- Professor and Impact Chair in Transformative Governance for Planetary Health, School of Public Administration, University of Victoria
Heather Castleden is a community-engaged human geographer; she has spent two decades doing research in partnership with Indigenous peoples across the country by aligning her expertise with their priorities for sovereignty and resurgence in governance across multiple spheres including treaty implementation, water management, and renewable energy development. She also concentrates her energies in supporting research ethics and accountability, the politics of knowledge production, and decolonizing settler colonialism in institutional settings.
Experience
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2021–presentProfessor and Impact Chair in Transformative Governance for Planetary Health, School of Public Administration, University of Victoria
Education
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2007University of Alberta, PhD from the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (Human Geography)
Honours
Canada Research Chair (2016-2021); Fulbright Scholar (2021-2022); Impact Chair (2021-2026)
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- Location: Canada
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