Dr Vitalie S Duporge

I am a political ecologist with expertise in community-led environmental movements and nonformal land-based education models as responses to socioenvironmental transition in both rural and urban contexts. As my primary case study of interest, I hold substantial experience researching the European ecovillage network using qualitative methods; looking to these sites as radical, hopeful, and yet sometimes troubled spaces for reconciling human and more-than-human relations. My book titled 'European Ecovillages: Crisis, Hope and the Politics of Transition' will be published with Bristol University Press (BUP) in 2027.

My broader research activities have included examining experiences of eco-anxiety amongst postgraduate students for a UKRI-funded project with Cabot Institute for the Environment and the  temporal pedagogies that emerge through immersive land connection for School of Education, University of Bristol.

Aside from research, I teach extensively across the university, acting as unit convenor and/or designing and leading lectures on the folllowing modules:

• BSc Sustainable Development
• BSc Geographies of Work and Employment
• MSc Environmental Policy and Politics
• BSc Geography Past, Present and Future
• BSc Key Concepts in Human Geography
• BSc Qualitative Research Methods

Both my research and teaching draw on a rich history of involvement in civil society initiatives and go beyond technocratic visions of sustainability to foreground relationality and care. I am an active member of the  Global Ecovillage Network (GEN) Research Circle and Intentional Communities Research Network.