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Barbara Neis

Barbara Neis is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, Memorial Univeristy. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in 1988. She has researched many aspects of the Newfoundland and Labrador fisheries and has begun linking that research with international fisheries-related developments. Her current areas of research include the health impacts of restructuring in the Newfoundland and Labrador fisheries (funded by Health Canada and by the National Network on Environments and Women's Health) and local ecological knowledge and science (funded by Eco-Research and SSHRC projects). She recieved Memorial University's President's Award for Outstanding Research in 1998. 

Books by Barbara Neis

Families, Mobility, and Work

edited by Barbara Neis, Nora Spinks & Christina Murray

Making and Moving Knowledge

Interdisciplinary and Community-based Research in a World on the Edge

by (author) John Sutton Lutz & Barbara Neis

Finding Our Sea Legs

Linking Fishery People and Their Knowledge with Science and Management

edited by Barbara Neis & Lawrence Felt

Their Lives and Times

edited by Carmelita McGrath, Barbara Neis & Marilyn Porter

Invisible

Issues in Women's Occupational Health

edited by Karen Messing, Barbara Neis & Lucie Dumais