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. […]
Onowa McIvor
Dr. Onowa McIvor is nehiyaw from Norway House and Cross Lake Cree Nations in Northern Manitoba and has been a visitor on Coast and Straits Salish territories for nearly 20 years. Onowa completed her Ph.D at the University of British Columbia in the Department of Language and Literacy Education focused on adult Indigenous language learning. […]
Stephanie Jull
Dr. Stephanie Jull completed her PhD at UBC in 2012. Her dissertation research focussed on teaching community swimming instructors to support children with autism to learn to swim. As a result of her research, adapted lessons continue at the pool where the research occurred and ongoing training has taken place to ensure that new instructors […]
Rose Vukovic
Current Position: Associate Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies, Educational Psychology, University of Minnesota My dissertation research focused on the development of mathematical learning disabilities in children from first through fourth grade. My UBC Graduate Fellowship freed me to focus on building a solid research foundation in my master’s program, which set me up to receive […]
Tracy Vaillancourt
Dr. Tracy Vaillancourt is a Canada Research Chair in Children’s Mental Health and Violence Prevention at uOttawa where she is cross-appointed as a full professor in Counselling Psychology and in the School of Psychology. She is an elected member of The College of the Royal Society of Canada and the recipient of the 2016 uOttawa […]