Research ethic

I liken conducting research to visiting a train station. We all mill about while the great, big train of human thought and understanding comes rushing through. When it stops, we researchers grab our toolkit, we swarm around the engine, and we tinker, fix, shine, buff, add and polish. An all-too short time later, we hear the train whistle and we pull back just as the train doors slam, the engine fires up, and the train chugs off to its next destination. In that minuscule moment that we have, we try to boost the grand engine of human thought.

It’s a humbling privilege to work with people who want to learn, and to have the opportunity to help to create more knowledge and understanding. I feel a duty to share that learning—not just because my research is publicly funded, but also because it’s the right thing to do. Indigenous traditions treat knowledge as community knowledge. If our goal is for the greater good, then it behooves us to share our knowledge in accessible, engaging and inspiring ways that can make a positive difference in the communities that we serve.

Research goals and methods

I am drawn to the creative, collaborative and empowering potential of research. I seek to depolarize public dialogue and inspire collective action towards positive change on environmental concerns, social and economic justice, and democracy. I critically interrogate forces and values underlying public environmental communication and share my results through traditional scholarly dissemination (publications, conferences, teaching), arts-based formats (periodicals, films, theatre, art-gallery exhibitions and spoken-word performances) and community events (bookstore readings, town-hall meetings). Through arts-based methods, I gather, synthesize, analyze, reflect on and share my research through film, performance, podcasts and more. This is a departure from, and complement to, methods traditionally used in the science-rooted field of environmental communication.

Featured work

Scholarly projects (selected)

Books

Environmental Communication and Conciliation: Exploring Arts-Based and Indigenous Approaches. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield/Bloomsbury, forthcoming 11 December 2025. Part of a series in the publisher’s Lexington Books imprint titled Environmental Communication and Nature: Conflict and Ecoculture in the Anthropocene. Aims to share and inspire ideas to help us reduce our society’s mighty bootprint on the Earth and its First Peoples. Engaging Indigenous and non-Indigenous thinkers, knowledge-keepers, artists and communication practitioners, this work allies arts-based, Indigenous and environmental thinking and practice in a new, holistic approach. It explores causes of our colonizing land, air, water and people, plus daunting challenges to changing business-as-usual, in building a theoretical model for this tripartite alliance and then sharing practical, creative approaches to communication strategies towards repairing relationships to build a kinder and fairer legacy for the Earth and its diverse denizens.

Tar Wars: Oil, Environment and Alberta’s Image.  Edmonton, AB: University of Alberta Press, 2017. 296 pp. Explores the rising PR war over Alberta’s tar/oil sands through its visual vanguard, with independent documentary films critiquing the province’s environmental stewardship, and videos from the Alberta government and the oil industry defending it (See the book trailer!)

Scripting the Environment: Oil, Democracy and the Sands of Time and Space. Cham, CH: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. 236 pp. Makes the case for more humanities-oriented, arts-based research in environmental scholarship, presenting results from my studies in the form of scripts for film, theatre and digital productions; endorsers include Bill McKibben, author and co-founder of 350.org; Dr. Phaedra Pezzullo, co-author of a leading text on environmental communication; and Dr. Patricia Leavy, a leading scholars in arts-based research

Will the Real Alberta Please Stand Up? Edmonton, AB: University of Alberta Press, 2010. 432 pp. Blending prose, interviews and historical reenactments exploring elusive essences of Alberta, this book garnered media coverage (e.g. Toronto Star, Calgary Herald, Edmonton Journal, This Magazine), positive book reviews (e.g. Journal of Cultural Geography, The Goose), a brief foray onto the independent non-fiction bestseller lists in Calgary (#1) and Edmonton (#8), and a gold medal for “Best Regional Non-Fiction” at the Independent Book Publishers Association awards in New York City in 2011

Patents: A Canadian Compendium of Law and Practice (Edmonton, AB: Juriliber, 1993). 480 pp. Reviewed in the Canadian Bar Association’s magazine, National (Nov–Dec 1993, vol. 3, no. 8), as an indispensable work in the field, and cited as legal authority by the World Intellectual Property Organization’s Standing Committee on Patents, nine times by the Federal Court of Canada and once by the Supreme Court of Canada

Reviews of my books

Alley-Young, Gordon. “Tar Wars: Oil, Environment and Alberta’s Image.” Canadian Journal of Communication 44(3), 2019.

Doan, Holly. 2017. “Review: Fort Mac versus Hiroshima.” Blacklock’s Reporter, 25 March 2017.

Dusyk, Nichole. 2017. “Lights, Camera, Action, Debate: Documentaries about Alberta’s Tar Sands Between 2004 and 2014 Have Helped and Hindered Public Debate.” BC Booklook, 5 October 2017.

Norris, Rob. “Tar Wars: Oil, Environment and Alberta’s Image.” Alberta Views 20:10 (October 2017): 58. .

Wandersee, Sarah. “Will the Real Alberta Please Stand Up?” Journal of Cultural Geography 29:1 (February 2012): 126–128.

Krahn, Carolyn. “Rats, Mavericks, and Oil Rigs: Steer-Wrestling Alberta Stereotypes.” The Goose 10 (Winter 2012): 86–87 (journal of the Association for Literature, Environment, and Culture in Canada).

Bowling, Tim. “Will the Real Alberta Please Stand Up?” New Trail  (University of Alberta), Spring 2011, p. 43.

articles

(with intrepid research assistant Kyera Cook) “Decolonizing Environmentalism: Addressing Ecological and Indigenous Colonization through Arts-Based Communication.” Environmental Values 33:5 (2024): 529–549, https://doi.org/10.1177/09632719231224115.

“Eco-comedy.” Environmental Humanities 14:2 (2022): 371–374. https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-9712445.

“Interweaving in/on the Air: A Scripted Synthesis of Indigenous and Settler Knowledges for Environmental Protection in Resource Development.” Qualitative Inquiry 27: 8–9 (2021): 1072–1083.

“Interweaving Indigenous and Settler Knowledges for Environmental Protection in Resource Development and Indigenous Conciliation in Canada.” Journal of Canadian Studies, 55:1 (2021): 5–30.

“Ticked Talk Radio: Responding Inly to Finley.” Cultural Studies—Critical Methodologies 14:6 (2014): 1–9 (Special issue on “Critical Arts-Based Inquiry: The Pedagogy and Performance of a Radical Ethical Aesthetic”).

“Selling Nature in a Resource-Based Economy: Romantic/Extractive Gazes and Alberta’s Bituminous Sands.” Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture 7:2 (June 2013): 211–230.

“Flickering Lights vs. Footlights: A Script.” Paperweight: A Newspaper of Visual and Material Culture 1:1 (Autumn/Winter 2010): 12–13.

“Projecting Knowledge Management: Screenwriting as a Tool for Knowledge-Sharing and Action.” Journal of Knowledge Management Practice 7:1 (2006). 5,000 words.

“Turning Terror into Discovery: Traditional Narrative Strategies and Interactive Educational Media.” In Proceedings of Ed-Media 2002: World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications (pp. 1924–1925). Edited by P. Barker and S. Rebelsky. Norfolk, VA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education, 2002.

book chapters

“Active Learning through Arts-Based Inquiry.” In Active Learning for Real World Inquiry (pp. 175–184). Edited by Doug Hamilton, Elizabeth Childs, and Richard Kool. Victoria, BC: Royal Roads University, 2023. https://pressbooks.bccampus.ca/activelearningforrealworldinquiry/

“Allying Arts-Based and Indigenist Approaches for Environmental Protection and Social Justice.” In Transformative Visions in Qualitative Inquiry (pp. 119–138). Edited by Norman Denzin and Michael Giardina. London, UK: Routledge, 2022.

“Creating an Ecoaesthetic: Integrating Arts-Based Research into Courses on Environmental Communication.” In The Pedagogy of Environmental Communication (pp. 102–111). Edited by Tema Milstein, Mairi Pileggi and Eric Morgan. New York, NY: Routledge, 2017.

“Live from Alberta! Radio Petro presents A Scary Home Companion.” In Petrocultures: Oil, Energy, Culture (pp. 479–497). Edited by Imre Szeman and Sheena Wilson. Montreal, QC and Kingston, ON: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2017.

“Identity.” In Fueling Culture: Energy, History, Politics (pp. 189–192). Edited by Imre Szeman, Jennifer Wenzel and Patricia Yaeger. Bronx, NY: Fordham University Press, 2017.

“Alberta’s Environmental Janus: Andrew Nikiforuk and Chris Turner.” In Writing Alberta: Building on a Literary Identity (pp. 71–89). Edited by Donna Coates and George Melnyk. Calgary, AB: University of Calgary Press, 2017.

“Selling Nature in a Resource-Based Economy: Romantic/Extractive Gazes and Alberta’s Bituminous Sands.” In Visual Environmental Communication (pp. 61–78). Edited by Anders Hansen and David Machin. London, UK: Routledge, 2015. (Reprint of journal article noted above)

“Visualizing Alberta: A Battle of Branding, Nature and Bituminous Sands.” In Found in Alberta: Environmental Themes for the Anthropocene (pp. 85–103). Edited by Robert Boschman and Mario Trono. Waterloo, ON: Sir Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2014.

Films

Shih (Interconnectedness), a feature-length documentary film (release slated for autumn 2025), trailer/pilot presented at the annual conference of the Environmental Studies Association of Canada (12 June 2024) and fine cut advance-premiered at Royal Roads University (20 March 2025) and 18th biennial Conference on Communication and the Environment (27 June 2025).

Environmental Relations, a short film presented at the 17th International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (21 May 2021) and the 16th biennial Conference on Communication and the Environment (23 June 2021).

Eco-Comedy: A Rough-Cut Primer presented at the 16^th biennial Conference on Communication and the Environment (24 June 2021).

Voices from the Visual Volley: Filmmakers, the Tar Sands and Public Health, short documentary premiered at InSight 2: Engaging the Health Humanities, juried international exhibition at the University of Alberta, Fine Arts Building Gallery, 14 May–8 June 2013, and selected for inclusion in Brain Storms: UAlberta Creates, juried exhibition of artwork at Enterprise Square Gallery, University of Alberta, 25 September 2015–23 January 2016

Popular media

“Canada Day: Why Renaming Roads and How We Tell Stories Matter for Reconciliation.” The Conversation, June 29, 2023. Republished by outlets including Yahoo News.  

“Comedy Should Punch Up, Not Kick Down.” The Conversation, June 21, 2022. https://theconversation.com/comedy-should-punch-up-not-kick-down-184705. Republished by outlets including Yahoo News (https://ca.news.yahoo.com/comedy-punch-not-kick-down-151441173.html) and The National Post (https://nationalpost.com/pmn/news-pmn/comedy-should-punch-up-not-kick-down).

“Climate Change or Climate Crisis? It’s All in the Framing.” National Observer, 17 October 2019.

ART-EXHIBITION CATALOGUES

“Voices from the Visual Volley: Filmmakers, the Tar Sands and Public Health.” Abstract. In InSight 2: Engaging the Health Humanities. Edited by Lianne McTavish and Pamela  Brett-MacLean. Edmonton, AB: Department of Art and Design, University of  Alberta, 2013. p. 71.

InSight: Visualizing Health Humanities. Edmonton, AB: Department of Art and Design, University of Alberta (co-editor with B. Sadler Takach, P. Brett-MacLean and A. Rowe), 2012.

Conference presentations (Refereed)

“Making New Worlds Together from the Margins: International Premiere and Sharing Circle for Film, Shih (Interconnectedness).” [screening of feature-length film]. 18^th Biennial Conference on Communication and the Environment, International Environmental Communication Association, Hobart, Australia, 27 June 2025

“Depolarizing Dialogue on Climate Change through Intercultural Communication (and Eco-Comedy!).” 18^th Biennial Conference on Communication and the Environment, International Environmental Communication Association, Hobart, Australia, 25 June 2025.

“Dialoguing Environmental, Indigenous and Arts-Based Approaches Towards Sustaining Shared Futures.” Annual conference of the Environmental Studies Association of Canada, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, 12 June 2024.

“Linking Environmental, Arts-Based and Indigenous Voices for Sustainable Futures.” 17^th Biennial Conference on Communication and the Environment, International Environmental Communication Association, Harrisonburg, VA, 7 June 2023.

“Engaging Authenticity through Arts-Based Research” [convenor, organizer and chair of organizational partner panel from International Environmental Communication Association, “Engaging Authenticity in Environmental Communication through Arts-Based Research and Pedagogy”], 73^rd annual conference of the International Communication Association, Toronto, ON, 29 May 2023.

“Eco-Comedy: No Laughing Matter.” 18^th International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (virtual). May 20, 2022.

“Allying Arts-Based and Indigenist Approaches to Enrich Environmental Appeals.” 16^th Biennial Conference on Communication and the Environment, International Environmental Communication Association, 23 June 2021.

“Eco-Comedy: A Mock-Up Primer” [artist’s performance]. 16^th Conference on Communication and the Environment, International Environmental Communication Association, 23 June 2021.

“Teaching Environmental Relations” [panel]. 16^th Conference on Communication and the Environment, International Environmental Communication Association, 22 June 2021.

“Allying Arts-Based and Indigenist Approaches for Environmental Protection and Social Justice.”

“What’s in a Frame: Communicating in a Polarized, ‘Changing’ Climate.” Environmental Studies Association of Canada/Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, 2020.

“Towards ‘Environmental Reconciliation’: Environmental Protection and Indigenous Reconciliation through Arts-Based Research” (with Kyera Cook). 15^th biennial Conference on Communication and the Environment, Vancouver, BC, 2019. Abstract.

“A Fluid Look at Life” (featured artists’ performance, with Paul Allison). 15^th biennial Conference on Communication and the Environment, Vancouver, BC, 2019.

“Interweaving Indigenous and Settler Knowledges to Protect Canada’s Coastal Waters” (poster presentation, in collaboration with Asma-na-hi Antoine). 15^th biennial Conference on Communication and the Environment, Vancouver, BC, 2019.

“Towards Interweaving Environmental Protection and Indigenous Reconciliation in Canada” (with Asma-na-hi Antoine). Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences/Environmental Studies Association of Canada. Vancouver, BC, 2019.

“Environmental Leadership for Canada: Indigenous Lessons on Mixing Oil Pipelines and Water.” SSHRC Imagining Canada’s Future Forum, Ottawa, ON, 2017.

“Filmic Contestations of ‘The World’s Largest Industrial Project’” [panel presentation; conceived and organized the panel, on the theme of four fundamental elements: earth, air, fire and water, my presentation relating to the first element], 14^th biennial Conference on Communication and the Environment, Leicester, UK, 2017.

“Strategic Environmental Storytelling” [workshop]. 14^th biennial Conference on Communication and the Environment, Leicester, UK, 2017.

“Fighting Madness with Method: Writing Environmental Scripts.” 13^th International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Urbana-Champaign, IL, 2017.

“Environmental Leadership for Canada: Indigenous Lessons on Mixing Oil Pipelines and Water.” SSHRC Knowledge Synthesis Grant pre-presentation (with collaborator, Asma-na-hi Antoine). Ottawa, ON, 2017.

“Indigenously Infused Environmental Leadership for Canada” (one-hour presentation with Asma-na-hi Antoine), Leadership Conference, Royal Roads University, Victoria, BC, 2017.

“Water, Resource Extraction and Contested Place-Identity in Alberta.” Under Western Skies 4 (international environmental-studies conference), Mount Royal University. Calgary, AB, 2016.

“Live from Alberta! Radio Petro presents A Scary Home Companion.” Reading of my radio play as a featured public presentation during Congress 2016 of the Humanities and Social Sciences/Environmental Studies Association of Canada, Calgary, AB, 2016.

“Oil, Public Relations and Film/Video: Divisions and Collisions in Environmental Communication.” 13^th biennial Conference on Communication and the Environment, International Environmental Communication Association, Boulder, CO, 2015.

“Designing Alberta: Identity, Representation, Energy and the Environment” (with Bonnie Sadler Takach). Ninth International Conference on Design Principles and Practices, Chicago, IL, 2015.

“Environmental Communication Pedagogy and Practice.” Environmental Communication Division, National Communication Association (NCA), preconference seminar, centennial NCA conference, Chicago, IL, 2014.

“‘Never the Twain Shall Meet’?: Writing Drama for Stage and Screen.” Theatre, Film and New Multimedia Division, NCA, Chicago, IL, 2014.

“Place Identity and Alberta’s Bituminous Sands: An Innisian Approach.” Congress 2014 of the Humanities and Social Sciences/Canadian Communication Association, St. Catharines, ON, 2014.

“Bordering on Absurdity: Uniting Environmentalism, Scholarship and Comedy.” Congress 2014 of the Humanities and Social Sciences/Environmental Studies Association of Canada, St. Catharines, ON, 2014.

“Borderless Bricolage: Blending Environmentalism and Arts-based Research.” Congress 2014 of the Humanities and Social Sciences/Environmental Studies Association of Canada, St. Catharines, ON, 2014.

“Dancing with the Tars: Contesting Alberta’s Bituminous Sands Onscreen.” Congress 2014 of the Humanities and Social Sciences/Film Studies Association of Canada, St. Catharines, ON, 2014.

“Voices from the Visual Volley: A Film on Filmmakers, Bituminous Sands and Public Health” (screening). Congress 2014 of the Humanities and Social Sciences/Film Studies Association of Canada, St. Catharines, ON, 2014.

“Edges and Flows of Identity: Economy, Environment and the Tar Sands.” Congress 2013 of the Humanities and Social Sciences/Environmental Studies Association of Canada, Victoria, BC, 2013.

“Liminality Obliterated: Rurality, Urbanity and The Calgary Stampede (1925)” (short film). Congress 2013 of the Humanities and Social Sciences/Film Studies Association of Canada, Victoria, BC, 2013.

“Transmedia Meets Environmental Communication: An Initial Framework.” 12^th biennial Conference on Communication and the Environment, International Environmental Communication Association, Uppsala, Sweden, 2013.

“Environment vs. Extraction: Framing Alberta’s Tar Sands” (poster), 12^th biennial Conference on Communication and the Environment, International Environmental Communication Association, Uppsala, Sweden, 2013.

“Visually Redefining Alberta: A Study in Polarized, Resource-Based Economies.” Under Western Skies 2, Mount Royal University, Calgary, AB, 2012.

“Documentary, Dissent and Alberta’s Bituminous Sands: The Case of Tipping Point.”  Documentary and the Environment, University of Surrey, Surrey, UK, 2012.

“Space, Place and the Face of Empire: Lessons from Harold Innis on Alberta’s Tar Sands,” Space, Place, and the McLuhan Legacy, Media Ecology Association, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, 2011.

“Visualizing Alberta: Place Branding, Identity and the Oil Sands.” Under Western Skies,  Mount Royal University, Calgary, AB, 2010.

“Alberta and the Rhetoric of Exceptionality.” Congress 2010 of the Humanities and Social Sciences/Canadian Society for the Study of Rhetoric, Montréal, QC, 2010.

“Alberta, the Tar Sands and the Dissenting Documentary Film.” Environmental Change–Cultural Change conference, University of Bath, Bath, UK, 2010.

“Defining a Community Phenomenon and a Community Itself: Lessons from Two Projects.” First Annual Showcase and Conference on Community-Engaged Research, University of Alberta, Faculty of Extension, 2008.

“Will the Real Alberta Please Stand Up?” Still the ‘Last Best West’ or Just Like the Rest: Interrogating Western Canadian Identities, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, BC, 2007.

“Traditional Narrative Strategies and Interactive Educational Media.” Ed-Media 2002, World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications, Denver, CO, 2002.

“Traditional Narrative Strategies and Interactive Educational Media.” Odyssey 2002, Alberta Teachers’ Association Computer Council, Kananaskis, AB, 2002.

other PRESENTATIONS AND activities

“Arts-Based Research: Paradigm, Manifesto and Mission for Volatile Times.” BCcampus. https://media.bccampus.ca/media/Research+Speaker+SeriesA+Arts-Based+Research+as+Paradigm%2C+Manifesto%2C+and+Mission+for+Volatile+Times+%28Sep.+10%2C+2024%29/0_i4u2k1yh, 10 September 2024.

“Environmental Communication Meets Intercultural Communication.” Guest-lecture, IICS638, Graduate Seminar in Intercultural Settings, Royal Roads University, 13 August 2024 .

“Inclusivity, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility in Environmental Communication.” Presentation at a virtual meeting of the International Environmental Communication Association, 31 May 2024.

“Communication as Quintessence, Decolonizer and Lifestyle. Distinguished keynote address, Master of Arts In Communications and Technology program residency, University of Alberta, 24 May 2024.

“Nurturing Collaboration: How to Find, Develop, and Maintain Interdisciplinary and Community Connections” [invited panel], Graduate Student Preconference, 17^th Conference on Communication and the Environment, International Environmental Communication Association, Harrisonburg, VA, 5 June 2023.

“Story, Engagement, and Relationality: Perspectives on Indigenous Curriculum, Research, and Pedagogy” [panel with Russell Johnson, Jasmine Dionne and Dr. Chasten Remillard]. Opening panel at 3^rd Annual Conference on Communication Ethics, Royal Roads University, 22 February 2023.

“How to Connect Genuinely in a Virtual World” [webinar co-presented with Dr. Chaseten Remillard], Royal Roads University, 6 July 2021.

“Job Interview Advice for Grad Students” [panel with Dr. Barbara Willard and Dr. Catalina De Onís], Grad Student Preconference, 16^th Conference on Communication and the Environment, International Environmental Communication Association, 17 June 2021.

“Why Communication Matters” [webinar with Dr. Chaseten Remillard], School of Communication and Culture, Royal Roads University, 13 May 2021.

“Eco-Comedy (Seriously?)” [webinar presentation], Earthrise: An Earth Day Celebration to Rise Up for the Earth, Royal Roads University, 22 April 2021.

“Impactful and Reflective Learning” [webinar], Pedagogical Values Series, Royal Roads University, 28 January 2021.

“What’s in a Frame: Communicating in a Polarized, ‘Changing’ Climate” (with Kyera Cook). Communication Matters speakers’ series, Royal Roads University, 2020.

“Intercultural Communication in Turbulent Times.” Panel presentation, convener/host, with Olaolu Adeleye, Wayne Clark and Juana Du. Communication Matters speakers’ series, Royal Roads University, 2020.

“A Play on Water: Fluid Reflections on a Philo-Psycho-Soci-eau-Cultural Journey” with Paul Allison, Roads to Research, Royal Roads University, 2019.

Convener/MC/Interviewer, featured film screening/Q&A of Haida Gwaii with filmmaker Charles Wilkinson. 15^th biennial Conference on Communication and the Environment, Vancouver, BC, 2019.

Convener/MC, keynote panel, “Communicating National Controversy: The Trans Mountain Pipeline” with panelists Kai Nagata, Kamala Todd and Kent Verge. 15^th biennial Conference on Communication and the Environment, Vancouver, BC, 2019.

“Applying for Academic Research Grants.”Panelist, Graduate-Student Preconference. 15^th biennial Conference on Communication and the Environment, Vancouver, BC, 2019.

Presenter, Inaugural Author-Editor Recognition Event, Royal Roads University, 2019.

“Screenwriting” (workshop). Refining our Narratives, annual conference of the Writers’ Guild of Alberta. Calgary, AB, 2018.

“Political Wisdom in a Climate of Controversy.” Co-panelist, Refining our Narratives, annual conference of the Writers’ Guild of Alberta, Calgary, AB, 2018.

“Who Wants to be a Communicator?” Communication Matters, School of Communication and Culture-hosted public event at RRU (an audience-participation game show focusing on communication studies), 2018.

“Scripting Your Research: Sharing Your Stories via Arts-Based Research Methods.” Royal Roads University, 2017.

“Alberta—and Why It’s Such a Gas.” Keynote address, annual meeting of the Federation of Alberta Gas Cooperatives. Edmonton, AB, 2017.

 “Know Thy Neighbour: Will the Real Alberta Please Stand Up?” Royal Roads University, Roads to Research, 2016.

“Environment, Communication and Democracy” (award acceptance speech). 10^th International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, University of Chicago at Urbana-Champaign, 2014.

“Environment, Oil and Video, or, New Meanings through ABR (Alberta, Bitumen and Research-creation).” Arts-Based Research Studio, University of Alberta, 2014.

“Voices from the Visual Volley: Filmmakers, the Tar Sands and Public Health.” Film screening and Q&A, Faculty of Fine Arts and Communications Research Showcase, Grant MacEwan University, 2013.

“Visually Redefining Alberta.” Faculty Research, Scholarly Activity and Creative Achievement Showcase, Grant MacEwan University, 2012.

“Will the Real Alberta Please Stand Up?” Film screening/Q&A, Campus Interfaith and Spirituality Centre, University of Calgary, 2012.

“Will the Real Alberta Please Stand Up?” Film screening and Q&A, Faculty of Communication and Culture Colloquium, University of Calgary, 2009.

“Dual Alberta.” Film screening and Q&A. Faculty Research, Scholarly Activity and ArtisticCreation Showcase, Grant MacEwan College, Centre for the Arts and Communications, 2009.

“Will the Real Alberta Please Stand Up?” (book in progress), Faculty Research, Scholarly Activity and Artistic Creation Showcase, Grant MacEwan College, Centre for the Arts and Communications, 2008.

“Will the Real Alberta Please Stand Up?” (film in progress), Faculty Research Showcase, Grant MacEwan College, 2007.

“Maverick Alberta.” Faculty Research, Scholarly Activity and Artistic Creation Showcase, Grant MacEwan College, Centre for the Arts and Communications, 2006.

“Will the Real Alberta Please Stand Up?” (film in progress), Faculty Research Showcase, Grant MacEwan College, 2005

“Traditional Narrative Techniques and New Media” (poster). New Connections, New Questions, Symposium on Communications and Technology, U of Alberta, 2003.

research report

“Environmental Leadership for Canada: Indigenous Lessons on Mixing Oil Pipelines and Water. Final report, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)/Knowledge Synthesis Grant, with expanded appendices including arts-based research.” 2018. 65 pp. (presented to SSHRC and invited guests in Ottawa, 2018).

Professional publications & productions (selected)

“The Patch: The People, Pipelines, and Politics of the Oil Sands” [book review]. Alberta Views 21:1 (January 2018): 88.

A palpable plethora of further content coming soon…