Eli Typhina PhD

Bio

Dr. Eli Typhina has over fifteen years of experience in researching and developing innovations related to human behavior change.  Her work primarily focuses on increasing sustainable behaviors, but she has also worked on topics related to national security, entrepreneurship, children, and diversity, equity, and inclusion.  Typhina’s approach focuses on stakeholder participation and includes interdisciplinary approaches from the fields of marketing, design, organizational change, and computer science.  Through her research, Typhina has produced curricula, prototypes, organizational policies, communications, and persuasion techniques for citizen groups and nonprofits, as well as national, state, and local government agencies.

Typhina’s projects include:

• Approaches to prompt sustainable behavior with mobile phones
• Techniques to improve cross-sector collaboration
• Urban park designs that prime pro-environmental attitudes
• Native American teachings to decolonize pedagogy

Typhina joined NC State in 2012 and has since held positions in the Department of Communication, Interdisciplinary Studies, Office of Research and Innovation, University Honors, and the Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources.

Courses

ES111 – Applications of Environmental Science

HON294 – Thinking Indigenous

HON398 – Eco-Entrepreneurship

ES495 – Environmental Behavior Change

Area(s) of Expertise

Behavior change
Participatory research
Sustainability
Entrepreneurship
Diversity Equity and Inclusion