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

Melanie-Anne Atkins

Acting Associate Director, Graduate Education

Research Interests: engaging students with traditionally marginalized identities in the academy, mental health literacy, holistic graduate student development, peer mentorship and education, anti-oppressive practices in education; co-designing experiential learning and assessment opportunities with students

Contact about: graduate supervision, peer mentorship, students as partners in teaching and learning, mentally healthy classrooms, supporting students living with mental illness

Beth Hundey

eLearning and Curriculum Specialist

Research Interests: science communication training, curriculum mapping, blended curriculum design, teaching in natural sciences and geography

Contact about: 
curriculum mapping, online teaching, collaborative learning

Joe Lipsett

eLearning and Curriculum Specialist

Research Interests: blended curriculum design, student feedback

Contact about: 
synchronous online teaching, course design, active learning activities

Ken Meadows

Educational Researcher

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

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

Vacant

Program Coordinator

Contact about: finance, human resources, administrative operations, faculty programs

Karen Simmavong

Program Coordinator

Contact about: general inquiries, registrations and deposits, certificates, TA programs