Leanna Butters

Ph.D. Candidate, Transdisciplinary Sustainability, Memorial University

lbutters@grenfell.mun.ca

Leanna is a Ph.D. student at Grenfell Campus, Memorial University in the Transdisciplinary Sustainability program. Her research interests focus on understanding how architecture, planning and policy interact with the socio-economic and environmental contexts where they are introduced. Her Ph.D. research is investigating fences as mechanisms of socio-spatial production in Canadian mining communities. She has an MA in Environmental Policy (Grenfell Campus, Memorial University) and a BA in Architectural Studies (Design) and History from the University of Toronto.    

Research Engagement

• Remote Controlled

• Quantifying Housing Needs In Western Newfoundland

Master’s Thesis

• Identifying the built space impacts of fly-in/fly-out employment-related geographical mobility in Deer Lake, Newfoundland and Labrador (Master’s Thesis)

Reports

• Butters, L., S. Jean, K. Vodden, and S. Khattab. 2017. Forum on Housing and the Mobile Workforce in Newfoundland and Labrador: Final Report. Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador.

Media

• CBC Labrador Morning: Building Senior-Friendly Spaces In Labrador City