“Unintended Consequences – Environmental Health and Environmental Justice Knowledge” is an Environmental Humanities doctoral project for the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies Sustainability Theme at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan.
Dr. Stephenie Hendricks is the Project Lead; Dr. Greg Garrard is Principal Investigator.
Scholarly Personal Narrative (SPN) methodology was used, meaning stories, including Stephenie’s, are used as data, anchoring to larger themes.
This curriculum on environmental health and environmental justice is offered as an Open Education Resource (OER). No financial gain is being realized from this project.
It was Greg Garrad who suggested the idea of doing an OER curriculum. While taking Dr. Miles Throgood’s digital methodology course, the idea of using a podcast as a way of delivering the research emerged and was solidified when Stephenie worked on a teaching team with Dr. Lindsay Harris, who deployed innovative teaching strategies during the pandemic.
Many thanks to Dr. Susan Murch, Acting Department Head; Coordinator, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Graduate Program; Canada Research Chair, Natural Products Chemistry at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan for her solid guidance, and former BBC senior editorial advisor Kim Thomas for her crucial feedback and support on podcast scripts, production, and beneficial insights. Kelly Hendricks is the artist who wove our interviews and other audio elements together. Grae King, Geraldine Eliot, Dan Bashaw and the Pathwise Solutions team have been instrumental in bringing this vision into reality,

Stephenie came to this work after beginning a new career with post-secondary students at Dominican University of California, where she taught digital journalism and social justice communications. Previously, she worked as a communications specialist with many of the individuals you hear in these podcasts working on environmental health and environmental justice. Her first careers were in radio and television journalism. She is the author of Divine Destruction: Dominion Theology and American Environmental Policy (Melville House 2005).
Unintended Consequences: Environmental Health and Environmental Justice Knowledge
© 2024 by Stephenie Hendricks is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Note: While this project holds a Creative Commons license, it may not be used for explicitly commercial purposes. While individual modules and elements maybe used separately, the podcasts and unique module essays may not be used for derivative purposes unless with explicit permission. Contact Stephenie Hendricks for more information. eh.ej.oer@gmail.com.