Jessica Dempsey, University of British Columbia

Research

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Latest papers

Author Correction: Biodiversity targets will not be met without debt and tax justice.
Nature ecology & evolution · 2022 · first author
Biodiversity targets will not be met without debt and tax justice.
Nature ecology & evolution · 2022 · first author

All 2 publications

Latest funding

Beyond the status quo: Political economic barriers to reform and pathways for change in BC's extractive economy
SSHRC · 2025 · Principal investigator
$456,732
Tri-National Convening on Indigenous Forest-Based Carbon Offsetting
SSHRC · 2024 · Principal investigator
$44,962
The caribou paradox: a political economy of the ten percent world
SSHRC · 2020 · Co-investigator
$168,487

All 7 grants and awards

2 publications.

01

Author Correction: Biodiversity targets will not be met without debt and tax justice.

Dempsey J, Irvine-Broque A, Bigger P, Christiansen J, Muchhala B, Nelson S, Rojas-Marchini F, Shapiro-Garza E, Schuldt A, DiSilvestro A

Nature ecology & evolution2022First author

DOI: 10.1038/s41559-022-01704-3 PMID: 35181759

02

Biodiversity targets will not be met without debt and tax justice.

Dempsey J, Irvine-Broque A, Bigger P, Christiansen J, Muchhala B, Nelson S, Rojas-Marchini F, Shapiro-Garza E, Schuldt A, DiSilvestro A

Nature ecology & evolution2022First author

DOI: 10.1038/s41559-021-01619-5 PMID: 34931053

Beyond the status quo: Political economic barriers to reform and pathways for change in BC's extractive economy

Principal investigatorSSHRC2025Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Dempsey, Jessica A.

$456,732

Tri-National Convening on Indigenous Forest-Based Carbon Offsetting

Principal investigatorSSHRC2024Connection Grants

Principal investigators: Dempsey, Jessica A.

Keywords: Carbon offsetting; Indigenous stewardship; Indigenous forestry; knowledge exchange; co-learning

$44,962

The caribou paradox: a political economy of the ten percent world

Co-investigatorSSHRC2020Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Collard, Rosemary-Claire M.S.

Keywords: extinction; defaunation; endangered species; woodland caribou; political economy; feminist political economy; postcolonial studies; environmental justice; the state; capitalism; colonialism; extraction; capitalist natures; anthropocentrism

$168,487

The caribou paradox: a political economy of the ten percent world

Co-investigatorSSHRC2020Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Collard, Rosemary-Claire M.S.

Keywords: extinction; defaunation; endangered species; woodland caribou; political economy; feminist political economy; postcolonial studies; environmental justice; the state; capitalism; colonialism; extraction; capitalist natures; anthropocentrism

$87,776

The Liberal Environment: A Four-Part Documentary Radio Series

Principal investigatorSSHRC2018Connection Grants

Principal investigators: Dempsey, Jessica A.

Keywords: liberalism; environmentalism; geography; climate; documentary radio; podcast; knowledge mobilization

$48,000

Biodiversity conservation as financial asset tracing for-profit conservation finance

Principal investigatorSSHRC2018Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Dempsey, Jessica

Keywords: for-profit biodiversity finance; green capitalism; financialization; feminist political economy; biodiversity conservation; political ecology; neoliberal conservation; impact investing; environmental governance

$232,977

Feminism and capitalism: sharing interdisciplinary research and knowledge

Co-investigatorSSHRC2016Connection Grants

Principal investigators: Pratt, Geraldine J.

Keywords: political economy; social reproduction; precarious labour; political ecology; transnational feminism; decolonization; sexual division of labour; racialized capitalism; post humanism; enclosure/commons; ecological labour/work; uneven development

$24,742

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Subject: Prospective PhD student Dear Professor Dempsey, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. I read your paper "Author Correction: Biodiversity targets will not be met without debt and tax justice." (2022), and it connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your SSHRC-funded project "Beyond the status quo: Political economic barriers to reform and pathways for change in BC's extractive economy" (2025), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]