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Public Administration

Dr. Katya Rhodes

Image of Dr. Katya Rhoades on the university campus

Associate professor

Public Administration

Status:
On leave until July 2026
Contact:
Office: HSD A314
ORCID:
Credentials:
PhD (SFU), MSc, BA with Honours
Area(s) of expertise:
Climate policy, climate obstruction, political economy, energy economics
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About

Dr. Katya Rhodes is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Administration, Associate Member of the Department of Psychology, and Member of the Institute for Integrated Energy Systems at the 探花系列. She leads the , studying low-carbon transitions and climate policy design using surveys, energy-economy models, and media analysis.

Dr. Rhodes is a Lead Author for  on enablers and barriers to climate mitigation, and serves on . She is also an Editor for . Her leadership has been recognized with the  and the .

Previously, Dr. Rhodes worked at the BC Climate Action Secretariat, leading GHG modelling and economic analysis for the provincial CleanBC plan. She has also contributed to clean technology and green jobs research at the Vancouver Economic Commission, carbon tax perception studies at the Pembina Institute, and taught Environmental Economics at Royal Roads University.

Her current research advances the design of effective and politically acceptable climate policies. Supported by grants from SSHRC, ACET, and the Swedish Research Council, her team studies zero-emission pathways that balance sustainability and economic growth. Under a new SSHRC Insight grant, Dr. Rhodes investigates the rise of “climate delay discourses” defined as sophisticated forms of obstruction replacing traditional climate denial. Using AI, surveys, case studies, energy-economy modeling, and deliberative focus groups, this five-year project maps who promotes delay tactics, through which channels, how they affect public beliefs and emissions, and what policy and communication tools can be used to counter them. Dr. Rhodes’ ongoing projects also assess consumer motivations to adopt low-carbon technologies, improvements in energy-economy models, and the design of community-level policy to accelerate climate action.

Dr. Rhodes teaches graduate courses including ADMN 548 Sustainability Transitions and ADMN 509 Economics for Policy Analysis.

Research interests

  • climate delay discourses
  • climate policy design
  • public support for climate policy and technology
  • decoupling emissions from economic growth
  • climate governance

Research outputs

Please see  for a complete list of publications and media interviews.