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Lauren Smith, PhD @lkmsmith.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Had a great @cangeographers.bsky.social panel + workshop yesterday on #Emotions and #AffectiveGeographies for #Climate #Resilience and a @csa-scs.bsky.social #EnviromentalSociology for #hope session today! Grateful to be doing this #interdisciplinary research and learning from others in many fields!

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Lauren Smith, PhD @lkmsmith.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

After an incredible UK vacation visiting family & hiking the West Highland Way, I'm off to CAG @cangeographers.bsky.social to talk about #Emotions & #Climate, and squeezing in CSA @csa-scs.bsky.social virtual talks! #Interdisciplinary #Sociology #Geography #Cemeteries #ConferenceSeason #AcademicSky

Sunny view from Comic Hill along the West Highland Way. Cloudy blue sky and hills in the distance

Shaggy highland cows in a farm field, munching on the ground.

Train tracks viewed from a bridge, lines by green shrubs and trees, with hills and clouds in the distance.

Old Scottish cemetery lined with a cobblestone ledge.

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Lauren Smith, PhD @lkmsmith.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Happy to have had the chance to talk about this topic with @raresites.bsky.social last night! We have the knowledge to be greener in #death, just as we do in life. I believe this can help us foster both climate and psychological resilience!

Dr. Smith stands in front of their presentation on sustainable death care showing a slide that states "What's available in Ontario?"

Dr. Smith at her laptop in front of her presentation slide showing Green Burial in Canada and a map of sites certified by the Green Burial Society of Canada

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Lauren Smith, PhD @lkmsmith.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

In addition to meeting representatives from BC and Ontario and sitting in on the Senate #QuestionPeriod I finally crossed paths with @elizabethemay.bsky.social! Big thanks to @sciencepolicy.ca and to all who contributed time and energy to this event!

Photo of Lauren and Green Party of Canada leader, Elizabeth May, smiling together at the Science Meets Parliament reception.

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Lauren Smith, PhD @lkmsmith.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Last week I spent 2 days with 40+ other #academics from across Canada to learn how to communicate research simply and concisely to politicians and share the importance of #science in #policy as part of #ScienceMeetsParliament. I met so many talented and kind individuals! #SMP2025 @sciencepolicy.ca

Lauren Smith, smiling, next to a poster from Science Meets Parliament displaying delegates who have research related to: "Evoloving Frontiers: Society, Climate action, and Space exploration". Lauren is featured with the subtitle: Emotions and gender in climate action

Group of academics and the Canadian Science Policy Centre team smiling in a group photo

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Lauren Smith, PhD @lkmsmith.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

As part of #congressh2025, some SEE Lab colleagues and I chatted with Dr. Kira Cooper from ESAC about our work on #climate #emotions and supporting #socialscience scholars. Happy to be able to share the conversation now! #AcademicSky @federationhss.ca @sarahwolfephd.bsky.social youtu.be/oviCbVo9Nzo

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Lauren Smith, PhD @lkmsmith.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Only a day and a half in to #AAG2025 and the dominant themes of care, queerness, and climate are so fulfilling and invigorating. I think Geographers are my people.

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Lauren Smith, PhD @lkmsmith.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Join me and The Collective for Radical Death Studies on Sundays in January for my curated Rad Death Reads! We'll discuss various angles of denied futures and, hopefully, end with some positivity for the new year. Sign up here: www.eventbrite.com/e/rdr-grievi... #deathstudies #ecogrief #futures

Instagram ad for the Collective of Radical Death Studies' January Rad Death Reads: Grieving Denied Futures, a weekly reading group that meets on Sundays in January, hosted by Dr. Lauren Smith, a postdoctoral fellow from Royal Roads University.

The weekly topics are:
1. Futures Denied? Queerness and Indigeneity
2. Dead Futures 1: Eco-Death/Eco-Grief
3. Dead Futures 2: Capitalism and the Myth of the American Dream
4. Futures Revived: Imagining and Creating a Future for Flourishing Life

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Lauren Smith, PhD @lkmsmith.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Wow - HI to all the new followers! Was it the #research themes or the #cat? 🤔

A hairless pink and grey kitten with light blue eyes peeks playfully and sleepily out of a light purple blanket. Her front paws are partly raised mid air.

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Lauren Smith, PhD @lkmsmith.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Hello! I study how emotions (from fear to awe) influence climate behaviour, to hopefully get ppl to make better choices + policy. I also like thinking about environmental work as care work, and all the related 'things' (like gender inequity) that entails. Most importantly, I have a hairless kitten

A mottled pink and grey hairless kitten looks at herself in a small mirror, pondering life's biggest questions.

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