Heather Castledon

Biography

Heather Castleden identifies as a white settler scholar, with ancestral roots in Scotland and England. She has trained as a human health geographer and does community-based participatory research in solidarity with Indigenous Peoples in their communities and with their organizations and Nations on their priority issues that fall within her areas of experience: the nexus of culture, place, power, resistance, resurgence, and relational accountability to the land and each other. She was a CIHR New Investigator, a Canada Research Chair, and she is now the President’s Impact Chair in Transformative Governance for Planetary Health at the University of Victoria in the traditional territories of the lək̓ʷəŋən speaking peoples. Heather is an elected member of the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists.