Press Release in the Peterborough Examiner 28 Oct, 2009
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An Australian professor who researches northern Indigenous
populations has been announced as the 2010 Roberta Bondar Postdoctoral Fellow in
Northern and Polar Studies.
Scott Heyes is a landscape architecture lecturer at Australia's University of
Melbourne. Heyes has a PhD from McGill University, and has researched Indigenous
conceptions of landscape for nearly a decade, including fieldwork with the Inuit
of Arctic Quebec, a Trent University release stated.
His current research project is developing a dictionary of sea-ice terms for
an Inuit community as part of a knowledge preservation project and is
investigating how the Aborigines in Southern Australia have historically
modified the land fior better fishing. He is also researching how the Inuit have
been involved in designing and determining Arctic parks in northern Quebec.
"I am looking forward to travelling from Melbourne, Australia, to
Peterborough, Canada and to collaborating with the enthusiastic faculty and
students at Trent. I am grateful to have been given this opportunity to build
upon my research in the Arctic and to contribute to the teaching of Indigenous
studies in such an esteemed academic setting," Heyes stated in the release.
His year-long residency at Trent will start on Feb. 1, 2010, and he will
teach an undergraduate course and deliver two public lectures. As the Bondar
Fellow he plans to pursue studies of Inuit conceptions of land and sea, and
Inuit's sense of attachment to the environment in the face of changing social
and physical settings.
The fellowship is a postdoctoral teaching and research award, intended to
attract up and coming northern scholars to Trent for one academic year. Named
for former Trent chancellor Roberta Bondar it is intended to foster interest in
Northern Studies at Trent and is based at the Frost Centre for Canadian Studies
and Indigenous Studies.
The program's director is pleased Heyes was named the second Bondar fellow.
"His research intersects with the interests of faculty in Environmental
Studies, Environmental Studies, Indigenous Studies, Geography and Anthropology,"
Julia Harrison stated in the release.
"He will be a great resource for both graduate and undergraduate students and
undoubtedly a stimulating colleague for faculty across the University."
