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Awards and recognition
Geography professor recognized for her positive impact on student learning with SFU Excellence in Teaching Award
In recognition of her commitment to fostering a supportive and engaging learning environment, Rosemary-Claire Collard, associate professor in the Department of Geography, is a 2024 recipient of an SFU Excellence in Teaching Award.
These awards are given to outstanding educators at SFU who inspire and facilitate learning in ways that have a lasting, positive influence on students.
“The classroom environment that Rosemary cultivates is inclusive and accessible,” a student nominator shares. “[She] is always receptive to feedback about her teaching…a wonderful active listener and I always feel ‘heard’ when talking with her.”
Not only is Collard an advocate for undergraduate involvement in research, but she also encourages her students to get involved in academic contests and speaking opportunities.
And when students are interested in pursuing graduate studies, she is always there to offer advice.
Student nominators also cite her thoughtful and personalized assignment feedback, and a teaching approach that offers a flexible learning experience, with multiple outlets for students to participate in class discussions and project parameters that leave room for incorporating their individual skills and interests.
Collard is co-director of The Extinction Paradox, a research program collaboration between Simon Fraser University and the University of British Columbia (UBC).
She holds a PhD and an MA in geography from UBC and a BA Honours in geography and environmental studies from the University of Victoria.
Her research focuses on the political economy of environmental change, specifically the drivers behind dwindling wildlife populations and endangered and extinct species.
She is the author of Animal Traffic: Lively Capital in the Global Exotic Pet Trade (2020, Duke University Press) and co-editor of Critical animal geographies: Politics, intersections and hierarchies in a multispecies world (2015, Routledge).