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Lee Beavington, PhD

@wildethic.bsky.social
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Eco-social justice. Biologist, poet, place-based educator. Indigenous wisdom. Nature photographer. Neurodivergent-affirming. Peter Gabriel music video creator. My LinkTree: linktr.ee/leebeavington

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Lee Beavington, PhD @wildethic.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Watch my keynote! Three anchors: being authentic, using storytelling, and connecting to place. For UNBC's Teaching & Learning Conference. I talk about decolonization, inclusive education, and being neurodiverse-affirming. Shoutouts to Seanna Takacs and Gillian Judson. video.unbc.ca/media/id/0_j...
Title slide for Powerpoint keynote presentation. Left side has a photo (by Lee Beavington) of bark whorls of a Douglas-fir. On the right is the text Learning in Place: Nature & Neuroinclusiviity, UNBC, August 2026, Lee Beavington, PhD
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Lee Beavington, PhD @wildethic.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
A box of magic arrived... A box singing with music. A box spilling extraordinary art. A box of avian mythology. In Thin Air, 3rd album by @spellsongs.bsky.social. A gift of seven wonders: egg, nest, beak, song, feather, flight and migration. @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social @juliefowlis.bsky.social
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Lee Beavington, PhD @wildethic.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I’m here at UNBC in Prince George to deliver my keynote tomorrow, on Learning in Place: Nature and Neuroinclusivity. What a gorgeous campus and location.
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Lee Beavington, PhD @wildethic.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
An amazing new course being offered by Dr. Dale Tracy at @kwantlenu.bsky.social. ENGL 3362: Environment & Literature Tue, 1-4pm, fall 2026, Surrey campus @kpumedia.bsky.social @kpuarts.bsky.social
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Lee Beavington, PhD @wildethic.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Join us for a virtual book club discussion with KPU Indigenous Storyteller in Residence, Katłı̨̀ą, on her book, Mother Earth is our Elder: A Northern Indigenous Perspective on the Climate Crisis. Register: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/cc678c... @kpumedia.bsky.social @kwantlenu.bsky.social
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Lee Beavington, PhD @wildethic.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
New resource! Place-based Education with an Indigenous Lens. I created this content in consultation with Indigenous colleagues at KPU, and Andrea Votto designed the website. wordpress.kpu.ca/place-based-... @kwantlenu.bsky.social @kpuarts.bsky.social @kwantlenu.bsky.social @kpuscience.bsky.social
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Lee Beavington, PhD @wildethic.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
This Thursday! www.yorku.ca/cifal/back-o...
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Lee Beavington, PhD @wildethic.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Spring 2026 Wild Spaces events! To register use QR code in poster or this link: wordpress.kpu.ca/wildspaces/e...
Wild Spaces poster showing spring 2026 events. Three people are walking out of a grassy area near the bottom. Open to students and employees. Come and join us this season and learn from the land. No experience needed. 
Mar. 18 (Surrey) - Table at SDG Month Fair, with Krystal Charlston's LeArNing[D] sculptural installation
Mar. 26 (online) - Book Club - Theory of Water by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Apr. 8 (Richmond) - Nature and Neurodiversity: What the Natural World Offers Learners
May 8 (Surrey) - The Trees of KPU Surrey (part of KPU Day)
Jun. 10 (Langley) - Pollinator Walk

To register, and for full details:
https://wordpress.kpu.ca/wildspaces/event-registration/
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Lee Beavington, PhD @wildethic.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Join us for our next book club! Mar. 26 discussion. Theory of Water by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson Climate+ Challenge and Wild Spaces Book Club Open to everyone. www.kpu.ca/library/book... @biidaasamose.bsky.social @kwantlenu.bsky.social @kpumedia.bsky.social @kpuarts.bsky.social
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Lee Beavington, PhD @wildethic.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
My chapter, "River in the Sky: The Fraser River Floods", appears in the book Poetic Inquiry for Synchrony and Love. cgscholar.com/publishers/b...
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Lee Beavington, PhD @wildethic.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Next Thursday. bccampus.ca/events/ #education #teaching #university #bccampus #BCTLC #westcoast
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Lee Beavington, PhD @wildethic.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Amazing project: “The River Knows What It Needs: Our Responsibilities to the Fraser,” documents a community dialogue about the health and revitalization of the Fraser Watershed, as situated within the laws of the Land since time immemorial. salmonasfamily.ca/about/river/ #river #Indigenous #SFU
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Lee Beavington, PhD @wildethic.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
The final Wild Spaces event of the year! An online webinar with Bridget McClarty on Awe, Relationship & Nature Connection. Details: www.kpu.ca/events/wild-... @kwantlenu.bsky.social @kpumedia.bsky.social #wildspaces #nature #education #natureconnection
Four people walking into a forest. Text: Wild Spaces. Awe & Nature Connection. Open to students, staff & faculty. Dec. 3, 12pm, online.
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Lee Beavington, PhD @wildethic.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
River walk photos! With Cougar Creek Streamkeepers. Next week: Awe, Relationship, and Nature Connection w/ Bridget McClarty Wild Spaces registration: form.jotform.com/252744797551... (Photos by Arts Practicum student Jenn Hayward) @kwantlenu.bsky.social @kpuarts.bsky.social @kpumedia.bsky.social
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Lee Beavington, PhD @wildethic.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
The Runner interviewed me on the Decolonizing Educational Practices website I created in collaboration with dozens of others, as well as our community of practice. Link here: linktr.ee/leebeavington @kwantlenu.bsky.social @kpumedia.bsky.social @kpuarts.bsky.social @kpupolicystudies.bsky.social
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Lee Beavington, PhD @wildethic.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
My favourite Wild Spaces event of the year: our annual A River Walk in a Salmon Forest with Cougar Creek Streamkeepers! This Tuesday. Session is full. You can put your name on the waitlist in case of last minute cancellations. Register: form.jotform.com/252744797551... @kwantlenu.bsky.social
A group of participants standing next to Cougar Creek. Text: Wild Spaces. A River Walk in a Salmon Forest. Open to students, staff and faculty. November 18th, 2pm, KPU Surrey.
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Lee Beavington, PhD @wildethic.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Photos from the 41st event hosted by Wild Spaces! The Body as Geography with Parthi Krishnan. Next week: A River Walk in a Salmon Forest. (Photos by me and Arts Practicum student Jenn Hayward) @kwantlenu.bsky.social @kpuarts.bsky.social @kpumedia.bsky.social @kpupolicystudies.bsky.social
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Lee Beavington, PhD @wildethic.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Join us next week as we discuss the fascinating book Is a River Alive? by @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social. How did a river in India get erased? How do cloud forests carry rivers in the earth, land and sky? What does it mean to be enrivered? www.kpu.ca/library/book... @kwantlenu.bsky.social #wildspaces
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Lee Beavington, PhD @wildethic.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Still a few spots left for next week's event, The Body as Geography with KPU geographer Parthi Krishnan! Sign up here: form.jotform.com/252744797551... @kwantlenu.bsky.social @kpuarts.bsky.social @kpumedia.bsky.social @kpupolicystudies.bsky.social #wildspaces #geography #education #university
A group of participants are walking over a grass field. Text: Wild Spaces. The Body as Geography. Open to students, staff and faculty. November 6th, 12pm, KPU Surrey.
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Lee Beavington, PhD @wildethic.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
What a wonderful Fungi Forest Walk with KPU lab biology technician (and marvellous mycologist) Emily Betz! Sign up for upcoming Wild Spaces events here: form.jotform.com/252744797551... @kwantlenu.bsky.social @kpumedia.bsky.social @kpuarts.bsky.social
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Lee Beavington, PhD @wildethic.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Only a couple spots left! Fungi Forest Walk next Tuesday at KPU Surrey. Register: form.jotform.com/252744797551... @kwantlenu.bsky.social @kpuarts.bsky.social @kpumedia.bsky.social @kpupolicystudies.bsky.social #wildspaces #education #nature #university #fungi
Poster showing a mushroom in hand. Text: Wild Spaces, Fungi Forest Walk. Open to students, staff & faculty. October 21, 3pm, KPU Surrey.
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Lee Beavington, PhD @wildethic.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Fall Wild Spaces events: form.jotform.com/252744797551...
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Lee Beavington, PhD @wildethic.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
This semester's book club choice is very close to my heart: Is a River Alive? by @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social. www.kpu.ca/library/book...
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Lee Beavington, PhD @wildethic.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
I made a music video for @itspetergabriel.bsky.social. He will release it tomorrow, July 17. Here’s a screenshot of the creative process from Final Cut Pro.
Screenshot from Final Cut Pro, showing a still of a slug eating in the top right corner. The clips that comprise the music video are shown (without detail) in the bottom portion of the screenshot.
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Lee Beavington, PhD @wildethic.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
When you're a mega fan of Rivers, @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social, @stanleydonwood.bsky.social, and @fieldnotesbrand.bsky.social.
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Lee Beavington, PhD @wildethic.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Now online! Indigenous Pedagogies, today at noon. Join Shannon Leddy, author of Teaching Where you Are, for a talk on Weaving Indigenous and Slow Principles and Pedagogies. Open to all. Message me for link. #Indigenous #decolonize #education #university #teaching @kwantlenu.bsky.social
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Lee Beavington, PhD @wildethic.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
I'm leading an online writing workshop next Tuesday. Open to everyone. Let's get creative together! This workshop is inspired by Felicia Rose Chavez' The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How to Decolonize the Creative Classroom Register here: www.kpu.ca/learningcent... @kwantlenu.bsky.social
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Lee Beavington, PhD @wildethic.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Salish Sea Assembly, water defender event. Open to everyone! This great event is next Tuesday, May 27, at the Totest Aleng Indigenous Learning House in South Surrey: www.surrey.ca/arts-culture...
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Lee Beavington, PhD @wildethic.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Land-based learning this Thu! Join us for a walk & talk with Sonya Ballantyne, KPU's Indigenous Filmmaker/Writer in Residence. Award-winning filmmaker, founder of Code Breaker Films & named a Barbie Role Model. Register: form.jotform.com/251115316175... @kwantlenu.bsky.social @kpuarts.bsky.social
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Lee Beavington, PhD @wildethic.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Wild Spaces summer speaker series just announced! Full details and to register: form.jotform.com/251115316175... Open to the KPU community. If you are external to KPU and would like to join us please send me a note. @kwantlenu.bsky.social @kpuarts.bsky.social @kpupolicystudies.bsky.social
Poster showing attendees in a Wild Spaces event last year, looking for pollinators at the Westerman property on the KPU Surrey campus. 

May 8  – Sonya Ballantyne (The Three Times Bono Saved my Life)
May 29 – Shannon Leddy (Indigenous Pedagogies)
June 4 – Kristen Penhall (Pollinator Walk)

Rain or shine. Meet by main courtyard pond.

Events start at 12 noon. Meet by main courtyard pond.

With support from The Teaching & Learning Commons

QR code provided. Link to register: https://form.jotform.com/251115316175045
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Lee Beavington, PhD @wildethic.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Summer course: Corporate Accountability and Historical Justice ⁨Study mechanisms developed to hold corporations accountable for their actions, particularly human rights violations and environmental degradation. Taught by Fabricio Telo. @kwantlenu.bsky.social @kpuarts.bsky.social
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Lee Beavington, PhD @wildethic.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Recently finished Is a River Alive? by @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social. A profound book utterly relevant to the world today. Stunningly written and researched. Rivers run through everything, and we need to honour and protect them. I will read this again and bring this book into my teaching and research.
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Lee Beavington, PhD @wildethic.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
New course: Green Criminology. I wish this course existed when I was a student! Looking for an interesting class to take this summer? Care about nature, environmental justice, and getting outside of the classroom?
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Lee Beavington, PhD @wildethic.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Our final session of the Indigenous Speaker Series is with the incredibly knowledgeable Robert Jago. The first three events filled up so sign up fast! Wed, Mar. 26, 1pm, outdoors at KPU Surrey Open to students, staff and faculty Details and to register: form.jotform.com/250496841196...
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Lee Beavington, PhD @wildethic.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Decolonizing Educational Practices. Meaningful territorial acknowledgements, cultivating cultural safety, authentic Indigenous resources, relational and place-based teaching, and more. I created this website in collaboration with many others. @kwantlenu.bsky.social wordpress.kpu.ca/decolonization
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Lee Beavington, PhD @wildethic.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Indigenous Speaker Series starts tomorrow! Open to the KPU community. Full details and to register: form.jotform.com/250496841196...
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Lee Beavington, PhD @wildethic.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Find Your Writing Voice workshop next Wednesday. www.kpu.ca/learningcent...
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Lee Beavington, PhD @wildethic.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Once again our cats remind me of the best things in life.
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Lee Beavington, PhD @wildethic.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
New Zealand. Hobbits, poets, Fernery, and Thom Yorke. #poeticinquiry #Hobbiton #fernery #thomyorke
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Lee Beavington, PhD @wildethic.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Hosted two Wild Spaces events in Nov. Fungi Forest Walk (with Emily Betz) and A River Walk in a Salmon Forest (with Erika Eliason & Cougar Creek Streamkeepers). Co-hosted by the Office of Sustainability. Great discoveries, conversations, and connections. Wild Spaces: wordpress.kpu.ca/wildspaces
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Lee Beavington, PhD @wildethic.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
New course @ KPU! INDG/BIOL 1492 – Indigenous Perspectives in Biology Instructors: Anthony Fernandes & Lee Beavington Open to all KPU students
Poster shows several people walking into the forest. Link to KPU's registration page is provided as https://www.kpu.ca/registration/register-classes. All other information provided is in the social media post, including:

INDG/BIOL 1492 – Indigenous Perspectives in Biology
Tuesdays, 1-4pm, KPU Surrey, in-person (spring 2025)
Instructors: Anthony Fernandes & Lee Beavington
Open to all KPU students
Prerequisites: 12 credits
Can count toward Arts credit for Science, or Science credit for Arts
Can also count toward minor in Indigenous Community Justice
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Lee Beavington, PhD @wildethic.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Updated poster with current QR code
Job posting poster with six people standing around a tree at KPU Langley. Made possible by funding from the xéʔelɬ KPU Pathway to Systemic Transformation.
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Lee Beavington, PhD @wildethic.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
KPU Wild Spaces, with funding from the xéʔelɬ KPU Pathway to Systemic Transformation, is hiring two Indigenous research assistants. Job posting: tre.tbe.taleo.net/tre01/ats/ca... Open until filled. Salary is $21/hour. Applicants must be current KPU students.
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Lee Beavington, PhD @wildethic.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
New Wild Spaces blog: Forgotten History of Poplar Island. This local island has connections with the Qayqayt First Nation. Read about Poplar Island’s development over the years, as well as its dark colonial past. By Arts Practicum student Iuliia Astashova. wordpress.kpu.ca/wildspaces/2...
Poplar Island full of trees, showing the stɑl̓əw̓/Fraser River in front.
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