About

Cher Hill, PhD

Cher Hill, PhD is a community-engaged researcher, a practitioner-scholar, and an award-winning  educator. She is deeply invested in advancing educative experiences that contribute to more connected, thriving, and just communities.

Central to Dr. Hill’s work is collaborative knowledge creation and mobilization that spans diverse knowledge systems. For Cher, knowledge and action are intertwined. She prioritizes projects that have the potential to contribute to flourishing within communities (both human and more-than-human). As a scholar she focuses on three areas of study that contribute to thriving communities, including land-centred and anti-colonial education, the creative capacities of educators, and practitioner-research methodologies.

Dr. Hill is an innovative teacher-educator, working with both pre-service and in-service teachers. She is deeply invested in learning that is anticolonial, wholistic and embodied, and has moved much of her teaching from classrooms into forest, to co-create educational experiences with the land.

Cher is settler scholar with Finnish, Swedish, Scottish, and English ancestry. She is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada.