al Shaibah, Arig

Honorary Associate Professor

arig.alshaibah@ubc.ca

About

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 RacismFeminist 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

Education

Research Projects

Tri-agency EDI Stipend ($50,000) | 2020 – 2021 | Principal Investigator, McMaster University

  1. Inclusive Excellence in the Academic and Research Ecosystem

McMaster University ($45,000) | 2019 – 2022 | Principal Investigator, McMaster University

  1. Inclusive Excellence in Faculty Hiring: A Faculty of Science Case Study
  2. Inclusive Excellence in Faculty Hiring 2.0: A Faculty of Science Case Study
  3. Inclusive Excellence in the Academic Ecosystem: Faculty Retention and Promotion

Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario ($50,000) | 2015, Principal Investigator, Queen’s University

  1. Q Success Supporting Underrepresented Students in Transition

Private Donor ($1M) | 2014, Collaborator, Queen’s University

  1. Q Success A First Year Seminar Transition Program
  2. Bounce Back Early Alert Program

Selected Publications

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles

  1. al Shaibah, A. (2023). EDI leadership and change agency in Canadian academe: An analysis of democratic discourses of senior leaders, Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal, 55:1, 99 – 122.
  2. al Shaibah, A. and Poinar, S. (2021). Managing campus expression and equality rights: Contemporary considerations for Canadian universities, Canadian Journal of Human Rights, 10:1, 71 – 121.

Articles and Opinion Pieces

Strategic Reports and Guides

al Shaibah, A. (2019). Towards Inclusive Excellence: McMaster University’s EDI Strategy.


EDST Activity

Students Supervised

Courses taught


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