CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS

1. Design concepts of storytelling centres for indigenous communities
2. History and fieldnotes of Lucien M. Turner, Smithsonian anthropologist (1880s)
   
3. Arctic "Gardens"
   
4. Landscape and Language - sea-ice dictionary project for Kangiqsualujjuaq
5. Protected areas and national parks in indigenous communities
   
6. Tidal nomenclature project for Northern Quebec
   
7. Landscape modifications by Australian Aborigines per-settlement for fishery enterprises. See Murray Crusaders at Australian Geographic online
   

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH

I am currently engaged with scholars on research projects at the following institutions:

• Arctic Studies Center, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C
• McGill University, Montreal
• Universite de Montreal, Canada
• Frost Centre, Trent University, Canada
  

PUBLICATIONS
(links are provided to publications available online)

Heyes, S.A 2011. "Recovering and Celebrating Inuit Knowledge through Design: The Making of a Virtual Storytelling Space," IKTC Conference Proceedings, Windhoek, Namibia. ISBN 978-99945-72-37-3. PDF

Heyes, S.A 2011. Roberta Bondar Postdoctoral Fellowship Report, Frost Report: A Review of the 2010-2011 Academic Year, Frost Centre, Trent University, Peterborough, Canada, p. 6. PDF

Heyes, S.A. 2011. "Cracks in the Knowledge: Sea Ice Terms in Kangiqsualujjuaq, Nunavik," Canadian Geographer 55 (1), p. 69-90. PDF.

Heyes, S.A. 2011. "Lucien M. Turner in Ungava Bay, 1882-1884: Raising Awareness of his Remarkable Contributions to Anthropology and other Scientific Fields", Arctic Studies Center Newsletter (18), Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., p. 27-29. PDF.

Heyes, S.A. 2011. “Chapter 9. Between the trees and the tides: Inuit ways of discriminating space in a coastal and boreal landscape”. In Landscape in Language, Mark, David M., Andrew G. Turk, Niclas Burenhult and David Stea (eds.), John Benjamins Publishing, Amsterdam, p.187–223. ISBN: 978 90 272 0286 4

Heyes, S.A. 2010. "Réveiller les récits d’un paysage arctique [Awakening the Stories of an Arctic Landscape]," in Les Inuit et les Cris du nord du Québec: Territoire, gouvernance, société et culture [Cree and Inuit of Northern Quebec: Territory, governance, society, and culture}, ed. J.G. Petit, Y.B. Viger, P. Aatami, and A. Iserhoff, Presses universitaires de Rennes, Rennes, p. 301-314. ISBN 978-2-7535-1248-1. PDF

Heyes, S.A 2010. Roberta Bondar Postdoctoral Fellowship Report, Frost Report: A Review of the 2009-2010 Academic Year, Frost Centre, Trent University, Peterborough, Canada, p. 8-9. PDF

Heyes, S.A. 2010, “Water: The lifeblood of a landscape, the heart of the seasons,” in Adelaide: Water of a City, ed. C. Daniels, Wakefield Press, Adelaide, p. 146-149. ISBN: 9781862548619.

Heyes, S.A & Jacobs, P. 2008, “Losing Place: Diminishing Traditional Knowledge of the Arctic Coastal Landscape,” in Making Sense of Place: exploring concepts and expressions of place through different senses and lenses, ed. F. Vanclay, J. Malpas, M. Higgins, & A. Blackshaw, National Museum of Australia, Canberra, pp. 135-154. ISBN: 9781876944513 PDF

Heyes, S.A. 2007. Inuit Knowledge and Perceptions of the Land-Water Interface, PhD Dissertation, Dept of Geography, McGill University, Canada.
PDF (170Mb) or PDF.

Heyes, S.A. 2002, Inuit and scientific ways of knowing and seeing the Arctic Landscape, Master of Landscape Architecture Thesis, School of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design, Adelaide University, Australia.  PDF (11 Mb)

Heyes, S.A. 2002, “Protecting the Authenticity and Integrity of Inuksuit within the Arctic Milieu,” Inuit Studies, vol. 26, no. 1-2, pp. 133-156. PDF

Heyes, S.A. Jacobs, P. & Puttayuk, P. 2001, "Landscape Perception and Way-finding in the Arctic, Kerb, RMIT University, Melbourne, no 10. PDF

Heyes, S.A. 1999. The Kaura Calendar: Seasons of the Adelaide Plains, Honours Paper, School of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design, Adelaide University, Australia.  PDF (2 Mb)

Heyes, S.A. 1999. Kaurna Interpretive Park, Final Project Report A, School of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design, Adelaide University, Australia.  PDF (7 Mb)

ACADEMIC POSTERS

Heyes, S.A. 2010. Inuit terms and knowledge of sea ice. A poster presented at the 2010 Smithsonian Institution "Inside-out" Folklife Festival, Washington DC, Arctic Studies Center, National Museum of Natural History. PDF

Heyes, S.A. 2008. Aboriginal Fishtrap. A poster presented at the Cultural Waters Exhibition, Curated by S Heyes, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, the University of Melbourne. PDF (10 Mb)

Heyes, S.A. 2008. Cultural Waters: Reflections on Ngarrindjeri connections to the Coorong and Lower Lakes, South Australia. A poster presented at the Cultural Waters Exhibition, Curated by S Heyes, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, the University of Melbourne. PDF

Heyes, S.A. 2007. Diminishing Knowledge: Inuit Nomenclature of the Coast. A Poster presented at the ArcticNet Annual Scientific Meeting, Collingwood, Ontario, 11-14 December. PDF (12 Mb)

Heyes, S.A. 2004, The Transmission of Inuit Knowledge of the Land-Water Interface: A Poster, Arctic Coastal Dynamics Symposium, Dept of Geography, McGill University, Montreal. PDF (7 Mb)

KEYWORDS
(Keywords associated with my Canadian-related publications)

Inuit navigation; wayfinding; Inukshuk; Inuksuit; Inuit drawings; Inuit maps; Inuit children's drawings; Arctic maps; Nunavik; Quaqtaq; Kangiqsualujjuaq; George River; Ungava Bay; Quebec-Labrador Peninsula; Hudson Bay Company; acculturation; Inuktitut; knowledge transmission; hunting patterns; Inuit myths; storytelling; protected areas; Indigenous homelands; epistemology; oral history; senses of place; Inuit knowledge; interpretive centres

(Keywords associated with my Australian-related publications)

Kaurna; Adelaide; Indigenous conceptions of landscape; Australia; Coorong; Ngarrinderji; Gundjitimara; seasonal calendars; Aboriginal fish traps; fish pounds; Lake Alexandrina, Murray River; water; interpretive centres