Wearn Lecture: Dr. Max Liboiron "Being A Scientist Means Taking Sides"

Dr. Max Liboiron (Michif-settler, they/them) is a Professor in Geography at Memorial University of Newfoundland, where they direct the Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research (CLEAR). CLEAR develops feminist and anti-colonial methodologies in the natural sciences that foreground land relations to study plastic pollution.

Dr. Liboiron has played leading roles in the establishment of the field of Discard Studies (the social study of waste and wasting), the Global Open Science Hardware Movement (GOSH), and is a figure in feminist science studies, Indigenous science and technology studies, and justice-oriented science methods.