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Metcalfe, Amy Scott

Professor

604–822–5331

amy.metcalfe@ubc.ca

Website:
http://blogs.ubc.ca/amyscottmetcalfe/
http://www.amyscottmetcalfe.com/

About

Research Interests

Higher Education, International Comparative Higher Education, Research methodologies

Research Supervision Interests

See graduate student supervision profile: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/researcher/13924-metcalfe

Individual research Interests

Visual Research Methods
 

Bio

Dr. Amy Scott Metcalfe (PhD, University of Arizona) is a Professor in the Department of Educational Studies at the University of British Columbia. Her research focuses on higher education in Canada and the North American region, including (post)critical approaches to internationalization, academic labour and mobility, and critical policy studies in education. Dr. Metcalfe has a particular interest in visual research methods in education, with an emphasis on photographic methodologies, art historical approaches, and visual analysis.

 
 

Research and Education

Awards

2018 UBC Killam Faculty Research Fellowship
2018 Research and Scholarship Award, Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education
2018 Award for Significant Research in International Higher Education, Council for International Higher Education (CIHE) of the Association for the Study of Higher Education’s (ASHE)

Research Projects

Selected Publications

Google Scholar profile

ORCiD Profile

Selected Journal Articles

Metcalfe, A. S. (2021). Visualizing the COVID-19 pandemic response in Canadian higher education: an extended photo essay, Studies in Higher Education, 46(1), 5-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2020.1843151

Metcalfe, A. S., & Blanco, G. L. (2021). “Love is calling”: Academic friendship and international research collaboration amid a global pandemic. Emotion, Space and Society, 38. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2021.100763

Oleksiyenko, A. V., Blanco, G., Hayhoe, R., Jackson, L., Lee, J. Metcalfe, A. S., Sivasubramaniam, M., & Zha, Q. (2020). Comparative and international higher education in a new key? Thoughts on the post-pandemic prospects of scholarship. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/03057925.2020.1838121

Blanco, G. L., & Metcalfe, A. S. (2020). Visualizing quality: University online identities as organizational performativity in higher education. Review of Higher Education, 43(3), 781-809. http://doi.org/10.1353/rhe.2020.0007

Stephenson, G. K., Jones, G. A., Bégin-Caouette, O., & Metcalfe, A. S. (2020). Teaching, Research and the Canadian Professoriate: Findings from the 2018 APIKS survey. Higher Education Forum, No. 17, pp. 25-41. https://ci.nii.ac.jp/naid/120006822675/

Stephenson, G. K., Jones, G. A., Fick, E., Bégin-Caouette, O., Taiyeb, A., & Metcalfe, A. S. (2020). What’s the protocol? Canadian university research ethics boards and variations in implementing Tri-council policy. Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 50(1), 68-81. https://doi.org/10.47678/cjhe.v50i1.188743

Metcalfe, A. S. (2019). Witnessing indigenous dispossession and academic arboricide: Visual auto-ethnography as anti-colonial didactic. Visual Arts Research, 45(2), 80-90. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/visuartsrese.45.2.0080

Metcalfe, A. S. (2019). “This is football”: Visualizing academic capitalism at the athletic stadium—A photo essay. Visual Methodologies, 7(1), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.7331/vm.v7i1.113

Kang, J., & Metcalfe, A. S. (2019). Living and learning between Canada and Korea: The academic and cultural experiences of undergraduate international exchange students. Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education, 11(Fall), 28-36. https://www.ojed.org/index.php/jcihe/article/view/1074

Garvey, J. C., Hart, J., Metcalfe, A. S., & Fellabaum-Toston, J. (2019). Methodological troubles with sex and gender in higher education survey research. Review of Higher Education, 43(1), 1-24. http://doi.org/10.1353/rhe.2019.0088

Metcalfe, A. S. (2019). Thinking in place: Picturing the Knowledge University as a politics of refusal. Research in Education, 104(1), 43-55.
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0034523718806932

McCartney, D. M. & Metcalfe, A. S. (2018). Corporatization of higher education through internationalization: The emergence of pathway colleges in Canada. Tertiary Education and Management, 24(3), 206-220. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13583883.2018.1439997

Lee, Y. I., & Metcalfe, A. S. (2017). Academic advisors and their diverse advisees: Towards more ethical global universities. Journal of International Students, 7(4), 944-962. https://zenodo.org/record/1029675#.Wiv56WUp_dl

Lee, J., Metcalfe, A. S., & Suspitsyna, T. (2017). Introduction: Higher education in the global society. Review of Higher Education, 41(1), 1-2. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/668563 [Co-edited special issue]

Blanco Ramírez, G., & Metcalfe, A. S. (2017). #Hashtivism as public discourse: Exploring online student activism in response to state violence and forced disappearances in Mexico. Research in Education, 97(1), 56-75. DOI: 10.1177/0034523717714067

Metcalfe, A. S. (2017). Nomadic political ontology and transnational academic mobility. Critical Studies in Education, 58(2), 131-149. DOI: 10.1080/17508487.2016.1264987

Garvey, J. C., Hart, J., Hoffman, G. D., Iverson, S. V., Metcalfe, A. S., Mitchell, T. D., Pryor, J. T., & Seher, C. (2017). Performing critical work: The challenges of emancipatory scholarship in the academic marketplace. Critical Questions in Education, 8(2), 138-162. https://academyedstudies.files.wordpress.com/2017/03/garveyetalfinal.pdf


EDST Activity

Students Supervised

See graduate student supervision profile: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/researcher/13924-metcalfe

Courses taught

Courses taught at UBC (2005-present):

EDST 401: Education, School, and Social Institutions
EDST 493: Introduction to Higher Education
EDST 511: Organization and Administration of Higher Education
EDST 513: Current Issues in Higher Education
EDST 521: Foundations of Higher Education
EDST 527: Higher Education Policy: International and Comparative Perspectives
EDST 536: Higher Education Systems in Canada
EDST 561: Practicum in Higher Education
EDST 577: Social Context of Educational Policy
EDST 580: Directed Reading in Higher Education
EDST 602A: PhD Doctoral Seminar
ADHE 535: Comparative and International Adult and Higher Education
ADHE 565: Perspectives in Adult and Higher Education Policy
CCFI 508/EDST 508: Visual Research Methods in Education
EADM 582: The Study of Organizations in the Educational Context
EDUC 504: Qualitative Data Analysis


Additional

Photography:

http://www.amyscottmetcalfe.com/



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