Robert Kull is an educator, thesis / MRP supervisor, and researcher. He has been an online instructor in the Master of Arts in Environmental Education and Communication (MAEEC) program for eighteen years and has been a presenter for Royal Roads' Centre for Teaching and Educational Technologies. He won the Royal Roads Kelly Teaching Award in 2013. Kull has been interviewed numerous times on international television and radio programs, most recently, in 2025, by BBC Radio Outlook, W Radio Columbia (in Spanish), and the Wellness Curated podcast. His community involvement includes guest lecturing, storytelling, environmental and political activism, and voting. He moved to Canada from the U.S. in 1967 as a Vietnam War draft-resister.
Websites: bobkull.org and bobkullphotography.weebly.com
Experience
Kull has worked as a travel guide, construction worker, logger, truck driver, bartender, dishwasher, firefighter, photographer and teacher. He taught organic vegetable gardening, carried out first aid, and helped rebuild houses after a hurricane the mountains of the Dominican Republic from 1998 to ‘01. He taught scuba diving in the Caribbean from 1982 to '86 and is an Instructor Emeritus in the PADI SCUBA diving association. He earned a PhD for his first-person exploration of deep wilderness solitude while living alone for a year on a remote island on the Pacific coast of southern Chile. He still spends a month each year camping alone in the wilderness in British Columbia.
Education
2005
PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies
University of British Columbia
1993
Bachelor of Science in Psychology and Biology, with a minor in environmental studies
McGill University
1970
Photography Program Graduate Certificate
Northern Alberta Institute of Technology
1966
Flunked out
University of California at Berkeley
Awards
2021
Lakehead University Integrated Arts Lair Gallery Exhibition
Featured Artist
2013
Kelly Outstanding Teaching Award
From Royal Roads University
Publications
Kull, R. 2015. Solitude: Seeking Wisdom in Extremes – A Year Alone in the Patagonia Wilderness. Audio book. Narrated and edited by Robert Kull. Burnaby, BC: Post Hypnotic Press.
Kull, R. 2008. Solitude: Seeking Wisdom in Extremes – A Year Alone in the Patagonia Wilderness. Novato, CA: New World Library. (Winner, Nautilus Gold Book Award) (Finalist, Foreword Magazine Book of the Year Award)
Kull, R. 2016. Feeling my Way from the University into the Wilderness and Back Again. Journal of the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies, vol. 14, no. 2.
Kull, R. 2013. Harmonic Abandon: The Dance / This it is my Home. Mary: A Journal of New Writing. Spring/Summer, 2013.
Kull, B. 2004. My Year Alone in the Wilderness. Canadian Geographic Magazine, vol. 124, no. 3, p. 110-124. (Honorable Mention, 28th Annual National Magazine Awards)
Kull, F.B. 2001. A Scuba Class: Holistic Teaching/Learning through Lived Experience. In B. Hocking, J. Haskell, W. Linds, eds., Unfolding Bodymind: Exploring Possibility through Education. Brandon, VT: Foundations for Educational Renewal. (Invited)