Education

Katherine Sirluck, PhD

Instructor

Shakespeare, Renaissance drama, feminist theory, cultural anthropology, language, gender politics, contemporary drama, poetry

Dr. Stephen R.J. Sheppard, PhD

Dr. Stephen R.J. Sheppard, PhD

Professor Emeritus and former Director of Bachelor of Urban Forestry Program

Future climate change scenarios, community engagement, landscape architecture, urban forestry, greenway planning, sustainable communities, social aspects of forestry, visual quality / visual impacts of clear-cutting, climate change videogames, computer mapping and animation, local climate change impacts, adaptation and mitigation, GIS, visualization, behaviour change, social mobilization on climate change, citizen science, renewable energy, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases,

Carlos Ventura

Carlos Ventura

Professor

Director, Earthquake Engineering Research Facility (EERF)

Structural engineering, earthquake engineering, vibrations of structures, buildings, bridges, dams, structural health monitoring, seismic risk

Prof. Handel Kashope Wright, PhD

Prof. Handel Kashope Wright, PhD

Senior Advisor to the President on Anti-Racism and Inclusive Excellence

Director, Centre for Culture, Identity and Education

Professor

Black Studies, African Studies, Cultural Studies, Youth; Identity issues; multiculturalism (Canadian and international); decolonialism; Sierra Leone; Cultural Studies of Education; Africana Cultural Studies; Anti-racism; social justice issues in education and society,

Monique Bournot-Trites, BA, MA, PhD

Associate Professor

Second language acquisition, French as a second language, French immersion, Core French, French schools, learning content in second language, language assessment, second language literacy (reading especially, intecultural competence, teacher education in second language

Margot Leigh Butler

Academic Director

Vancouver Downtown Eastside, community education, free community education with Downtown Eastside residents who experience marginalization, poverty, addictions and education, community-university relationships, representation, cultural studies, critical and creative pedagogy, interdisciplinarity, site-specific art, collectives, implicatedness, activism

Dr. Julian Dierkes, PhD

Dr. Julian Dierkes, PhD

Associate Professor

Keidanren Chair in Japanese Research

Japanese education, cram schools, history education, history textbooks, reconciliation, legal education, Canada-Japan relations, contemporary Mongolia,

Stephen Malloy, MFA

Professor Emeritus

Theatre, directing, acting, playwriting, contemporary classics, Sam Shepard, David Mamet, Samuel Beckett, Canadian theatre

Steven Wolfman, PhD

Steven Wolfman, PhD

Senior Instructor

Computer science education, active learning, kinesthetic learning activities, pen-based computing

Prof. Maura MacPhee, RN, PhD

Prof. Maura MacPhee, RN, PhD

Professor

Healthcare delivery, quality and safety, program evaluation, nurses’ work environments,

Jason Barton, MD

Professor

Canada Research Chair in Human Vision and Eye Movement

Face perception, object recognition, eye movements, higher visual function

Blye Frank, PhD

Blye Frank, PhD

Dean and Professor

Boys’ and men’s sociology of health, masculinities and schooling, gender and schooling, sexualities and schooling, professional development in education

Dr. Rita Irwin, EdD

Dr. Rita Irwin, EdD

Professor

Arts education, arts teacher education, teacher education, arts based research, research creation, artists-in-residence, community engagement, diversity, international education, refugee education

Rosie J. Redfield, PhD

Rosie J. Redfield, PhD

Professor

Genetic exchange, genetics in the news, MOOCs, online education

Peter Moroney

Director, Professional Programs & Applied Technology

Continuing education, continuing education leadership, information technology, internet, innovation, knowledge economy, elearning

Jo-Anne Dillabough

Associate Professor

Sociology of education, youth culture

Victoria Purcell-Gates, PhD

Professor

Literacy, education

Judith Plessis

Judith Plessis

Executive Director Emerita of Continuing Studies

Leadership in university lifelong learning, Second language acquisition for adults, Authorship by women filmmakers (Margarethe von Trotta, Marguerite Duras, Maya Deren)

Peter Gouzouasis, BMus, MMus, PhD (Music)

Professor

Arts-based research, autoethnography, creative analytical practices, creativity in teaching and learning, digital media in teaching and learning, early childhood education, jazz (performance and recorded music), music media, music learning, and pedagogy

J. Scott Goble, PhD

Associate Professor and Chair of Music Education

Music and history, music education, conducting, choral music