Diana Lewis

Assistant Professor

Diana Lewis

Contact Information

Office: Room 3213, SSC
Tel: 519 661-2111, 85103
E-mail: diana.lewis@uwo.ca

 

Research Interests

Indigenous environmental health, Indigenous methodology, quantitative methods, community-based research, risk/environmental assessment, social/environmental justice.


Teaching

IS 1020 – Introduction to Indigenous Studies

IS 2218 – Contemporary Issues in Indigenous Studies

GEO 9108 – Qualitative Methods


Supervised Graduate Students and Theses Titles

PhD Students

  • E. Beacock (joint-supervised) (Current) Exploring manifestations of (de)colonization in the structures and processes of collaborative research for Indigenous health and environments.

Masters Students

  • S. Mendizabal (2023) For The Love Of A'se'k: Piktukowaq's (Re)Assertion Of Autonomy In Pursuit Of A Healthier Community, Lands, Waters, And Future Generations
  • C. Glennie (co-supervised) (2019) Inuit Girls Make Media: Participatory Action Research in Rankin Inlet

Publications

Refereed Journals

Lewis, D., Castleden, H., Apostle, R., Francis, S. & Francis-Strickland, K. (2020). Government fiduciary failure in Indigenous environmental health justice: The case of Pictou Landing First Nation. International Journal of Indigenous Health. Vol. 15

Lewis, D., Castleden, H., Apostle, R., Francis, S. & Francis-Strickland, K. (2020). Linking land displacement and environmental dispossession to Indigenous health and wellbeing: Culturally relevant place-based interpretative frameworks matter. The Canadian Geographer. DOI: 10.1111/cag.1265

Lewis, D., Francis, S., Francis-Strickland, K., Castleden, H. & Apostle, R. (2020). If only they had accessed the data: Governmental failure to monitor pulp mill impacts on human health in Pictou Landing First Nation. Social Science and Medicine. DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113184

Lewis, D., Jones, R. & Williams, Lewis. (2020). A radical revision of the public health response to environmental crisis in a warming world: Contributions of Indigenous knowledge and Indigenous feminist perspectives. Canadian Journal of Public Health. DOI: 10.17269/s41997-020-00388-1

Anand, S., Shrikant, B., Castleden, H., Davis, D., Desai, D., de Souza R., Kandasamy, S., Lewis, D. & Sergeant, A. (2019). “All About Us”: Indigenous Data Analysis Workshop Capacity Building in the Canadian Alliance for Healthy Hearts and Minds First Nations Cohort: Canadian Alliance for Healthy Hearts and Minds First Nations Cohort Research Team. Canadian Journal of Cardiology (CJC), Open 1, . 282-288. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cjco.2019.09.002

Walker, C., Alexander, A., Doucette, M.B., Lewis, D., Tait Neufeld, H., Martin, D., Masuda, J., Stefanelli, R. & Castleden, H. (2019). Are the pens working for justice? News media coverage of renewable energy involving Indigenous Peoples in Canada. Energy Research and Social Science., 57, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2019.101230

 

Chapters in Books

Masuda, J., Abernethy, P., David, L. & Lewis, D. (2017). Mobilities of wellbeing in children’s environmental health equity: Confronting urban-rural dichotomies through practice perspectives. In Ergler, C. & Kearns, R. (Eds.). Children’s health and wellbeing in urban environments . (207-222). London, UK: Geographies of Health series Routledge Press.

Castleden, H. Martin, D. & Lewis, D. (2016). From embedded in to marginalized out of place: Indigenous peoples’ experience of health in Canada. In Crooks, V. & Giesbrecht, M. (Eds). Place, Health & Diversity: A Canadian Perspective.. London, UK: Geographies of Health series Routledge Press.