
Dr Vitalie Duporge
BA, MSc, PhD
Current positions
Part-time Teacher
School of Geographical Sciences
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Research interests
My broad research interests include: grassroots and community-led environmental movements, nonformal and land-based education, justice-based transitions, and posthumanist theories
I hold a BA in Politics and Spanish from University of Nottingham (2013), an MSc in International Development from University of Bath (2017), and a PhD in Geographical Sciences from University of Bristol (2025). My doctoral research explored place-based models of socioenvironmental learning in the context of European ecovillages; looking to these sites as radical, hopeful, and yet sometimes troubled spaces for reconciling human-nonhuman relations
My other research activities have included examining experiences of eco-anxiety amongst PGR cohorts for a UKRI-funded project with Cabot Institute for the Environment, and exploring temporal learning in land-based education settings for School of Education, University of Bristol. My research draws on a rich history working with civil society initiatives and intentional communities
Aside from research, I teach extensively across the university, designing and leading lectures and seminars and/or acting as unit co-convenor on the folllowing modules:
- BSc Sustainable Development
- MSc Environmental Policy and Politics
- MSc Introduction to Educational Inquiry
- BSc Critical Political Ecologies of Extraction and Conservation
- BSc Society, Economy and Space
- BSc Historical and Cultural Geography
- BSc Key Concepts in Human Geography
- BSc Qualitative Research Methods
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Temporal Pedagogies in Land-Based Learning
Role
Researcher
Managing organisational unit
School of Geographical SciencesDates
01/08/2024 to 31/10/2024
Exploring Eco-Anxiety and Peer-Support with PGR Communities
Role
Researcher
Description
Examining experiences of ecoanxiety and peer support strategies with PGR cohortsManaging organisational unit
School of Geographical SciencesDates
01/03/2024 to 31/07/2024
Publications
Selected publications
01/01/2025'Time is Different Working with the Land'
Canadian Journal of Environmental Education
Climate Adaptation: Accounts of Resilience, Self Sufficiency and Systems Change
Climate Adaptation: Accounts of Resilience, Self Sufficiency and Systems Change
Transforming Education for Sustainable Futures: Foundations Paper (TESF)
WASS Education and Learning Sciences
Recent publications
01/01/2025Nonhuman Attunements in European Ecovillages
Intentional Communities: Theory and Practice of Communal Living
'Time is Different Working with the Land'
Canadian Journal of Environmental Education
Affects and Temporalities of Land-Based Labours
Nonhuman Care in Land-Based Labours
Matters of Care
Thesis
Ecological Hope
Supervisors
Award date
04/02/2025