Trevor Goodyear

Dr. Trevor Goodyear is a registered nurse and Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing at the University of British Columbia, as well as Faculty with the Human Early Learning Partnership. Trevor’s clinical background includes work in inpatient adult medicine, community health, and child and adolescent mental health. This informs his current program of community-based youth mental health and substance use research, which emphasizes work with equity-owed youth.

Dr. Goodyear’s research takes a social approach to the study of youth substance use, mental health, and related health and healthcare experiences, with the aim of developing more nuanced understandings of these issues and the social and structural contexts in which they are experienced. His research is action-oriented, equity-focused, and interdisciplinary in scope. Trevor leverages participatory research methods, such as photovoice and youth advisory committees, alongside emancipatory health and social science theories.