She also acts as co-director of the Ethics and Environment section of the Center for Research on Ethics (CRÉ) and senior editor for the interdisciplinary journal WIREs-Water. She holds a doctorate in human geography (UBC). Her research focuses on the social and environmental consequences of political-economic restructuring for water management and governance, particularly in the context of the challenges facing cities. Her research brings together the disciplines of economic and urban geography and political ecology while addressing issues related to governance, political-economic restructuring, the provision of municipal services, socio-technical networks, consumption and the links between practice and ethics. Her research has been supported by SSHRC, the FQRSC, Infrastructure Canada and the Canadian Water Network.