al Shaibah, Arig

I am not currently accepting graduate students for supervision.

Honorary Associate Professor | Associate Vice-President, Equity & Inclusion, https://equity.ubc.ca/our-team/arig-al-shaibah/

arig.alshaibah@ubc.ca

About

Public Reflections and Remarks

Research Interests

  • Social (In)Equality
    • ‘Race’, Racialization, and Racism
    • Critical Human Rights Education
  • Intergroup Relations and Dynamics
    • Critical Intergroup Competencies and Anti-Racist Leadership Capacities
    • Pedagogies for Competency Development/Capacity Building
  • Organizational Behaviour (OD) and EDI Change Management
    • Critical Policy and Discourse Analysis
    • Educational Administration for Social Justice

Research Supervision Interests

Supervision of topics within the following programs:

  1. Educational Administration and Leadership (EDAL)
  2. Higher Education (HIED)
  3. Society, Culture and Politics in Education (SCPE)

Individual research Interests

Bio

Dr. Arig al Shaibah is UBC’s Associate-Vice President, Equity & Inclusion (AVPEI). As a member of the President’s and Provosts’ leadership teams, the AVPEI has a broad mandate to champion inclusive excellence and lead pan-institutional efforts to action UBC’s commitments to equity, inclusion, and antiracism priorities, as well as to promote and support university-wide capacity building for sustained systems change across both Vancouver and Okanagan campuses. Dr. al Shaibah has amassed over two decades of experience working in higher education, with over 15 years as a senior administrator in three Canadian research-intensive universities. Most recently, she served as McMaster University’s inaugural Associate Vice-President Equity & Inclusion, as Dalhousie University’s Vice-Provost Student Affairs and Interim Executive Director for Human Rights & Equity Services, and as Queen’s University’s Assistant Dean Student Life and Learning, as well as Assistant Dean Residence Life, Diversity, and Community Development. Prior to her work in higher education, Dr. al Shaibah spent nearly a decade working in number of community-based not-for-profit organizations serving a diversity of marginalized communities. Holding a PhD in Education (Cultural and Policy Studies) and a Master’s degree in Public Administration, Dr. al Shaibah describes herself as a scholar-practitioner. She has taught courses on ‘Race’ and Racism, Feminist Pedagogy, and Diversity & Human Rights Inquiry, and she has been actively engaged in EDI-related research and scholarly activities, examining questions of how to effectively build individual and institutional capacity for equitable, inclusive and anti-racist leadership and organizational change in higher education. In 2021, Dr. al Shaibah’s EDI leadership was recognized with the 2021 Angela Hildyard Award in Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion granted by the Senior Women Academic Administrators of Canada.

Research and Education

Selected Publications

Refereed Publications

Journals

  • al Shaibah, A. (2024). Diversifying the professoriate in Canadian academe: A case study of search processes and outcomes in a Faculty of Science. Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy. In press (21 pages)
  • al Shaibah, A. (2023). EDI leadership and change agency: analysis of democratic discourses of senior leaders. Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal, 55(1), 101 – 124.
  • al Shaibah, A. & Poinar, S. (2021). Managing campus expression and equality rights: Contemporary considerations for Canadian universities, Canadian Journal of Human Rights, 10(1), 73 – 122.

Book Chapters

  • al Shaibah, A. (2024). Advancing EDI goals in and through higher education: Implications for policy reform in Canadian academe. In H. Schuetze, M. Osborne, R. Zhang & A. Yirga Adamu (Eds.), International Higher Education Reform Conference Proceedings, (29 pages). Manchester United Press. In press

Works Submitted

  • al Shaibah, A. (2024). Navigating Intergroup Distrust as an Equity Scholar-Practitioner and Senior Leader. For Special Issue of Studies in Social Justice on international conference theme, From Targeting in Academia to Promoting Trust and Understanding. (Dispatch)
  • al Shaibah, A. (2024). Leveraging the Typology of Intergroup Competencies: A promising educational intervention for inclusive leadership in academe. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education. Submitted February 19, 2024 (Practice Brief)

Works in Progress for Refereed Publication

  • al Shaibah, A. (2025). Higher Education, Transformative Leadership and EDI: Title of Chapter TBD. In Shirley Steinberg and Awad Ibrahim (Eds.), SAGE Handbook of Critical Leadership in Education.
  • al Shaibah, A. (2024). Gender and racial equity in tenure & promotion: A Canadian Case Study of the Perceptions and Experiences of Faculty.
  • Series on the use of EDI statements in faculty hiring
    • Data analysis in progress; articles will be submitted in May and June 2024
    • Three part series tentatively entitled: “Discursive Analysis of EDI Statements: Insights on Faculty Perspectives, Proficiencies, and Positionalities”

Articles and Opinion Pieces

Strategic Reports and Guides

Research Projects

Active Projects

“Gender and racial equity in tenure & promotion: A Canadian Case Study of the Perceptions and Experiences of Faculty.”

“Discursive Analysis of EDI Statements: Insights on Faculty Perspectives, Proficiencies, and Positionalities”

Graduate Student Research Assistants Supervised

Diversifying the professoriate in Canadian academe: A case study of search processes and outcomes in a Faculty of Science. UBC, 2023

  • Oladipupo Ogenfeibo, PhD Sociology candidate

Discursive Analysis of EDI Statements: Insights on Faculty Perspectives, Proficiencies, and Positionalities. UBC, 2023/2024.

  • Lily Ivanova, PhD Sociology candidate

Education

EDST Activity

Students Supervised

Courses taught

Summer 2024

EDST 565_Summer 2024_Equity in HE Syllabus

Winter 2025

EDST 521 (details forthcoming)

Additional

Courses previously taught at other universities:

  1. ARTSSCI 4C13–Diversity & Human Rights (2020/21, 2021/22), Arts & Science Program, McMaster University
  2. IDIS 302–Race & Racism (2014/15, 2015/16), Interdisciplinary Studies, Queen’s University
  3. GNDS 315–Feminist Pedagogies (2014/15), Gender Studies, Queen’s University

Students previously supervised as other universities:

Supervision of Undergraduate Student Thesis Projects

ARTSSCI 4C06–Individual Thesis, Arts & Science, McMaster University

  1. Rabeeyah Ahmed; Research Project: Citizenship Education (2020/2021)
  2. Faris Maklei; Research Project: Racialized Queer Resiliency (2020/2021)
  3. Sophie Poinar; Research Project: Free Speech vs. Hate Speech (2019/2020)

 

Supervision of Graduate Student Research Assistants

Inclusive Excellence in the Academic Ecosystem: Faculty Retention and Promotion, McMaster, 2021/22

  1. Sumangala Sasudevan, PhD Sociology candidate
  2. Zoe Lea, PhD Sociology candidate

Inclusive Excellence in Faculty Hiring 2.0: A Faculty of Science Case Study, McMaster, 2021/22

  1. Sumangala Sasudevan, PhD candidate
  2. Zoe Lea, PhD Sociology candidate

Inclusive Excellence in the Research Ecosystem: A Guide for Researchers, McMaster, 2021/22

  1. Rachel Barnett, PhD Political Science candidate

Inclusive Excellence in Faculty Hiring: A Faculty of Science Case Study, McMaster, 2019/20, 2020/21

  1. MijiaMurong, MD candidate
  2. Sumangala Sasudevan, PhD candidate
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