Lesley+Herstein

= = Lesley is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Toronto. Her research explores water infrastructure issues from a holistic systems perspective. By borrowing from multiple disciplines, Lesley has built a conceptual systems framework for state and provincial water sectors. The framework allows stakeholders to both appreciate and work within the complexity associated with water provision to make better long-term strategic decisions associated with the public provision of water services. More generally, she is interested in the potential role of systems thinking and collaboration in differentiating between and addressing risk, uncertainty, ambiguity, and ignorance in the context of long-term strategic planning for public water infrastructure provision. For a sample of Lesley's work, visit www.thewaterworkshop.ca.

Contact: lesley.herstein@mail.utoronto.ca

Education
Doctor of Philosophy Candidate (expected completion date: August 2015) - Civil Engineering, University of Toronto Master of Science in Engineering - Civil Engineering, Queen's University Bachelor of Science in Engineering - Biosystems Engineering, University of Manitoba Bachelor of Science - Biology - University of Winnipeg

Research Interests

 * Technological and social innovation in state and provincial water sectors
 * Uncertainty, ambiguity, and risk in public infrastructure decision-making
 * Facilitation design for collaborative stakeholder engagement processes
 * Complex systems
 * Systems thinking and theory
 * Resilience and antifragility in complex systems
 * Anticipation in complex systems
 * The transition of complex societal systems