Cheyenne Kammerer
MA Candidate: Thesis Option
Queen's University
Global Development Studies
Research Interests
My research interests are geared toward sustainable development and global health. I come from a background in Biology. This interdisciplinary background has provided me with a multifaceted lens that considers development in a holistic way. My goal is to look at global health with biological and social sciences in mind, examining how the two are connected and how they impact one another through the frameworks of embodiment and ecosocoial theory. My current research project is focused on investigating the impacts of aquaculture as an adaptation to the environmental degradation caused by hydropower dams in Thailand. Current practices allow communities to be disproportionately affected as we accelerate into the Anthropocene and face the challenges of climate change. I intend to evaluate different sustainable processes that can lessen this effect in a resilient way and the impacts of aquaculture on the communities' physical and mental wellbeing.