Biography

dr. nick stanger specializes in environmental education, focusing on eco-sociology, centring Indigenous futures, and the other-than-human world. He has had the privilege of working with Indigenous educators worldwide for more than 20 years, exploring the interactions among environmental and Indigenous ways of knowing. Working with decolonizing methods, Nick engages with multi-modal community-based research that takes direction from local First Nations. Nick is the Associate Director for W̱SÁNEĆ College, helping to develop Indigenous post-secondary education. He recently worked at Southern Cross University's Faculty of Education. He continues as an Associate Professor of environmental education at the College of the Environment at Western Washington University and Associate Adjunct Professor at the University of Victoria's School of Environmental Studies.

Research

His research uses an educationalist lens and participatory techniques to understand environmental sociology, ecological identity, transformative places, and Indigenous responses to climate change. He pursues projects that utilize his unique background as an ecologist, conservationist, educator, and knowledge mobilizer, and look for ways to support participants and provide nuance and complexity to pressing issues. He aims to understand, mobilize, and help create space for Indigenous communities to tell their stories of resurgence, cultural adaptation, and sovereignty all while helping find pathways, protocol, and critical understandings amongst settler-colonial communities.