Peter Evans, Ph.D Email & Phone Number

Victoria, Bc, And Wolfville, Ns

In 2013, I co-founded Trailmark Systems and Consulting. Trailmark brings together a team of social scientists, ecologists, and programmers in several cities across Canada committed to developing innovative crowd-sourcing techniques for land use and knowledge research, wildlife management, community-based monitoring, and communications and engagement. As CEO, I am helping my totally awesome team based in Victoria and Wolfville, NS, articulate new methods for understanding and minimizing the effects of resource extraction on hunting communities.

Canada

EverNorth provides a comprehensive suite of research, communications, and engagement expertise to its clients, focusing on the human dimensions of natural resource management in the North. Our projects have recently included mentoring/training in socio-cultural, geographical, and historical research (including traditional land and knowledge studies), impact assessments, aboriginal consultation, and community-based harvesting studies.

Victoria, Bc

Supported and conducted community-based research, consultation, and engagement; and undertook reporting activities with Aboriginal communities on behalf of public, aboriginal, and private sector clients. Also undertook historical, land use, and traditional knowledge studies and reporting to help define Aboriginal interests and support project and community development.

Cambridge, Uk

Run multi-faceted interdisciplinary social science research project on aboriginal/state relations in the Canadian North. Research includes extensive field and archival work on traditional governance knowledge, community liaison work, ethnohistorical interviews and participatory fieldwork on Inuit traditional governance, and preparation and communication of research findings to aboriginal and non-aboriginal audiences.

Victoria, Bc

Planned, produced, and executed strategic communications for diverse audiences in support of the BC government's policies and programs concerning Aboriginal people, including the treaty process, the New Relationship, and the Recognition Act. Consulted with ministry and other staff on communications matters. Tracked, monitored, and managed issues arising from the government's work. Monitored and conducted research on historic, legal, and socio-political issues relating to aboriginal/state relations.

Canada

Conducted freelance ethno-historical, genealogical, social effects, and legal research for various aboriginal clients, other contractors, and public and private sector clients in BC, Newfoundland, and Quebec. Developed and delivered communications capacity training programs for Inuit audiences in Northern Labrador. Widely published in Canada as a journalist. Specialized in magazine non-fiction and print journalism, focusing on human social and ecological relationships: fisheries and game management, forest ecology, rural society, regional history, and aboriginal/non-aboriginal relations.

Halifax, Nova Scotia

Co-planned, wrote, and edited Eastern Canada's largest outdoor conservation magazine, specialized in freshwater fisheries, hunting, forestry, and wildlife conservation (Eastern Woods & Waters). Writer and Assistant Editor of quarterly journal on salmonid fisheries conservation (Atlantic Salmon Journal). Staff Writer and Assistant Editor to large bimonthly Atlantic Canadian lifestyle magazine dedicated to rural life and communities (Saltscapes).

Nain, Nunatsiavut

Planned, wrote, edited, and managed a regional English-Inuktitut magazine for Inuit of Labrador, in conjunction with a harmonized federal-provincial environmental assessment of the Voisey's Bay nickel/copper/cobalt development. Specialized in environmental assessments, land claims negotiations and consultation, mineral exploration and development, Northern socio-economic and cultural issues, fish and wildlife issues, and Aboriginal rights and title issues. Also developed and delivered communications training programs for Inuit journalists.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Geography / Anthropology

Master Of Philosophy (M.Phil.), Geography / Anthropology

Bachelor Of Journalism

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Classics / Contemporary Studies