Rita Irwin
A/r/tography; Arts teacher education; Socially-engaged art in education; Teacher education in refugee camps; Mentoring early career teachers; Artists-in-residence programs; Participatory action research; Research creation.
Dr. Irwin facilitated a group of UBC faculty and students in conceptualizing a/r/tography, a form of arts based educational research first published in 2004. Since then countless theses and dissertations, journal articles and exhibitions/performances have been written/created using this form of research in over 20 countries in the world. In addition, her teacher education scholarship has advanced early career mentoring in BC, refugee education in Kenya, and arts education world-wide.
E. Wayne Ross
Critical pedagogy; Curriculum studies; Social studies education; Education reform; Teacher education; Academic labour.
Dr. Ross is interested in the influence of social and institutional contexts on teachers’ practice as well as the role of curriculum and teaching in building a democratic society. His most recent research develops a radical critique of schooling as social control and a collection of strategies that can be used disrupt and resist the conformative, anti-democratic, and oppressive potentialities of schooling, practices he describes as dangerous citizenship.
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.
Michael Koehle
Environmental physiology; Exercise physiology; Sport medicine; Exercise medicine.
Dr. Koehle studies the impact of interaction between the environment (pollution, altitude, submersion, etc.) and exercise on human physiology, and health.
Deirdre Kelly
Feminist studies; Gender studies; Children and youth; Teaching for social justice; Sociology of education; Cultural studies; Media and democracy; Critical policy studies.
Dr. Kelly has developed a body of scholarly work centered on social justice in education that aims to: inform efforts to create equitable schooling; help teachers craft social justice pedagogies; and frame policy reforms for alternative programs, teacher education, teachers’ assessment practices, and gender equity.
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.
Donald McKenzie
Sports medicine; Kinesiology; Exercise and breast cancer.
His research centres on exercise and breast cancer. Dr. McKenzie has a ‘cancer gym’ near the BC Cancer Agency that has been very productive in multi-centre trials looking at the integration of exercise with this disease.
Dónal O’Donoghue
Aesthetics; Art-led research; Art scholarship; Art and design education; Contemporary art and curatorial practice; Curriculum studies; Masculinities and gender studies; Visual and material culture.
His research is located in the fields of contemporary art and curatorial practice; aesthetics; education; and gender studies. In education, Dr. O’Donoghue conducts art-led research that investigates and documents students’ experiences of learning to live in school environments. This research contributes new insights into the pedagogical potentialities of space and place and the production of subjectivities in school, while enhancing and diversifying theoretical and practical applications of artistic research.