Email: jed.anderson@alumni.unbc.ca
Website: https://blogs.ubc.ca/anderson/, http://www.flickr.com/photos/clearbrook4
Jed Anderson is a PhD candidate (ABD) in his third-year of studies in the department of Educational Studies at UBC. He is studying higher education in northern British Columbia, with an interest in applications to other northern regions in Canada and Scandinavia. Jed is interested in how rural and peripheral institutions are created and how higher education relates to regionalism and northern development.
Related research interests include: Higher education, northern studies, circumpolar studies, rural studies, history of education, resource communities, comparative politics, political history, Nordic/Scandinavian studies, Norway, Canada, northern British Columbia, northern Alberta, centre-periphery relations, regional studies, and political geography.
Jed holds a Master of Arts in Political Science from the University of Northern British Columbia and a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in English Literature and Political Science from Simon Fraser University. He previously worked as a journalist and photographer in northern Alberta and rural British Columbia. Jed has also worked in local government, as a community college instructor, and as a labourer in an industrial bakery. Jed has studied and worked in both Norway and the United Kingdom. He works as a teaching assistant at the University of British Columbia.
Supervisors: Jason Ellis and Amy Metcalfe (Educational Studies)