipal governments in British Columbia. In 2020, Mark joined the faculty of Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Vancouver, as a permanent member of the Criminology Department where he teaches sociological approaches to crime, deviance and justice.