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Bocking, Stephen
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Stephen Bocking joined Trent University in 1994 as a professor of environmental policy and history. Before this, he briefly taught at the University of British Columbia and York University. He studied at the University of Toronto and received a PhD in the History of Science. Bocking’s research focuses on the roles and meanings of science in environmental politics, examining them both historically and through case studies. Up until 2016, Bocking was the director of the Trent School of Environment where he led the undergraduate environmental unit. Bocking served as chair of the President’s Environmental Advisory Committee during the 2000s and was very involved in the proposed Trent hydropower project of Locks 22 and 23.