About
Research Interests
Research Supervision Interests
See graduate student supervision profile: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/researcher/13924-metcalfe
Individual research Interests
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
Research Projects
Selected Publications
Selected Journal Articles
(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