Teresa Dobson
Digital literacy; Digital humanities; Literary education; Media culture.
Dr. Dobson’s program of research entails the application of Digital Humanities methods in the field of Literacy Education with a view to the advancement of scholarship concerning knowledge mobilization generally, and, more particularly, to the complexification of theoretical paradigms that are based in print models of meaning and communication.
Mary Bryson
Cultural studies; Media studies; Communications; Community health informatics; Transgender and
gender studies; Critical sexuality studies; Knowledge mobilization; Cancer education.
The trajectory of the interdisciplinary program of my CIHR-funded research (http://www.lgbtcancer.ca) advances knowledge concerning how sexual and/or gender marginalization impact the role of networked social media and information literacies and shape access to breast and gynecologic cancer health knowledge and its mobilization and the formation of networks of support. The Cancer’s Margins research project charts new directions for sociocultural work in educational, curricular and post-colonial transferminist health media studies and queer bioinformatics.
Wendy Carr
French language education; Teacher education; Teacher professional learning; Second language education; International Baccalaureate.
Dr. Carr has demonstrated educational leadership by developing innovative, literacy-based approaches to teaching French as a second language: curriculum reform in BC, authorship of FSL resources used in schools across Canada, award-winning teaching at UBC, and roles as president of provincial and national language teacher associations. Her 2006 research on BC French teachers led to innovations at UBC: a new cohort (FLAGS, 2007-13) and French methods course for all elementary teacher candidates.
Monique Bournot-Trites
Second language teaching and learning; French as a second language; French immersion; Second language assessment; Canadian Language Benchmarks; Common European Framework of Reference; Study Abroad; Tandem language learning; Literacy in second language; Online teaching and learning.
Her research focuses on L2 teaching and learning, L2 literacy and language assessment. Dr. Bournot-Trites researched reading development and the quality of French in immersion. She has also studied how French teachers study abroad influences their intercultural and language competence. At UBC, she researched tandem language learning. Recently, she wrote the Theoretical Language Framework for the Canadian Language Benchmarks. Furthermore, she studies online teaching and learning at the graduate level.
Marlene Asselin
Early literacy; Digital literacy; Early childhood and literacy education in Ethiopia; Community libraries and development in East Africa; Transnational research ethics.
Dr. Asselin’s research focuses on information literacy, digital literacy and social media in educational contexts; early literacy development and education with new technologies and media; international literacy program evaluation; and school and community librarian education. Her scholarship has contributed to transnational perspectives on school and community libraries; and ethical issues of global early literacy initiatives.
Theresa Rogers
Literacy education; Adolescent literacies; Sociocultural perspectives on literacy and teaching; Teacher education; English education; Young adult literature, Literature instruction; Qualitative methodology.
Dr. Roger’s research focuses on how youth/adolescents use literacy practices in learning and civic engagement in formal and informal educational contexts. Her work extends the notion of literacy practices to include a range of media, arts, and critical practices. She has been particularly interested in examining the literacies of disenfranchised youth, including street youth, as productive, critical and engaged practices. She also does research on critical perspectives in teaching literature in classrooms.
Ling Shi
Second language writing; Teaching English as a second language; English for academic purposes.
Her research focuses on how cultural, disciplinary and language differences interact in student writing in relation to intertextuality and individual authorship. Dr. Shi’s scholarship has a great impact in the field of Second Language Writing, English for Academic Purposes, and university writing pedagogy.
George Belliveau
Theatre education; Drama; Research-based theatre; Performed research; Arts-based research; A/r/tography
Dr. Belliveau’s research focuses on applying theatre as a research methodology across disciplines. Research-based theatre looks at creative ways to theatricalize data while critically reflecting on ethical and aesthetic considerations. This approach to research gathers different partners to examine embodied ways of generating and disseminating data. As a form of knowledge translation, research-based theatre allows participants and audiences to witness research findings through performance.
Maureen Kendrick
Multimodality; Literacy practices; Community literacy; Family literacy; Multiple literacies; Literacy and international development.
Dr. Kendrick’s research focuses on literacy and multimodality as social practice, family and community literacy, literacy and international development, and digital literacies. She has written widely on literacy and multimodality in diverse contexts, with a particular focus on East Africa. Currently, she is researching the affordances and limitations of multimodal pedagogies (e.g., digital literacy practices) for multilingual learners in Canadian classrooms.
Annette Henry
Race, gender, language, culture in the classroom; Black feminist thought. Alternative and narrative epistemologies.
As an educational researcher interested in race, gender, culture, and language, Dr. Henry has five interrelated areas of inquiry: a) the epistemology and practice of Black; b) life histories of African Canadian women; c) the academic achievement and learning of Black students in Canada, the United States and the Caribbean; d) the applications of ethnographic and alternative methodologies in educational research; e) Black feminist thought applied to educational contexts.