Dr. Margot Hurlbert is the University of Regina's newest Canada Research Chair (CRC).

Hurlbert, coordinating lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) Special Report on Land and Climate and professor in the Centre for the Study of Science and Innovation Policy at the University's Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy (Regina campus) was awarded a Tier 1 CRC in Climate Change, Energy, and Sustainability Policy. Her leading research focuses on addressing the gap between current policy and behaviour, and understanding what is needed to address climate change.