Neil Ever Osborne is an Assistant Professor in the School of the Environment at Trent University.

His teaching ethos centres on building a bridge from the classroom to the real world while delivering experiential multimedia lectures that invite students to bear witness to the precarious relationship between people and the planet.

Osborne contends it is crucial for his students to develop a set of core competencies that extend beyond academic proficiency. These include narrative intuition, transmedia acumen, and emotional intelligence, or what he thinks of as cultivated skills that can be used in broader communication endeavours such as social media, public speaking, writing, photography, and filmmaking.

Finally, Osborne maintains a very active research program concerned with the above mentioned problems and solutions; students interested in working on related projects should get directly in touch via email.

• 2024 | The Award for Educational Leadership and Innovation – Trent University [Nomination]
• 2024 | The Award for Excellence in Online Teaching – Trent University [Nomination]
• 2024 | The Decanal Award for Teaching Excellence – Trent University [Nomination]
• 2024 | The Symons Award for Excellence in Teaching – Trent University [Nomination]
• 2023 | The Decanal Award for Teaching Excellence – Trent University [Nomination]
• 2023 | The Symons Award for Excellence in Teaching – Trent University [Nomination]
• 2023 | The Explorer’s Club 50 with Rolex [Nomination]
• 2020 | Clean50 – Education & Thought Leadership [Nomination]

• Ph.D. in Environmental Studies | Faculty of Environmental & Urban Change | York University
• M.A. in Visual Communication | School of Visual Communication | Ohio University
• B.Sc. in Biology (Specialization in Conservation) | School of the Environment | Trent University

• ERSC-1010: Environmental Science & Sustainability
• ERST-2100: Environmental Science & Politics
• COMM-3002: Media Relations [Durham Campus]
• ERST-3501: Environment & Communication: Oral & Visual Presentation
• ERST-3502: Climate & Environmental Communications [Online]

• GEOG-1030: Human Geography in Global Context | Trent University
• ERST-4802: Greening Campus Environment | Trent University
• BIO-7N: Introduction to Conservation Photography | Stanford University
• LIFES-3Z03: Visual Communication in the Environmental Arena | McMaster University
• ENSC-480: Visual Communication in the Environmental Arena | Queen’s University

NEW PROGRAM OFFERING AT TRENT UNIVERSITY

Help tell solution stories to tackle the greatest challenge of our time: The climate emergency

Stories are the way people make sense of the world. And we have reached a moment in history when there are innumerable stories to tell about climate change and its impact on people and the planet.

Yet, we need more storytellers.

Leveraging Trent’s academic and research strengths in arts-based and environmental education, this new program offering in Climate Communication blends courses across disciplines to teach you a new storytelling approach that examines how to better understand media’s effect on audiences’ morals, values, and behaviours.

Equipped with this knowledge, this new offering at Trent University aims to use more effective climate change communications and visual storytelling to foster a more sustainable and equitable world where our collective well-being is at the heart.

For more information on this exciting new educational experience, please contact National Geographic Explorer Neil Ever Osborne at neilosborne@trentu.ca.