Professor Jamie W Baxter, Department of Geography and Environment, Faculty of Social Science, Western University, studies social construction of risk, community responses to technological hazards, renewable energy policy, noxious facility siting, and methodology. His research focus is how communities understand and respond to environmental risk, hazard, and inequity in contested settings. He also supervises graduate research in related areas, including energy landscapes and Indigenous-owned community energy. A current institutional role includes service as SGPS Associate Vice-Provost.