Eva Pomeroy is Research Lead and Senior Faculty at the Presencing Institute. She is co-faculty lead with Otto Scharmer for the flagship MITx program, u-lab: Leading from the Emerging Future, which provides capacity-building in Theory U and awareness-based systems change to a global community at scale.

Eva's research centres on the question: what does it take to know and transform the deeper structures of collective life? That inquiry has led her from empirical studies of transformative learning in u-lab, to theorising the social field as a distinct and knowable entity, to co-developing with Otto Scharmer the concept of fourth-person knowing which proposes trans-subjectivity as a distinct epistemology. Their most recent collaboration is the Deep Sensing Lab, an experimental space for working with sensing as research methodology for fourth-person knowing. A white paper based on this work is currently under review, alongside a proposal to build the Social Field MRI – an MRI equivalent for the collective brain. Together, these endeavours form part of a broader initiative to establish the science of the social field as a recognised, evidence-based field of inquiry.

Eva is Co-Founder and Managing Editor of the Journal of Awareness-Based Systems Change (JASC), an open-access platform for creative scholarship advancing the emerging field of awareness-based systems change. JASC is indexed with Scopus and holds the DOAJ SEAL designation for best practices in open access publishing, with articles collectively viewed and downloaded over 340,000 times since its launch in 2021.

Eva came to the Presencing Institute Concordia University in Montreal, where she was faculty on programs in Human Relations and Human Systems Intervention. Earlier in her career, Eva worked with Outward Bound Wales and Brathay Hall Trust in the United Kingdom, co-designing and delivering residential leadership programs.

She holds a B.A. (Hons) in Political Science from McGill University and a PhD in Education from Birmingham City University. She lives in Montreal with her husband and two sons. Read more about Eva here.