Trevor Wideman

Dr. Trevor Wideman is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Vancouver Island University. His interdisciplinary work explores health policy and municipal/organizational governance in smaller B.C. cities, and how these intersect with lived experiences of the toxic drug and housing crises. More broadly, his research examines how land use planning, municipal governance, and property ownership affect health and social crises in Canadian cities.

Previously, at the University of Toronto, his SSHRC-funded postdoc examined land use planning, property, and housing advocacy in Vancouver and Toronto. He holds a PhD in Geography from Simon Fraser University, where he studied the foundations of professional land use planning in Vancouver and Winnipeg (c.1910–1940). He also holds an MA from Queen’s and a BA (Hons) from the University of Manitoba. As part of the Right to Remain project, he worked with Vancouver housing and human rights groups looking at the effects of planning processes on health and housing security in the Downtown Eastside. He is a member of the Place + Space Collective and has served on the executive committee of the Canadian Association of Geographers.