Garret Richards

Garrett Richards is an assistant professor with the Environmental Policy Institute at the Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador’s Grenfell Campus. His research interests cover renewable energy, climate change (especially local-level adaptation planning), renewable energy, evidence-based policy, interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity, science-policy interfaces, knowledge mobilization, and deliberative democracy. Current projects include launching an Innovation Lab for the Environmental Policy Institute, investigating the differences in science outreach between university and government scientists, membership in the SSHRC-funded PhiLab (i.e. Philanthropy Lab) Atlantic Hub, and an emerging initiative that will engage stakeholders to identify research needs for energy planning and development in Newfoundland and Labrador.