"Gladman is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Environmental Science, where he teaches both undergraduate and postgraduate students. He completed his PhD in Environmental Science in 2011 at Rhodes University, South Africa. He was previously a PhD fellow in the Department of International Environment and Development Studies (NORAGRIC), at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. Glad’s career and research focus on improving human well-being. His broader research interests are centred on understanding (a) the links between wild resource use, rural livelihoods and household welfare issues and (b) pro-environmental behaviour (energy, water, recycling), within the context of sustainable natural resource management. He has a growing field research experience with indigenous and local communities in rural parts of South Africa and Zimbabwe. Beyond his environmental science-related research, Glad has a growing research interest in higher education studies. He has a key research interest on how group work, in an increasingly relationally diverse environment, can be more expansively viewed and crafted as ‘terrains of learning’ for students. Glad is an avid educator and a recipient of the 2016 Vice Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award. Glad is an author of more than 20 publications on issues around wild resource use and rural livelihoods, conservation conflicts, energy use behaviour and group-work and learning. Glad’s research and practice has been supported by the National Research Foundation (South Africa), Centre for Environmental Economics and Policy in Africa (South Africa), Economic Research Southern Africa (South Africa), International Foundation for Science (Sweden), the Social Science Research Council (USA) and the Centre for International Governance Innovation (Canada)."

How group work, in an increasingly relationally diverse environment, can be more expansively viewed and crafted as ‘terrains of learning’ for students.