Saori Ogura

MLA, UC Berkeley. MS, Lesley University. BA, Gakushuin University

I am a PhD student at Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy at the Faculty of Medicine, and a UBC Public Scholar. I was the recipient of the 2017 Nikon Salon Miki Jun Inspiration Award for my photographs documenting my time living in India’s Eastern Himalaya. I was also a consultant at UNESCO headquarters in Paris, where I worked on a project in East Africa, aimed to bridge between pastoralists who hold Indigenous knowledge and meteorologists who hold scientific knowledge for a better National Adaptation Policy for climate change. I hold a Bachelor of Political Studies from Gakushuin University in Japan, and a Master of Science in Ecological Leadership and Education from Lesley University in the US, as well as a Master in Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning at UC Berkeley. My doctoral research explores meaning of traditional practices and associated knowledge, and their relations to human wellbeing and planetary health.

Keywords:
Traditional Ecological Knowledge, climate change adaptation, food sovereignty, worldview, wellbeing

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Awards and Distinctions:

President’s Academic Excellence Initiative PhD Award (2020)

Faculty of Medicine Graduate Award (2020). Faculty of Medicine Graduate Award (2019)

Emerging Scholar Award (2019). Mary and David Macree Fellowship (2018). NIKON Miki Jun Photography Award (2017)

UBC Public Scholar Initiative (2017). R Howard Webster Foundation Fellowship (UBC Green College, 2017)

Nikon Salon competition Juna21 (2016). Rotary Global Grant Scholarship (2016)

UBC Faculty of Forestry Strategic Recruitment Fellowship (2016)

UC Berkeley Scott Travel Fellowship (2015)

UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design Fellowship (2013)

Academic Publications:

Rossa-Roccor, V., Sohanna, E. A., Andrade-Rivas, F., Coombe, M., Ogura, S., Super, L., & Hong, A. (2020). Scoping Review and Bibliometric Analysis of the Term “Planetary Health” in the Peer-Reviewed Literature. Frontiers in Public Health, 8: 343. DOI=10.3389/fpubh.2020.00343

Ogura, S. (2019). An arts-based approach to community documentation and revitalization of nutritious and drought-tolerant indigenous crops for climate change adaptation [abstract]. The Lancet, 3(S19).:https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(19)30162-7

Rossa-Roccor, V., Sohanna, E. A., Andrade-Rivas, F., Coombe, M., Ogura, S., Super, L., & Hong, A. (2019). Scoping Review and Bibliometric Analysis of the Term “Planetary Health” in the Peer-Reviewed Literature [abstract]. The Lancet, 3(S19).

Marnay, C., Aki, H., Hirose, K., Kwasinski, A., Ogura, S., & Shinji, T. (2015). Japan’s Pivot to Resilience: How the Microgrids Fared After the 2011 Earthquake. IEEE Power & Energy Magazine, 13(3): 44-57. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7091069/?reload=true

Community Publications:

Ogura, S. (2020). Envisioning the Future through Traditional Wisdom. Journal of architecture and building science, 2, 26.

Ogura, S. (2020). Korekara no Chikyu ni Ikiru. Shinkou to Sekai, 5, 36-41.

Ogura, S. (2019). “Front cover” and “Drawn into the life of plants”. Green College Annual Report & Society Magazine 2017-2018: 52-55.

Ogura, S. (2017). People and Plants; Sustaining Agrobiodiversity Through Art and Science in Zimbabwe. Langscape Magazine, 6(1), 37-40.

Ogura, S. (2017). Indigenous Agrobiodiversity and Climate Change. Branchlines, 28. https://issuu.com/ubcforestry/docs/bl_28.1

Ogura, S. (2014). “Front cover” and “Gallery”. HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies, 33, 2-8. https://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/himalaya/vol33/iss1/5/