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Michelle Stack

Associate Professor
Department of Educational Studies (EDST)

Dr. Stack’s research focuses on educational policy, media education, media and university rankings, and how journalists and academics interact. She is committed to communicating research through peer review and engagement with media and stand up comedy. Her works aims to expand educational policy alternatives and media coverage of education to include issues of social justice and equity. Prior to coming to UBC in 2003 she worked for the BC Children’s Commission.

Contributions:

‘The Times Higher Education ranking product: visualising excellence through media’. Globalisation, Societies and Education. 11.4 (November 2013): 560 – 582.
Michelle. ‘Spin as symbolic capital: The fields of journalism and education policy- making: A Bourdieuan reading’. International Journal of Leadership in Education. 13.2 (2010): 107 – 119.
Not whether to cover suicide, but how. The Globe and Mail. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/not-whether-to-cover-suicide-but-how/article6218954/
Kelly, Deirdre and Michelle Stack. ‘Bridging journalistic-academic divides to promote democratic dialogue and debate’. Knowledge Mobilization and Educational Research: Politics, Languages and Responsibilities. Routledge Books, 2011.
Stack, Michelle and Andre Mazawi. ‘New administrative frontiers” as “technologies of governance:The discursive construction of educational leadership in British Columbia’. Management in Education. 23.4 (2009): 71 – 77.

Keywords:

Educational policy; Educational leadership; Media education; University rankings.
michelle.stack@ubc.ca 
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