Will Valley

University of British Columbia, PhD, Sustainable Food System Education

University of British Columbia, BEd, Secondary Sciences

University of British Columbia, BSc, General Biology

Will's research interests include:

• Sustainable Food Systems Education
• Systems Thinking and Cognitive Psychology
• School Food and Nutrition Education + K-12 School Food Systems
• Community-Engaged Scholarship
• Urban Agriculture

• LFS 100: Introduction to Land and Food Systems
• LFS 250: Land, Food and Community I
• LFS 350: Land Food and Community II
• LFS 400: Audio Storytelling

Rojas, A., Black, J., Orrego, E., Chapman, G., & Valley, W. (2017). Insights from the Think&EatGreen@School Project: How a community-based action research project contributed to healthy and sustainable school food systems in Vancouver. Canadian Food Studies / La Revue Canadienne Des éTudes Sur L’alimentation, 4(2), 25-46.

Valley, W., Wittman, H., Jordan, N., Ahmed, S., & Galt, R. (2017). An emerging signature pedagogy for sustainable food systems education. Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems, 1-14. doi:10.1017/S1742170517000199

Valley, W., Fu, G., & Jovel, E. (2017). Preparing students for complexity and uncertainty: Flexible Learning strategies for developing environmental professionals. In Envisioning futures for environmental and sustainability education (Eds. Corcoran, P.B., Weakland, J.P., & Wals, A.E.J.). Wageningen Academic Publishers. pp. 217–228. Access: http://www.wageningenacademic.com/doi/abs/10.3920/978-90-8686-846-9_15

Valley, W. and Wittman, H. (2016). Urban Agriculture in Vancouver, BC: motivations, meanings, and multi-functionality. In The Governance of City Food Systems: Case Studies From Around The World. (Eds. Deakin, M., Diamantini, D., & Borrelli, N.). Milano: Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Foundation. pp. 41-61. Retrieved from http://www.fondazionefeltrinelli.it/article/ebook-utopie-the-governance-of-city-food-systems-case-studies-from-around-the-world/

Cassidy, A., Fu, G., Valley, W., Lomas, C., Jovel, E., & Riseman, A. (2016). Flexible Learning Strategies in First through Fourth-Year Courses. Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 9(0), 83–94.