Dr Jonathon Turnbull named as one of 15 CIFAR Global Scholars

Dr Jonathon Turnbull has been named as one of fifteen early-career researchers joining CIFAR as part of their Global Scholars programme for 2026-2028. Jonny will be joining a group of leading researchers from around the world to advance ambitious ideas across disciplines.

Jonny's research examines how environmental knowledge is produced, contested and understood across different places and contexts. His current project, Nightlife in the More-than-human City, explores the urban nightscape as an ecologically important but understudied space. Working with ecologists, citizen scientists and urban rewilders, Jonny is developing participatory, multisensory and multispecies methods to study the everyday night-time lives of cats in London, raccoons in Berlin and hedgehogs in Newcastle.

Jonny said "Joining CIFAR's Future Flourishing programme is an immense privilege. It is incredibly exciting to be able to learn alongside scholars and artists whose work I have admired for so long. CIFAR's curiosity driven ethos offers a unique opportunity to pursue the ideas I care about most and to conduct research that makes a difference for people and nature". You can read more about Jonny's work here.