Amy Salmon
Dr. Amy Salmon has an extensive career as researcher, front-line worker, and health care administrator, working in a wide variety of areas related to substance use, mental health, fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD), and social determinants of health. She holds her PhD in Educational Studies from UBC, specializing in the Sociology of Education and Disability […]
Simon Blakesley
Simon Blakesley is an educator living in Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada. He completed the Ph.D. (Educational Studies) program at UBC (Vancouver) in 2010. His dissertation, titled “Remote and Unresearched: A Contextualized Study of Non-Indigenous Educational Leaders Working in Yukon Indigenous Communities”, engages in a critical analysis of the lived experiences of non-Indigenous educational leaders working in […]
Maren Elfert
Dr. Maren Elfert came to pursue doctoral studies in EDST at UBC after having worked for more than a decade at the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning in Hamburg, Germany. Her research examines how international organizations contribute to the globalization of ideas, in particular educational ideas and discourses of human rights. Her SSHRC-funded dissertation on […]
Kristina Llewellyn
A historian of education and feminist scholar, Kristina Llewellyn (PhD, Educational Studies 2006), is Associate professor of Social Development Studies at Renison University College (University of Waterloo). Her scholarship is devoted to oral history in the pursuit of social justice. The author of Democracy’s Angels: The Work of Women Teachers (2012) and co-editor of The […]
Melanie Janzen
Current Position: Associate Dean (Undergraduate Programs) Assistant Professor, University of Manitoba My PhD research explored what it means to be and become a teacher in an era of mandated, standardized curriculum. It considered the ways in which teachers experience and understand teacher “becoming”, their relationship with curriculum, and their responsibility to education. Receiving UBC PhD […]
Jongmun Kim
Dr. Jongmun Kim, who graduated in 2014, conducted his doctoral research on elementary students’ changes in ocean literacy during an aquarium summer camp experiences. Owing to four years funding from UBC, he could devote himself to his study that has had a significant impact on Korean marine education. As a board member of Korean Marine […]
Ruth Guo
Ruth Guo, who graduated in 2006, conducted her doctoral research on Information and communication technology (ICT) literacy in teacher education: A case study of the University of British Columbia. Her research was funded in part by a University Graduate Fellowship from UBC. She joined the Computer Information Systems Department at Buffalo State in 2007 where […]
Ashwani Kumar
Current Position:Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, Mount Saint Vincent University At UBC, the focus of my research was to understand the relationship among meditative inquiry, human consciousness, and education. In my dissertation, I theorized the concept of curriculum as meditative inquiry, which urges educators to re-imagine the whole phenomena of education in a new light […]
Mia Perry
Mia Perry completed her dissertation, Theatre as a Place of Learning: The Forces and Effects of Devised Theatre Processes in Education, in 2010. She looked at contemporary cultural practices, specifically professional devised theatre, in relation to the pedagogical affordances therein for inquiry, critique, and representation in secondary arts education. Funding at UBC (SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship, […]
Chelsey Hauge
Chelsey received her Ph.D. in LLED from UBC in 2015. Chelsey received a Vanier Fellowship for her research on the digital storytelling practices of rural Nicaraguan youth enrolled in a civic engagement program. The Vanier enabled her to spend long periods of time in Latin America and immerse herself in research on youth media production. […]