Publications & Presentations
2024 & 2025 & 2026
Publications
Fernandes, Kim; Kaiying Lin, Cindy; & Elliott, K. (2026). A (S)Low Carbon Ethnographic Invitation. In Anne Pasek (Ed.), Low Carbon Research Methods: Making Equity and Epistemological Gains Through Decarbonising Academic Work. Goldsmiths Press.
Lakind, Alexandra; Hardy, Antoine; Miller, Liz; Elliott, Kate; & Roburn, Shirley (Co-editors), (October 2025), Care-ful Convening, Special issue 6.2, Journal of Environmental Media.
Anania, Katie; & Elliott, Kate (Interviewer). (2025). The sketch as eco-media: An interview with Katie Anania, Journal of Environmental Media, 6(2): pp. 211–217. https://doi.org/10.1386/jem_00162_7
Lakind, Alexandra; Hardy, Antoine; Miller, Liz; Elliott, Kate; & Roburn, Shirley (Co-authors). (October 2025), Care, with and against, Journal of Environmental Media., 6(2): pp. 125–-136. https://doi.org/10.1386/jem_00146_2
Presentations, Panels & Workshops
Elliott, K. (2024, July 9). “Finding our way to low-carbon thinking and doing: Sharing experiences from Anne Pasek’s Low-Carbon Research Methods Group, from the Low-Carbon Summer Institute (2022), and from ongoing Wayfinding for Restorative Methods sessions.” (Invited presenter). Presented to SFU Sustainability; organized by Kilim Park. (Virtual).
"Where does carbon lurk? Finding our way to lower carbon emissions at UBC Library." (2024, February 22 & March 1). (Invited workshop designer and facilitator; 2 virtual workshops for UBC Vancouver & UBC Okanagan library staff & faculty. Hosted by UBC librarians Sally Taylor, Elizabeth Stevenson, Helen Brown, and Mathew Vis-Dunbar.
2020 & 2021
Publications
Elliott, K. & Gutiérrez Hernández, A. (2021, October 11). “Una vida llena de otras texturas.” Presentación: historia de la creación de un carrito y su descubrimiento del planeta. Proyecto para Urbs, virus, y bits, dir. por Pablo De Soto, patrocinado por Matadero Madrid y el Instituto Mutante. [“A life filled with other textures.” Presentation: creation story of a shopping cart and its discovery of the planet.]
Elliott, K. (2021, July 18). Wildlife. Stansbury Forum. https://stansburyforum.com/2021/07/18/wildlife
Constantinou, V., Elliott, K., Kaczmarek, C., Rattle, R., & Whitelaw, S. (2020, July). People Stops: Connecting local with global through digital gardening at sister bus stops. Locative media collaborative storytelling project. Locative Media for Earthlings in a Changing World. https://cgeomap.eu/earthlings/
Huish, R. (Host). (2020, June 16). Adventures of Herbert Gro-Cart and Friends: Mobile Urban Agriculture in Vancouver—An interview with Kate Elliott. [Audio podcast episode]. Global Development Primer. https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/robert-huish/episodes/The-Adventures-of-Herbert-Gro-cart-and-Friends-Mobile-Urban-Agriculture-in-Vancouver-eb4s0s
Elliott, K., and Lane, J. (March 2020). The SFU Student Learning Commons: Maintaining Social Cohesion in a Time of Social Distancing, Canadian Writing Centres Association, 1(1). (Co-author) https://cwcaaccr.com/2020/03/20/covid-19-march-18-2020/
Presentations, Panels & Workshops
Low-Carbon Research Methods Transdisciplinary Collaborative Book Project. (2021, July 28–29). (Project co-organizer with CRC Anne Pasek; participant in “Americas” ethnographic low-carbon methods group, collaboratively writing book chapter with Kim Fernandes and Cindy Kaiying Lin).
Elliott, K. (19 July 2021). “Walk-along ethnographic research methods in urban and peri-urban spaces.” (Invited presenter). Session theme: Feminist Geographies of the City. Hosted by Melora Koepke, instructor, Geography and Gender (GEOG 387), Simon Fraser University. (Virtual)
Elliott, K. (2021, April 11). Confiscating Livelihood: Grocery carts in the lives of unhoused binners. (Presenter). Panel chair: Nick Blomley. Session: Governing belongings of the precariously housed: a critical legal geography. Association of American Geographers (AAG) Conference 2021. (Virtual)
Elliott, K. (2020, December 1). “Being There”: Reconsidering Research in 2020 and Beyond. (Invited presenter). Hosted by Rosemary-Claire Collard, instructor, Methods for Human Geographers (GEOG 603) Simon Fraser University; Instructor: Rosemary-Claire Collard. (Virtual)
Elliott, K. (2020, April 3). “Teaching in virtual spaces & celebrating collective intimacies.” (Invited guest speaker at Certificate Program in University Teaching and Learning (CPUTL). (Virtual)
Elliott, K. (2020, March 26). “La problématique des sans abri au metro Vancouver.” Presentation to HSCI 130 (Foundations of Health Science) SFU class (Instructor: Germaine Tuyisenge). (Virtual)
Elliott, K. (2020, February 25). “Looking for Hidden Value.” Invited to present my M.Urb research at SFU Centre for Dialogue’s Graduate Research for Social Justice: A Dialogue with Siila Watt-Cloutier.
2023 & 2022
Publications
Elliott, K. (2023, July 24). A Time for Un-efficiencies. Exertions. https://saw.americananthro.org/pub/un-efficiencies/release/1 Book Review: Porkopolis (Alex Blanchette), Society for the Anthropology of Work (SAW).
Lane, J., Hosseinpour Moghaddam, M., Elliott, K., & Graves, M. (2023). Care at the Centre: A Kitchen Table Autoethnography. Chapter in digital edited collection of the WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship. (Co-author)
Lane, J., Hosseinpour Moghaddam, M., Elliott, K., & Graves, M. (2022). Pandemic Luxuries: Writing Centre Care in a Precarious World. WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship. (Co-author)
Jekanowski, R., Pasek, A., & Elliott, K. (2022, January 28). The Ways We Work: Part 1, Oily Entanglements. Historians for Future. (Co-author) https://niche-canada.org/2022/04/06/the-ways-we-work-oily-entanglements/
Presentations, Panels & Workshops
Elliott, K. “Where does carbon lurk?” (2023, 24–25 October) International Association of Aquatic & Marine Science Libraries & Information Centers (IAMSLIC) Conference 2023. Invited to create and facilitate 2 workshops and provided follow-up summary report to IAMSLIC based on participant responses during sessions. (Virtual)
Lakind, A., & Elliott, K. (2023, June 22). “Low-Carbon Methods to Foster Human and More-than-Human Restoration.” Society for Community Research & Action (SCRA) Conference 2023, Atlanta, GA. (Virtual workshop co-presenter at hybrid conference)
Lane, J., Hosseinpour Moghaddam, M., Elliott, K., & Graves, M. (2023, May 25). Care at the Centre: A Kitchen Table Conversation. (Co-presenter). Canadian Writing Centres Association / Association canadienne des centres de redaction (CWCA/ACCR) Conference 2023. (Virtual)
“Object Biography” session. (2023, March 30). GloBio Reading Group. (Invited facilitator). Selected readings: Tret’iakov (2006) & Humphries & Smith (2014). Hosts: Laura Almagor & Haakon Ikonomou.
“Feminist Geography and Emergency Methods: qualitative, participatory, and digital research methods during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic.” (2023, March 25). (Invited panelist). Session theme: Toward More Just Geographies. Session chair & organizer: Mantha Katsikana. (Virtual)
Elliott, K. (2022, November 17). “Wayfinding for Restorative Methods: Library Version” (Invited workshop facilitator). Keeping it ReAL (Provincial library conference hosted by SFU). (Virtual)
Elliott, K. (2022, Nov 16). Low-Carbon Research Methods Workshop: Wayfinding for Restorative Methods. (Invited presenter and discussion facilitator). Helsinki Environmental Humanities month, hosted by Inna Sukhenko & Viktor Pal. (Virtual)
Elliott, K. & Lakind, A. (2022, Sept 30). Wayfinding for Restorative Methods: Experiences from the Low-Carbon Summer Institute. (Co-Presenter & panelist). Academic Activism and Low-Carbon Research (international workshop) organized by Antoine Hardy and Anne Pasek. (Virtual)
Lakind, A., & Elliott, K. (2022, July–August). Low-Carbon Research Methods Summer Institute (Project co-creator & co-facilitator). 2 workshops and 25 guided reflections (“Low-Carbon Office Hours”) helped scholars, artists, and activists identify carbon and ways to lower it in their everyday work. Supported by fellowship through Canada Research Chair (CRC) Anne Pasek’s Low-Carbon Research Methods Group.
Elliott, K. (24 June 2022). During this twilight hour that we spend together: Using virtual spaces as a low-carbon option for multi-sited collaborative storytelling. SFU Sustainability & Climate Solutions Student Research Day. (Virtual presentation at hybrid event)
Elliott, K. (2022, May 31). Using virtual spaces for multi-sited collaborative storytelling. (Presenter & Session Chair). Session: Critical Geographies: Gender and Race, Canadian Association of Geographers / Association canadienne des géographes (CAG-ACG) 2022. (Virtual)
Hosseinpour Moghaddam, M., Elliott, K., & Lane, J. (2022, May 22). Be the Health: The Virtual Turn as a Healthy Opportunity for Learning Commons Practices. (Co-presenter). CWCA/ACCR Conference 2022. (Virtual)
Elliott, K. (2022, March 17). "If I had a Tardis: How an Urban Observatory & citizen participation could have facilitated sewage treatment implementation in Vancouver Island's CRD." Presentation adjudicated by Dr. Jorge Tejada at Wessex Institute of Technology (WIT) Workshop on Urban Observatories.
Fernandes, K., Kaiying Lin, C., & Elliott, K. (2022, February 11). Low Carbon Ethnographic Research Methods. (Co-presenter; showcase co-organizer). Low Carbon Research Methods Showcase. (Virtual)
2018 & 2019
Publications
Elliott, Kate. Thesis research completed Masters of Urban Studies, Simon Fraser University (August, 2019). Tools of the Trade: How tool selection increases challenges in the work of binners in North-Central Surrey.
Place + Space Collective. (Spring 2019). Episode 5: Activism Part 2. Decolonizing Academia and Scholarly Activism Acadammit. (Role: Moderator) https://www.societyandspace.org/articles/acadammit-using-collective-podcasting-to-build-solidarity-in-academia
Ferguson, Gretchen & Elliott, Kate. (October, 2018). Program Evaluation: Surrey Housing First Collaborative. Simon Fraser University Surrey.
Presentations, Panels & Workshops
Canadian Committee on Labour History (CCLH) Roundtable: Working in the Neoliberal University. (2019, June 2). AUUC (Ukrainian Cultural Centre), Vancouver, BC. (Panelist).
Lane, J., Goldrick-Jones, A., & Elliott, K. (2019, May 31). The Multiple Possibilities of Self-Governing Student Writing Groups. (Co-presenter.) CWCA/ACCR Conference 2019, Emily Carr University of Art & Design, Vancouver, BC.
Gravestock, K., & Elliott, K. (2019, May 3). Water’s Form and Function in the Contested Space of the Shopping Mall. (Co-presenter). Conference paper and panel discussion at the British Columbia Political Studies Association (BCPSA) 2019 Conference, Langara College, Vancouver, BC.
Abstract: How do public/private spaces transform water? If water is a universally recognized amenity, at what point does it become a commodity? In the City of Vancouver, safe drinking water is widely available in our homes. According to the City of Vancouver website, Metro Vancouver provides over 500 public drinking fountains. What about the provision of water in malls? To what extent is water commodified in contested spaces such as malls? Although this question seems insignificant in light of the unresolved access to safe drinking water in so many of Canada’s Indigenous communities, the question of water as an amenity in spaces where humans spend time is an important one. Vulnerable populations (seniors, homeless people) are encouraged by health professionals to seek shelter in malls from extreme weather events. Malls are private spaces (owned by corporations), yet function as public spaces and are often used in unintended ways. We conducted a water audit at four different malls in the City of Vancouver to examine the free availability of drinking water. We selected the malls based on consumers of different income types. Water is a universal human right, but is it universally available in these spaces of consumption?
Cart-ographies Research 2019
Elliott, Kate. (2019). Poster for Public Policy and Urban Studies Research Fair. Hosted by Simon Fraser University.
1991
Honours dissertation Comparative Romance Linguistics
Dissertation research for BA Honours, University of British Columbia (1991)
“Une étude comparative de l’onomatopée — les cris d’animaux — dans des langues romanes”
Research Methods:
lexicographical research (gathering onomatopoeia examples to compare)
comparative phonetic analysis, including sound and rhythm of same-meaning words in different Romance languages