Lauren Smith, PhD

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SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow; Associate Faculty @ RRU Climate, emotions, behaviour change, gender, planetary (and death) care She/They 🌈🍁

Sunny view from Comic Hill along the West Highland Way. Cloudy blue sky and hills in the distance
Dr. Smith stands in front of their presentation on sustainable death care showing a slide that states "What's available in Ontario?"
Photo of Lauren and Green Party of Canada leader, Elizabeth May, smiling together at the Science Meets Parliament reception.
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
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
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.
A mottled pink and grey hairless kitten looks at herself in a small mirror, pondering life's biggest questions.