Theresa Healy

About Theresa Healy

I am an Assistant Professor with the School of Planning and Sustainability and Adjunct Professor in the Gender Studies Program at UNBC. My skills include qualitative research, social planning, healthy communities, with a focus on public health and municipal planning. My passion: Participatory/Action Research which also serves my pedagogy.

Areas of Expertise

Community Development, Food Systems, Community Health and Safety, Inclusionary and Accessibility Planning, Land Use Planning and Governance, Planning History or History, Regional Planning, Anti-racism Planning

Selected Publications

S Blackstock, V Josewski, T, Healy, D Porter. Weaving Wisdom: The co-creation, co-implementation, and co-evaluation of a strategic framework for decolonizing nursing in northern and rural First Nations, Métis, and Inuit contexts. Canadian Asscoaition of Nursing Schools. (CASN). Looking to the Future (Nov. 2023)
Healy, T. et al. Who’s at the table: an exploration of community-based food security initiatives and structures in a north-central Canadian context, Community Development Journal, 2023;,, Groulx, M., Wigglesworth, J., Healy, T., Lamb, H., Harris, N., Harding, P., Brown, S. & Lemieux, C. (2022). Nature for All: Workshop report. University of Northern British Columbia., Magda Aguiar, Glory Apantaku, John Grogan, Theresa Healy, Mark Harrison, Attilio Fiumarella, Cora McIntosh, Curt Gesch, David Greenberg, Elaine Storey, Judy Bergman, Lynn Box, New Hope Society Members, Penína Sara-Lynn Harding. (2022) Through a Northern Lens: A Community View on Health and Wellbeing in Northern BC.

Recent Courses Taught

ENPL 205: Environment and Society (September, 2023)
ENPL 304: Community Engagement Studio (September, 2023) , Special topics ENPL 498: 1. The Gendered City (September, 2023) &
2. ENPL 498: Where the Land Meets Policy (September, 2023)
ENPL 409/609: Advanced Indigenous Community Development (Studio course) (January 2024)