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Dr. Jutta Gutberg is a finalist for the SSHRC Insight Award!
For more than two decades, Jutta’s research has advanced our understanding of waste governance, environmental sustainability, and social justice. Through her collaborative work with waste-picker communities and initiatives like the University for and with Waste Pickers (UNICATA), she continues to highlight the essential contributions of waste pickers and support more inclusive, sustainable approaches to waste management.
The SSHRC Insight Award is one of Canada’s highest honours for achievement in social sciences and humanities research.
We’re proud to celebrate this well-deserved recognition of Jutta’s impactful research and commitment to driving meaningful social and environmental change. 🌎♻️
Professor Jutta is awarded the Global Affairs Canada Faculty Mobility for Partnership Building Program Award (FMPBP)
The proposed research (2025-2026) has contributed to the strengthening and expansion of the existing collaboration between the home institution University of Victoria and the University of São Paulo, building on the Zero Waste and Youth and UNICATA projects in Brazil. The initiative has deepened institutional ties while advancing shared goals in sustainability, circular economy, popular education and community-engaged research.
'Empregos verdes' devem gerar 7 milhões de vagas no Brasil
[Portuguese] UOL news, June 2026
A shot at $1,000 or a guaranteed 10 cents? UBC study suggests choice could up recycling rates
Published by CBC News, June 2025
How UVic teamed with waste pickers in Brazil to build a university
Published by UVic News, December 2024
UVic working with waste pickers to build Brazilian university
Victoria News, “The University of Victoria is extending its global reach and impact on environmental education after a "groundbreaking" partnership in Brazil”.
UVic prof hopes to bring university for waste-pickers from Brazil to Victoria
Published by Times Colonist, 2024
Waste Pickers are helping solve Greater Victoria’s recycling problems
Check this Newsletter about the work that the CBRL is doing. Posted on March, 2024, by Chek News.
Professor Jutta paticipates as a fellow of the 8th German Leadership Academy, German Scholars Organization
In 2024, our lab leader Professor Jutta participated as Fellow of the 8th German Leadership Academy, German Scholars Organization
Jutta Gutberlet is Awarded the Above and Beyond Awards Of 2024 as “Out-going Interdisciplinary Program Director”
The Above and Beyond Awards celebrate individuals or teams of faculty, staff, and students in the Faculty of Social Sciences who have gone above and beyond their role in contributing to the campus community at the University of Victoria or the wider community.
Kriton Kuri Award Waste Management in Developing Countries
Jutta is awarded the Kriton Kuri Award Waste Management in Developing Countries, by the International Waste Working Group (IWWG), in 2023.
“Individuals making an income from what’s most consider waste, exists everywhere”
Interview with Professor Jutta Gutberlet, from the Department of Geography and the director of the Community-based Research Laboratory (CBRL) (UVic) and Research Alumna from University of Tunbingen (Germany),
Members of Tuk TV pose at the COP25 conference in Madrid, Spain. The group screened their documentary, Happening to Us, which shows the impacts climate change is having in their home community. (Submitted by Tuk TV)
'Their eyes opened up': Tuktoyaktuk teens screen climate change doc at UN conference
'I'm not afraid to say what I want to say anymore,' says teen following screening in Madrid. The Tuk TV collective is the brainchild of Maeva Gauthier, a University of Victoria student pursuing her PhD on engaging Arctic youth on global change.
By scooping up refundable bottles and cans, 'binners' are helping the environment
CBC’s program ‘What on Earth’ features Dr. Jutta Gutberlet’s research. Gutberlet, who works with diverters, co-authored a study published in Science earlier this month that suggests they should be included in a formal workforce in an effort to significantly reduce plastic waste.
Grassroots movements shift approach to recycling
According to new research grassroots movements can help shift how we think about recycling and the growing issue of garbage. Dare Sholanke, a recent geography master’s grad, studied Vancouver’s waste governance system, examining binners' (informal recyclers) and the role of grassroots organizations in municipal waste management.