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Ken Meadows

Educational Developer, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning & Faculty Programs
kmeadow2@uwo.ca
519.661.2111 x81301

  

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Dr. Ken N. Meadows is an Educational Developer, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning & Faculty Programs with the Centre for Teaching and Learning, and an Adjunct Researcher Professor with Western’s Faculty of Education. At the CTL, he coordinates scholarship of teaching and learning initiatives, supports librarians and staff in their research and program evaluation endeavours, facilitates educational development programming such the Inclusive Teaching Community of Practice, Instructional Skills Workshop, and Teaching Squares, r, and serves as Managing Editor for The Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. His research focuses on the impact of educational development programs, teaching cultures in post-secondary institutions, and the impacts of GenAI on trust in relationships within the post-secondary context.

Meadows, K. N., Dawson, D. L., Shaw, L., & Kustra, E. (2025). Assessing the teaching culture on campus: The development and validation of the institutional teaching culture perception survey-faculty. International Journal for Academic Development, 30(4), 521- 534. https://doi.org/10.1080/1360144X.2024.2379531

Shillington, K. J., Morrow, D., Meadows, K., Labadie, C. T., Tran, B., Raza, Z., Qi, C., Vranckx, D. J., Bhalla, M., Bluth, K., Cousineau, T. M., Cunningham, D. E., Estrada, M., Massey, J., Ncube, N., & Irwin, J. D. (2024). Leveraging kindness in Canadian post-secondary education: A conceptual paper. College Teaching, 4, 231-238. https://doi.org/10.1080/87567555.2023.2181307

Suh, J. S., Centea, D., Eyles, C., Fleisig, R., Grisé, C. A., McAteer, T., Meadows, K. N., Savage, P., Simmons, N., Wainman, B. C., & Fenton, N. E. (2022). Gathering: Stories of scholarship of teaching and learning at McMaster University. In A. de Bie & C. A. Grisé (Eds.), Where learning deeply matters: Reflections on the past, present, and future of teaching at McMaster University (Chapter 23). Paul R. MacPherson Institute for Leadership, Innovation and Excellence in Teaching, McMaster University.

Haque, A., & Meadows, K. N. (2020). Impact of the lead TA program on the perceived disciplinary instructional competence of graduate teaching assistants. The Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 11(2). https://doi.org/10.5206/cjsotl-rcacea.2020.2.11103

McLean, S., Meadows, K. N., Heffernan, A., & Campbell, N. (2020). Using online decision trees to support students’ self-efficacy in the laboratory. Advances in Physiology Education, 44, 430-435. https://doi.org/10.1152/advan.00016.2019

Dawson, D. L., Meadows, K. N., Kustra, E., Hansen, K. D. (2019). Perceptions of institutional teaching culture by tenured, tenure-track, and sessional faculty. Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 49(3), 115-128. https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/ctlpub/19/

Acai, A., Barrette-Ng, I., Counsell, A., Kim, A., Korpan, C., Meadows, K. N., & Wong, M. (2026, June). Looking back, looking forward: Celebrating 15 years of The Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Presentation at the 2026 Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Annual Conference, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. 

Dilkes, D., & Meadows, K. N. (2026, June). A values-informed approach to navigating the uncertainty and complexity of generative AI in postsecondary education. Pre-conference workshop at the 2026 Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Annual Conference, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

Dilkes, D., & Meadows, K. N. (2026, April). Values as agents of change in response to generative AI. Workshop at the 17th Annual University of Waterloo Teaching and Learning Conference, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

Shillington, K. J., Morrow, D., Meadows, K., Labadie, C. T., Tran, B., Raza, Z., Qi, C., Vranckx, D. J., Bhalla, M., Bluth, K., Cousineau, T. M., Cunningham, D. E., Estrada, M., Massey, J., Ncube, N., & Irwin, J. D. (2023, February). Leveraging kindness in Canadian post-secondary education: A conceptual paper. Paper presented at the Health and Rehabilitation Sciences Graduate Research Conference. Western University, London, Ontario, Canada.

Dawson, D. L., Meadows, K. N., & Kustra, E. (2021, May). Examining the relationships between institutional teaching culture, approaches to teaching, cognitive engagement, and student learning. Poster presented at the annual Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education Conference, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

Brown, K., Ellis, D., & Meadows, K. N. (2019, May). Exploring Waterloo’s teaching culture: What instructors, staff and students don’t know. Paper presented at the annual University of Waterloo Teaching and Learning Conference, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

Meadows, K. N., Taylor, L., Ellis, D., Kustra, E., Wolf, P. (2017, October). Assessing institutional teaching culture: Understanding the enablers and challenges to integrating the scholarship of teaching and learning in academic work. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Dawson, D. L., Meadows, K. N., Kustra, K., & Goff, L. (2017, June). Part and full-time faculty members’ perception of institutional teaching culture. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Kustra, E., Meadows, K. N., Borin, P., & Shaw, L (2017, May). Enhancing institutional teaching culture based on evidence: Indicators, perceptions, and recommendations. Paper presented at the Annual University of Windsor-Oakland University International Teaching and Learning Conference, Windsor, Ontario, Canada.

SSHRC Aid to Scholarly Journals Grant (2026-2029). $152,000. The Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Contributor. Applicant: I. Barrete-Ng.

SSHRC Connection Grant (2020-2022). $24,804. Leveraging kindness to enhance post-secondary students' academic success: A transdisciplinary synthesis. Co-applicant with J. Irwin (Principal Investigator).

SSHRC Insight Development Grant (2016-2018). $74,869. Teaching culture indicators: Enhancing quality teaching. Co-applicant with E. Kustra (Principal Investigator), P. Borin, D. L. Dawson, D. Ellis, L. Taylor, P. Wolf, J. Beer, L. Goff, & J. Grose.