Principal investigator
Prof. Gordon M. Hickey
Natural resource management, policy and governance — with the people who have to act on the findings.
Biography
Gordon Hickey is a Full Professor in the Department of Natural Resource Sciences at McGill University, specialising in sustainable natural resource management, policy and governance. He is the founding head of the Sustainable Futures Research Laboratory, and in 2024 was appointed Director of the Brace Water Centre at McGill.
He completed a Bachelor of Forest Science (Honours) at the University of Melbourne, a Ph.D. in Sustainable Forest Management at the University of British Columbia, and a Master of Public Administration (Executive) at the Australian and New Zealand School of Government, Monash University.
His research has been carried out in more than thirty countries across six continents, working in collaboration with the people who can use the findings: government agencies, the private sector, NGOs, and local and Indigenous communities.
Recognition
Selected awards
- 2021
- Biological Resource Management for Sustainable Agricultural Systems Research Fellowship, OECD Co-operative Research Programme, Paris
- 2019
- Fulbright Canada Visiting Research Chair, Institute for Arctic Studies, Dartmouth College, USA
- 2014–24
- William Dawson Scholar Award, McGill University
- 2014
- SUTROFOR Erasmus Mundus Scholar Scholarship, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
- 2014
- Biological Resource Management for Sustainable Agricultural Systems Research Fellowship, OECD Co-operative Research Programme, Paris
- 2011
- International Young Scientist Fellowship, Natural Science Foundation of China
- 2004
- Young Scientist Publication Award, Commonwealth Forestry Association, Oxford, UK
Beyond the department
Affiliations
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The full publication list runs from 2004 to the present. If you are writing about graduate study or a collaboration, please email gordon.hickey@mcgill.ca