Publications

The HECLab’s scholarly contributions.

2024

John, J., & Castleden, H. (2024). “Dear John”: Overriding institutional axiology by privileging Indigenous relational ethics. Research Ethics.

Lewis, D., Castleden, H., Glass, R., & Bates-Eamer, N. (2024) From Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) involving Indigenous Peoples to Indigenous-Led CBPR: It’s More Than Just Drinking Tea. Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement.

McMaster, K., deWildt, S., Shardlow, E., Mishos, S., & Castleden, H. (2024) Getting Punk and Personal: Creating and Evaluating Podcasts as Pedagogy for Teaching and Learning in Critical Geographical Methodologies. Journal of Geography in Higher Education.

2023

Buse, C., Aker, A., McLaren, L., HubkaRoa, T., Sweeney, E., van der Jagt, R., and members of the National Working Group on Environments, Health, and Societal Wellbeing (inc. Castleden, H). (2023). Canada needs a funding institute focused on environments, health and societal well-being research. Canadian Journal of Public Health. READ MORE

Sloan Morgan, O., Kennedy, R. Castleden, H. & Huu-ay-aht First Nations (2023). The living nature of a modern treaty: Preparing for the Maa-nulth Treaty’s first period review. BC Studies 216: 41-71. READ MORE

Johnson L.R., Wilcox A.A.E., Alexander S.M., Bowles E., Castleden H., Henri D.A., Provencher J.F., Orihel D.M. Weaving Indigenous and western-based ways of knowing in ecotoxicology and wildlife health: A systematic review of Canadian studies. Environmental Reviews. READ MORE

2022

White, I., & Castleden, H. Time as an instrument of settler evasion: Circumventing the implementation of truth and reconciliation in Canadian geography departments. The Canadian Geographer, pp. 1-14. READ MORE

Sylvestre, P., & Castleden, H. Asinabka in four transformation: How settler colonialism and racial capitalism sutured urbanization in Canada’s capital to the plunder of Algonquin territory. Settler Colonial Studies. READ MORE

Sylvestre, P., & Castleden, H., (in press). Refusing to Relinquish: How Settler Canada Uses Race, Property, and Jurisdiction to Undermine Urban Indigenous Land Reclamation. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. READ MORE

Cullen, C., Castleden, H., Wein, F. Two-Eyed Seeing In the Colonial Archive: Reflections on Participatory Archival Research. Area (Accepted, January 28, 2022). READ MORE

Rose, J., & Castleden, H. ” A serious rift”: The Indigenous Health Research Community’s refusal of the 2014 CIHR funding reforms and underlying methodological conservatism. The International Indigenous Policy Journal, 13(3), 1-19. READ MORE

2021

Anand, S., Abonyi, S., Arbour, L., Balasubramanian, K., Brook, J., Castleden, H. & Toth, E. (Accpeted Nov 20, 2019). Explaining the variability in cardiovascular risk factors among First Nations communities in Canada: a population-based study. The Lancet-Planetary Health (3): e511–20. READ MORE

Castleden, H., Lin, J., & Darrach, M. (2021). Public Health Moves to Innocence and Evasion? Graduate Training Programs’ Engagement in Truth and Reconciliation for Indigenous Health. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 113, 211-221. READ MORE

Ley, M., Martin, D., Castleden, H. (Accepted May 6, 2021). Student Perspectives on Indigenous Health Content In Pre-Clinical Medical Education. Healthy Populations Journal, Vol. 1(2). READ MORE

Cullen, C., Castleden, H., Wien, F. (2021). The Historical Roots of Social Assistance: An Inadequate Response to the Colonial Destruction of Mi’kmaw Livelihood In Nova Scotia. International Indigenous Policy Journal, 12(3). READ MORE

Rotz, S., Rose, J., Masuda, Lewis, D., Castleden H. (2021). Toward intersectional and culturally relevant sex and gender analysis in health research. Social Science & Medicine, 292. READ MORE

Sanchez-Pimienta, C., Masuda, J., Doucette, M., Lewis, D., Rotz, S., the Native Women’s Association of Canada, Tait Neufeld, H., Castleden H. (Accepted November 1, 2021). Implementing Indigenous Gender-Based Analysis in Research: Principles, Practices, and Lessons Learned. Environmental Research and Public Health, 18, 11572: 1-17. READ MORE

Walker, C., Doucette, M., Rotz, S., Lewis, D., Tait Neufeld, H., Castleden, H. (2021). Non-Indigenous partner perspectives on Indigenous Peoples’ involvement In renewable energy: Exploring reconciliation as relationships of accountability or status quo innocence? Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management (March 2021). READ MORE

Yeung, S., Rosenberg, M., Anand, S., Bannach, D., Mayotte, L., Lac La Ronge Indian Band Health Services, Fort McKay First Nation, Castleden, H. (Accepted November 7, 2021). Bonding social capital and health within four First Nations communities in Canada: A cross-sectional study. Social Science and Medicine – Population health. READ MORE

2020

Anand, S., Abonyi, S., Arbour, L., Balasubramanian, K., Brook, J., Castleden, H. & Toth, E. (Accpeted Nov 20, 2019). Explaining the variability in cardiovascular risk factors among First Nations communities in Canada: a population-based study. The Lancet-Planetary Health (3): e511–20. READ MORE

Bozkhov, E., Walker, C., McCourt, V., & Castleden, H. Are the natural sciences ready for Truth and Reconciliation in Canada? Exploring ‘Settler Readiness’ at a world-class freshwater research station. Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences. (Accepted March 17, 2020). READ MORE

Castleden, H., Darrach, M., Lin, J. (2020). The public health emergency of climate change: How/are Canadian postsecondary public health sciences programs responding? Canadian Journal of Public Health Special Issue: Moving on IPCC 1.5 °C: Exploring promising public health research, policy, and practice responses to environmental crisis in a warming world, 111(6), pp. 836-844. READ MORE

Hoicka, C., MacArthur, J., Castleden, H., Das. R., Lieu, J. (Accepted Jan 15, 2020). Forging Canada’s Green New Deal: The social foundations of climate resilient infrastructure. Energy and Social Science Research.

2019

Canadian Alliance of Healthy Hearts and Minds First Nations Cohort Research Team (Accepted Oct 29, 2019). “All About Us”: Indigenous Data Analysis Workshop – Capacity Building in the Canadian Alliance of Healthy Hearts and Minds First Nations Cohort. CJC Open READ MORE

Derek Kornelsen, Priscilla Apronti, Ken Paul, Jeff Masuda, Hannah Tait Neufeld, Heather Castleden. Yellowhead Institute Policy Brief, Issue 39, September 26, 2019. READ MORE

**Huu-ay-aht First Nations, Sloan Morgan, V., Calabretta, M., Nookemis, B., Aarssen, J. & Castleden, H. (2019). Implementing a modern treaty in British Columbia: Lived experiences from Huu-ay-aht First Nations—Maa-nulth Treaty signatories. Special Issue on Modern Treaty Implementation Research, Northern Public Affairs (November), 41-46. READ MORE

Pugh, A., Castleden, H., Giesbrecht, M., Crooks, V. (2019) Awareness as a dimension of health care access: Exploring the case of rural palliative care provision in Canada. Journal of Health Services Research & Policy.

Ratima, M., Martin, D., Castleden, H., & Delormier, T. (2019). Indigenous voices and knowledge systems–promoting planetary health, health equity, and sustainable development now and for future generations.Global Health Promotion, 26(3, suppl): 3-5. READ MORE

Sloan Morgan, V., Castleden, H., Huu-ay-aht First Nations. ‘Our Journey, Our Choice, Our Future’: Self-Government enacted through the Maa-nulth Treaty with British Columbia and Canada. (2019). Antipode.

Walker, C., Alexander, A., Doucette MB., Lewis, D., Tait Neufeld, H., Martin, D., Masuda, J., Stefanelli, R., Castleden, H. (August 2019). Are the pens working for justice? News media coverage of renewable energy involving Indigenous peoples in Canada. Energy Research and Social Science, 57 (2019): 1-14. READ MORE

Sylvestre, P., Castleden, H., Denis, J., Martin, D., Bombay, A. The tools at their fingertips: How settler colonial geographies shape medical educators’ strategies for grappling with Anti-Indigenous racism (Accepted June 10, 2019). Social Science & Medicine. READ MORE

2018

Anand, S. Abony, S., Arbour, L., Brook, J., Bruce, S., Castleden, H., Desai, D., de Souza, J., Harris, S., Irvine, J., MD, L., Lewis, D., Oster, D., Poirier, P., Toth, E., Bannon, K. Chrisjohn, V., Davis, D., L’Hommecourt, J., Littlechild, R., McMullin, K., McIntosh, S., Morrison, J., Picard, M., Pictou Landing First Nation (Paul, A.), Roulette, J., Tuevljak, J., Friedrich, M., Tu, J. (2018). Rationale, Design and Methods for the Canadian Alliance of Healthy Hearts and Minds Cohort Study (CAHHM) – First Nations Cohort Study. BMC Public Health, 16(1).

Martin, D., McNally, M., & Castleden, H. Worden-Driscoll, I., Clark, M., Wall, D., Ley, M. (2018) Linking Inuit knowledge and public health for improved child and youth oral health in NunatuKavut. JDR Clinical & Translational Research 3(3): 256-263. CA

Pugh, A., Castleden, H., Giesbrecht, M., Crooks, V. (Accepted December 17, 2018) Awareness as a dimension of health care access: Exploring the case of rural palliative care provision in Canada. Journal of Health Services Research & Policy.

Sloan Morgan, V., Castleden, H., Huu-ay-aht First Nations. (Accepted, November 12, 2018). “This is Going to Affect Our Lives”: Exploring Huu-ay-aht First Nations, the Government of Canada and British Columbia’s New Relationship Through the Implementation of the Maa-nulth Treaty. Canadian Journal of Law & Society, 33(3): 309-334. SA

Stefanelli, S., Walker, C., Kornelsen, K., Lewis, D., Martin, D., Masuda, J., Richmond, C., Root, E., Tait Neufeld, H., Castleden, H. (Accepted July 25, 2018). Renewable Energy and Energy Autonomy: How Indigenous Peoples in Canada are Shaping an Energy Future. Environmental Reviews. 1-11. CA/SA

Sylvestre, P., Castleden, H., Martin, D., & McNally, M. (2018).”Thank you very much… You can leave our community now!”: Geographies of responsibilities, relational ethics, acts of refusal, and the conflicting requirements of academics localities in Indigenous research. ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies 17(3): 750-779. MA/SA

Yeung, S., Bombay, A., Walker, C., Denis, J., Martin, D., Sylvestre, P., & Castleden, H. (December 18, 2018). Predictors of medical student interest in Indigenous health learning and clinical practice: a Canadian case study. BMC Medical Education, 18(1), 307.

2017

Anand, S. Abony, S., Arbour, L., Brook, J., Bruce, S., Castleden, H., Desai, D., de Souza, J., Harris, S., Irvine, J., MD, L., Lewis, D., Oster, D., Poirier, P., Toth, E., Bannon, K. Chrisjohn, V., Davis, D., L’Hommecourt, J., Littlechild, R., McMullin, K., McIntosh, S., Morrison, J., Picard, M., Pictou Landing First Nation (Paul, A.), Roulette, J., Tuevljak, J., Friedrich, M., Tu, J. (Accepted May 15, 2017). Rationale, Design and Methods for the Canadian Alliance of Healthy Hearts and Minds Cohort Study (CAHHM) – First Nations Cohort Study. BMC Public Health, 16(1).

Castleden, H., Bennett, E., Pictou Landing Native Women’s Group, Lewis, D., Martin, D. (2017). “Put it near the Indians”: Indigenous perspectives on pulp mill contaminants in their traditional territories (Pictou Landing, Canada). Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action, 11(1): 25-33.

Castleden, H., Hart, C., Harper, S., Martin, D., Cunsolo, A., Stefanelli, R., Day, D., & Lauridsen, K. (2017). Implementing Indigenous and Western knowledge systems in water research and management (Part 1): A systematic realist review to inform water policy in Canada. International Indigenous Policy Journal, 8(4).

Castleden, H., Hart, C., Martin, D., Cunsolo, A., Harper, S., Sylvestre, P., Stefanelli, R., Day, D., & Lauridsen, K. (2017). Implementing Indigenous and Western knowledge systems in water research and management (Part 2): Interviews with collaborative teams to overcome the limitations of literature reviews to inform water policy in Canada. International Indigenous Policy Journal, 8(4).

Daley, K., Truelstrup Hansen, L., Jamieson, R., Hayward, J., Piorkowski, G., KrKosek, W., Gagnon, G., Castleden, H., MacNeil, K., Poltarowicz, J., Corriveau, E., Jackson, A., Lywood, J., Huang, Y. (Accepted May 30, 2017). Chemical and microbial characteristics of municipal drinking water supply systems in the Canadian Arctic. Environmental Science and Pollution Research 25(33).

Day, L., Cunsolo A., Castleden, H., Martin, D., Hart, C., Anaviapik-Soucie, T., Russell, G., Paul, C., Dewey, C., and Harper, S. (Accepted June 10 2017). The Expanding Digital Media Landscape of Qualitative and Decolonizing Research: Examining Collaborative Podcasting as a Research Method. MediaTropes, 7(1): 203-228. MA
Garda, C., Castleden, H., & Conrad ,C. (2017). Monitoring, restoration, and source water protection: Canadian community-based environmental organizations’ efforts towards improving aquatic ecosystem health. Water, 9(3), 212.

Moore, C., Castleden, H., Martin, D., & Tirone, S. (Accepted Dec 16, 2016) Implementing the Tri-Council Policy on ethical research involving Indigenous peoples in Canada: So, how’s that going in Mi’kma’ki? International Indigenous Policy Journal.

Moore, M., Shaw, K., & Castleden, H. “We Need More Data!” The Politics of Scientific Information for Water Governance in the Context of Hydraulic Fracturing (Accepted January 17 2017). Water Alternatives, 11(1): 142-162.

Stefanelli, R., Castleden, H., Harper, S.L., Martin, D., Cunsolo, A., and Hart, C. (Accepted April 7, 2017). Canadian and Australian researchers’ reflections on implementing Indigenous and Western knowledge systems in water research and management. Water Policy.

Stefanelli, R., Castleden, H., Harper, S.L., Martin, D., Cunsolo, A., and Hart, C. (2017). Experiences with integrative Indigenous and Western knowledge implementation in water research and management: A systematic realist review of literature from Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States. Environmental Reviews, 25: 323-333.