Professor Brian Elliott
Professor of Sociology,
Department of Anthropology and Sociology,
The University of British Columbia
Dr. Elliott's major research interests have focussed on issues of social inequality, property and power. A concern with processes of economic change and their impact on human communities and the environment runs through much of Dr. Elliott's work, and before he left Scotland in 1991 this sparked a series of graduate projects looking at the decline of coal mining and mining communities, the collapse of the U.K's east coast fishing industry, and the radical reorganization of Scottish agriculture. These themes translated all too easily to the Canadian context, leading to teaching on the Sociology of Natural Resources and on Environmental Sociology, to his involvement in one of the Tri-Council Eco-Research projects that explored the prospects of sustainablity in the Lower Fraser Basin in B.C., and to the current research on British Columbia's coastal communities.