Patricia Johnston

DepartmentOrganizationEmailPhoneLadysmith , British Columbia V9G1C9CanadaBioPatricia has worked throughout the Arctic and northern Canada for the last 15 years. As a critical theorist, her research interests focus on community-based research in relation to social, cultural and economic impacts of policy on Inuit children and families in Nunavut, Indigenous governance, gendered labour and exclusion, traditional knowledge, and the perpetuation of colonial institutions over time in the Arctic.

Interests

Social Science, Interdisciplinary Research, Indigenous Knowledge, Citizen Science

Science Specialties

Community-based participatory research, social policy, colonial institutions, traditional knowledge, child and family wellness and wellbeing