Meet the Team

Aisha Haque

Director

Research Interests: international education, intercultural teaching competence, anti-racist and decolonial pedagogies, TA development

Contact about: anti-racist and decolonial pedagogies and course design, teaching international students, mentoring new faculty, teaching awards, educational leadership

Mandy Penney

Associate Director, Teaching Development

Research Interests: accessibility, disability justice, communities of practice and care, critical digital pedagogies, justice-oriented teaching and learning, alternative assessments, graduate TA reflection, growth, and leadership.

Contact about: TA programs, graduate supervision, alternative assessments, accessible teaching, digital literacies, designing multimodal assessments, communities of practice and care.

Dani Dilkes

Educational Developer, Digital Learning

Research Interests: accessibility, critical digital pedagogy, design justice, inclusive teaching practices, emerging practices in higher education, ethics of care, learning communities, open pedagogy, radical imagination, speculative methodologies

Contact about: Universal Design for Learning, inclusive pedagogy, accessibility, alternative assessment, teaching and learning in digital spaces, course design, generative AI in education

Jennifer Foley

Educational Developer (TA Programs)

Research Interests: critical pedagogies, outcomes based education, curricular and co-curricular mapping, AI in Higher Education, scholarship of teaching and learning, information literacy

Contact about: TA training and programs, graduate student teaching dossiers

Ken Meadows

Educational Developer, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning & Faculty Programs

Research Interests: scholarship of educational development, teaching culture, positive faculty and student development

Contact about: research on teaching and learning, assessment, faculty development

Lisa Ouellette

Manager, Operations
Office of the Vice-Provost (Academic Programs)

Contact about: finance, human resources, administrative operations

Nassisse Solomon

Educational Developer (International TA Programs)

Research Interests: Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Education, Community Engaged Learning, Migration and Ethnic Relations, and Canada-Africa Relations.

Contact about: TA training and programs (International), graduate student teaching dossiers, teaching in the humanities.