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History of Centre for Land, Environment and People (LEaP)
Centre for Land, Environment and People (LEaP)
For current LEaP operations and research areas, see here.
About LEaP
LEaP is based in the Faculty of Environment, Society and Design at Lincoln University and draws on the unique range of disciplines that combine scholarly understanding, critique, creativity and problem solving. As such it also integrates expertise and knowledge from other Faculties, currently grouped into nine Research Themes.
The mission statement of LEaP is:
A network for creating and sharing knowledge.
Partnerships are essential to further research and to address global and local issues. LEaP is building on existing networks and aspires to create new links, both between research organisations and research providers and users.
Strategic goals
1. Undertake high quality interdisciplinary theoretical and applied research and critique of the changing relationships within and between society and the environment.
2. Promote stewardship, health and wellbeing of the environment, society and its diverse cultures, through our educational and research activities.
Structure
LEaP Director: Dr Shannon Page
LEaP Deputy Director: Professor Simon Swaffield
Administrator: Michelle Collings
Research undertaken within LEaP can be accessed by Research Themes
Disclaimer
LEaP provides independent scholarly critique in the areas of expertise expressed in the research themes. The links and documents on the LEaP website have been compiled to encourage open debate, and to share and create new knowledge.
The material available on this site is the responsibility of the individual author or authors and does not necessarily represent the views of other LEaP researchers or Lincoln University. Links connecting this site with other sites do not necessarily mean that LEaP endorses or approves those other sites, their content or the people who run them.
© Lincoln University. All rights reserved. When using information from this site, due acknowledgement is requested.
Partnerships
Partnerships are critically important to share, generate and disseminate knowledge. LEaP maintains close links with research institutions, individual researchers, industry partners and government organisations in New Zealand and internationally to ensure high quality, connectedness and uptake of research results.
Within each theme we will specify our relationships as:
Research partners: Research organisations with whom we maintain a Memorandum of Understanding or have other long-term contractual arrangements.
Associate organisations: External partners with whom we work regularly and closely.
Within Lincoln University, LEaP is connected to:
- Isaac Centre for Nature Conservation
- International Rural Development
- Agribusiness and Economics Research Unit
LEaP Fellows:
LEaP Fellows are selected individuals with whom we have an ongoing academic relationship based on common projects, publications or other activities of mutual benefit to LEaP and the Fellow's home organisation. The LEaP Fellows at present are:
- Dr Dianne Draper, University of Calgary, Canada
- Dr Nick Draper, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
- Dr John Hellemans, Sports Medicine Practitioner, Christchurch, New Zealand
- Assoc Prof Paul Jonson, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
- Robert Makgill, Barrister, Auckland, New Zealand
- Prof A.J.(Tony) Veal, Sport and Tourism University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
- Professor Makoto Yokohari, The University of Tokyo, Japan
- Professor Jorgen Primdahl, Copenhagen University, Denmark
- Dr Jurgen Breuste, Paris-London University, Salzburg, Austria
- Dr Sarel Cilliers, Northrthwest University, Potchefstroom, South Africa
- Dr. Jackie Dawson, University of Guelph, Canada
- Alan Hart, Petroleum Geologist, New Zealand
- Dr. Margaret Johnston, Lakehead University, Ontario
- Dr. Daniel Scott, University of Waterloo, Canada
- Dr. Inga Smith, Otago University, New Zealand
- Dr. Lars Brabyn, Waikato University, New Zealand
- Dr. Roger White, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
- Dr. Janet Brown, Institute of Aquaculture, Stirling University, Scotland
- Prof Harold Goodwin, The International Centre for Responsible Tourism, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK
- Dr. Stefan Gossling, Lund Universitet, Sweden
- Dr. Bernard Lane, Red Kite Environment, Editor of Journal of Sustainable Tourism, UK
- Dr. Graham Miller, Surrey University, UK
- Dr. Jan Wisangsing, Assumption University Bangkok, Thailand
- Dr Raynald Harvey Lemelin, Lakehead University, Ontario
Research themes
There are currently nine research themes within LEaP. All of these themes are interdisciplinary in nature and benefit from the input from a wide range of experts with different backgrounds. The themes are also inter-related and exchange between themes is essential. These links will be made explicit in the individual theme areas. Research in each theme contributes to cross-cutting Outcome Areas. You can access these in the right hand column.
The nine themes are: