Douglas Keddy
Research Communications Manager, Research at Western
Telephone: 519-661-2111 x 87485
Office Location: 360 Westminster Hall, London, Ontario, Canada, N6A 3K7
Email: dkeddy@uwo.ca
Research Interests / Specializations: Coordinates communications, marketing, government relations and media relations efforts that positively position the University's research activities locally, nationally, and internationally.
Douglas Keddy is Western’s Research Communications Manager, coordinating communications and marketing efforts that positively position the university’s research activities locally, nationally and internationally. Increasingly, he finds himself supporting strategic initiatives across Research Western’s portfolio, in addition to traditional communications efforts. He is also a member of Western’s Board of Governors.
Over the past decade, Douglas has led a series of capacity-building initiatives around the world on the university’s behalf, including through several communications-related volunteer roles in Africa and Asia. He has been engaged in promoting the Western Heads East program since its inception, and has had the opportunity to participate in it as a volunteer at various sites in Tanzania and Kenya. Similarly, Douglas was actively involved in promotion and logistics related to the Africa Institute’s launch in Nairobi, after which he spent several weeks accompanying members of the Ecosystem Health Program as they conducted fieldwork and initiated a community-based photo documentary in Lake Naivasha.
In 2009, Douglas spent two months volunteering with the Rwanda Development Board to help establish the Kitabi College of Conservation and Environmental Management in the southern part of the country. While there, he helped write curriculum, develop a communications strategy, build capacity related to marketing and communications and co-led a three-day leadership session for the International Gorilla Conservation Programme in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Other personal travels have taken him throughout southern Africa.
