Jason Young

Associate faculty

Environment & Sustainability

Jason Young teaches in the Master of Arts in Environmental Education and Communication program. His work focuses on reframing environmental issues to foster creative modalities of engagement. His interdisciplinary research ranges across nature-culture dynamics, (eco)phenomenology, process philosophy, systems thinking and various post-human perspectives. Young takes an open-minded and adventurous approach to the academic enterprise and is committed to transformative approaches in learning and teaching.

Experience

Young has more than 10 years of professional experience working in the environmental field including environmental consulting, field biology, sustainability studies and conservation. He received his PhD from Queen's University where his research in the School of Environmental Studies focused on the role of imagination in an age of planetary emergency. Young has worked for various sustainability initiatives and remains dedicated to fostering ways of being that move beyond the dominant paradigm towards inclusive, ecologically resistant futures. 

Education

2023
PhD in Environmental Studies

Queen's University

2018
Master of Arts in Environmental Education and Communication (with distinction)

Royal Roads University

Awards

2018
Chancellor's Award

Royal Roads University

2018
Founders' Award

Royal Roads University