Professor
Department of Sociology, University of British Columbia
tindall@mail.ubc.ca
David Tindall’s articles at The Conversation
David Tindall is a Professor in the Department of Sociology, at the University of British Columbia. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. He is currently a UBC Sustainability Teaching Fellow, Chair of the Environment and Society Minor at UBC, and PI for the Climate Disinformation and Obstructionism Research Cluster.
A primary focus of his research has been upon contention over environmental issues. He has developed an ego social network model of micromobilization for collective action related to environmentalism. He has also published extensively on climate change policy and discourse networks. His current research examines the role of social networks in facilitating action to address climate change, and compares and contrasts the roles of virtual and non-virtual social network ties. He has published numerous times in the journal Social Networks, and recently coedited a special issue of the journal on social networks and anthropogenic climate change. Amongst numerous other publications, he is the lead author on “Influence of Social Ties to Environmentalists on Public Climate Change Perceptions” in the journal, Nature Climate Change. He also studies climate change policy networks, and has published in a variety of journals on this topic.
- Stoddart, Mark C., Yasmin Koop-Monteiro, and Tindall, David B. 2025. “Instagram as an Arena of Climate Change Communication and Mobilization: A Discourse Network Analysis of COP26.” Environmental Communication 19(2):218–237.
- Howe, Adam C., Tindall, David B., and Mark C. J. Stoddart. 2023. “Drivers of Tie Formation in the Canadian Climate Change Policy Network: Belief Homophily and Social Structural Processes.” Social Networks 75:107–117.
- Stoddart, Mark C. J., Tindall, David B., Maria Brockhaus, and Marlene Kammerer. 2023. “Conference of the Parties Meetings as Regularly Scheduled Critical Events for Global Climate Governance: Reflecting on COP26 and the Glasgow Climate Pact.” Society & Natural Resources 36(4):442–450.
- Koop-Monteiro, Yasmin, Mark C. J. Stoddart, and Tindall, David B. 2023. “Animals and Climate Change: A Visual and Discourse Network Analysis of Instagram Posts.” Environmental Sociology 9(4):409–426.
- Tindall, David B., John McLevey, Yasmin Koop-Monteiro, and Alexander Graham. 2022. “Social Network Analysis, Big Data, Computational Social Science, and Related Advances.” Canadian Review of Sociology 59(2):271–288.
- Tindall, David B., Mark C. Stoddart, and Adam C. Howe. 2020. “Social Networks and Climate Change Policy Preferences: Structural Location and Policy Actor Support for Fossil Fuel Production.” Society & Natural Resources 33(11):1359–1379.
- “Disinformation, Democracy, and Online Political Deliberation”, John McLevey (PI), David Tindall, Anabel Quan-Haase (Co-PIs), SSHRC Insight Grant, $219,000, 2020-2025
- “Making sense of climate action: understanding social mobilization to curb anthropogenic climate change through advances in social network analysis.” D.B. Tindall (PI), John V.P. McLevey, and Mark C.J. Stoddart (Co-PIs). Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Insight Research Grant, $282,672, 2017-2022.
- “Canadian News Media and Climate Change Discourse Networks, 1997-2010.” Mark C.J. Stoddart (PI), D.B. Tindall, Randolph Haluza-DeLay (Co-PIs). SSHRC Insight Development Grant, $44,234, 2011-2013.
- “Social Networks and Climate Change Discourse, and the Role of Environmental Movements in Climate Change Policy Networks: An International Comparison.” D.B. Tindall (PI), Mark C.J. Stoddart (Co-PI). SSHRC Standard Research Grant, $189,000, 2011-2014.