Gu, Lily

Pronouns

She/Her/Hers

Job Title

Career and Professional Development Coach

Workplace

LGU Journey Co.

EDST Degree/s and graduation year/s

MEd, 2006

Concentration

Society, Culture and Politics in Education (SCPE)

Residence

Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada

My career path took me from a technology consultant delivering IT products and solutions for an international IT company in Beijing, to a program leader managing educational programs serving diverse learners at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, to an inspiring coach partnering with individuals and groups to explore, discover and design paths towards success, whatever success means to them. As a career and professional development coach, I am committed to offer a trusting and caring space for my clients to explore with openness on matters that are important to them, whether for work, home, or anything in between. Based in Vancouver Canada, I am humbly excited to serve diverse clients around the world. I have a passion for life-long learning and serving others. I hold a master’s degree in computer engineering from Beijing Institute of Technology and a master’s degree in adult education from the University of British Columbia (UBC). During my 15-year experience working at UBC, I continued my learning journey and completed multiple certificate programs, including certificates in Intercultural Studies, Translation and Interpretation for Business (Chinese / English), Organizational Coaching, and certificate in Immigration: Laws, Policies, and Procedures. Outside work, I love to be active and try new things, whether it means skydiving, balancing on my standup paddle board, or experimenting in my garden. As a mother of two, I am thoroughly enjoying the journey to learn and grow with my children.

Email: lily.gu@alumni.ubc.ca

Website: http://lgujourney.com

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/lily-gu

Anderson, Starla

Pronouns

She/Her/Hers

Job Title

Retired as English Department Head, Churchill Secondary, Vancouver School Board

Workplace

Self-employed

EDST Degree/s and graduation year/s

MEd, 1977; EdD, 1987

Concentration

Society, Culture and Politics in Education (SCPE)

Residence

Saanich, British Columbia, Canada

My year of study with Jane Gaskell enhanced my understanding of the role of public education in capitalist society. After five years of teaching in public schools, and observing discrepancies in outcomes for students from different social and cultural backgrounds, I wanted to gain more insight as to how I might bring innovations to classrooms to confront these discrepancies. As a teacher in a Vancouver alternate program, Total Education, I interviewed grade 12 students who told me that this more personalized learning experience motivated them to complete secondary school whereas mainstream schools had not. These students were from diverse backgrounds—socially and culturally—and had individual motivations; “one size fits all” learning experiences did not keep them motivated. Continued interest in alternate education took me as a teacher-researcher to Outreach, a program for Indigenous students. My work with these students became the focus of doctoral studies with Bernie Mohan in UBC’s Dept. of Language and Literacy Education. Many doors opened so that I was able to contribute to designing better learning environments and more relevant curriculum for Indigenous students in B.C. schools. During the last decade of my teaching and consulting work, as Head of Churchill’s English Department, teachers were easily persuaded of the efficacy of developing English courses for grades 8 – 10 students who would benefit from adapted methods of instruction. This school is known for its students’ academic achievements but a small number of students were not being served well; twenty-five years later, these courses remain intact.

Email: starla4409@gmail.com

Nabavi, Maryam

Pronouns

She/Her/Hers

Job Title

Director, Academic Leadership Development Program

Workplace

UBC

EDST Degree/s and graduation year/s

PhD, 2012

Concentration

Society, Culture and Politics in Education (SCPE)

Residence

British Columbia, Canada

Maryam lives within the borders of Coast Salish lands and in the borderlands of race and migration. After completing her PhD in Educational Studies in 2012, which was a Cultural Studies look at identities and identifications of young immigrants and its impacts on notions of citizenship, she worked as a Post-doctoral Teaching and Learning Fellow at UBC and later at a national social policy research organization to advance policies for Canadians to whom social structures offer least. Her work centrally focuses on strategic, leadership-driven engagement in service of advancing equity, inclusion and anti-racism. Presently, as Director of the Academic Leadership Development program at UBC, Maryam guides the overall development of a cohort-based program that enhances and contributes to leadership for new academic leaders. Maryam is trained and holds certificates a variety of approaches for advancing organizational change processes, including a Certificate of Leadership Coaching, conflict engagement, and a variety of facilitation tools and frameworks. Outside of her professional life, she is actively engaged in the project of motherhood and enjoys climbing mountains in the summers and coming down them in the winters!

Email: maryam.nabavi@gmail.com

Orchard, Carole

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She/Her/Hers

Job Title

Previously full professor and now professor emerita and adjunct research professor in nursing

EDST Degree/s and graduation year/s

EdD, 1998; MEd, 1991

Concentration

Educational Studies – General

Residence

London, Ontario, Canada

Dr. Orchard is currently Professor Emerita and Adjunct Research Professor in the Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing and the former Coordinator of Interprofessional Health Education & Research at the University of Western Ontario. Her research focuses on interprofessional client-centred collaborative practice. Dr. Orchard and her colleagues have developed several measurement instruments: Interprofessional Socialization & Valuing Scale (ISVS) and the Assessment of Interprofessional Team Collaboration Scale-II (AITCS-II for practitioners), AITCS-II for students, Interprofessional Collaborative Leadership Scale (AICLS), and Patients with Diabetes Ownership of their Self-Care Scale (PD-SCOS). The AITCS-II (students) is specifically for assessing collaboration in IP students during group learning. Dr. Orchard co-chaired the Canadian Interprofessional Health Collaborative’s IP Competency Working Group who developed the CIHC National IP Competency Framework and an international working group is now working on audit tools to measure the process of collaboration in teams. Dr. Orchard has also created an online program TEAMc (Toolkit for Enhancing and Maintaining Collaboration) to assist in the development of Interprofessional Collaborative Teams. This program is licensable for agency use through WorldDiscoveries at Western University. Dr. Orchard also co-chairs the CIHC Interprofessional Competency Working Group. In 2015 she published a book with colleagues on Interprofessional Client-Centered Collaborative Practice: What does it look like? How can it be achieved? Dr. Orchard has also published articles on the role of nurses within collaborative teams. Her research currently focuses on the role of patients both in their own self-care and in collaborative teams. Currently she and colleagues are developing a Training Program in Interprofessional Team Conflict Resolution. Her work is frequently cited in the field of IPC.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/corchardcollaborator

Website: http://www.collaborativeprac.ca

Congratulations Sameena Karim Jamal!

Congratulations to Sameena Karim Jamal on receiving the Patricia Dyer Memorial Award!

Sameena is known far beyond Vancouver for her extensive community-building work. She draws upon her academic research and extensive experience as an educator from the primary to university levels. Sameena is committed to equity and diversity in all she does. She bring s what she learns through her research to her work with the Ismaili community and what she learns from the Ismaili community to her understandings of pluralism and equity.

Currently, she is developing media literacy modules and anti-oppression resources to be used by K-12 educators and their students for the Access to Media Education Society (AMES). Sameena is also known as a creative and committed teacher in teacher education.

Sameena exemplifies community building within diverse educational settings that is informed by her research.

Dale McCartney – 2021 CAFE Dissertation Award

Congratulations to recent PhD Grad, Dale McCartney, who has received the 2021 CAFE Dissertation Award for “From ‘friendly relations’ to differential fees: A history of international student policy in Canada since World War II.” Well done, Dale!

Elfert, Maren

Pronouns

She/Her/Hers

Job Title

Lecturer (Assistant Professor)

Workplace

King’s College London

EDST Degree/s and graduation year/s

PhD, 2016

Concentration

Educational Studies – General

Residence

London, UK

I am a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the School of Education, Communication & Society at King’s College London. After achieving my PhD at UBC, I held a two-year postdoctoral position at the Centre for Global Citizenship Education and Research at the University of Alberta. I was a SSHRC postdoctoral fellow and a 2018 National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation postdoctoral fellow. When I started my PhD at UBC, I had already worked for over a decade at the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning in Hamburg. My doctoral research very much built on my professional experience as I wrote my dissertation on the history of the concept of lifelong learning in UNESCO. My research focuses on global governance of education and the influence of international organizations on educational ideas and policies.

Windsor-Liscombe, Suzanne

Pronouns

She/Her/Hers

Job Title

Adjunct Professor

Workplace

Acadia University, Nova Scotia

EDST Degree/s and graduation year/s

EdD, 2014

Concentration

Educational Studies – General

Residence

Vancouver, Canada

Suzanne Windsor-Liscombe is a retired educator whose career spans K through higher education. Suzanne taught mainly in Burnaby BC, but also in England UK. She has held temporary assignments at UBC as a Faculty Advisor and as a Program Coordinator in the Teacher Education Office. Her areas of expertise are music (ARCT, B. Music), ELL (Dip. ED., M. Ed.) and visual and performing arts integration (Ed.D). Suzanne is currently an adjunct professor at Acadia University in Nova Scotia, where she spends part of her year. Her research focus is the visual and performing arts with a particular interest in arts-integrated pedagogy. Suzanne is an assistant editor for the Journal of the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies, and has authored three children’s books. Having suffered a profound hearing loss and no longer able to hear music, Suzanne now composes children’s operas and musicals – framed around historical events and current social issues – that serve as the core around which the be upper intermediate curriculum is integrated. Suzanne can be contacted at suzgwl@gmail.com

Email: suzgwl@gmail.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carriephunter

Website: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10888533/

New Book – Global University Rankings and the Politics of Knowledge

The book is freely downloadable at: https://open.library.ubc.ca/cIRcle/collections/facultyresearchandpublications/52383/items/1.0398205

Hunter, Carrie

Pronouns

She/Her/Hers

Job Title

Curriculum Consultant

Workplace

UBC, Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology

EDST Degree/s and graduation year/s

PhD, 2013

Concentration

Educational Studies – General

Residence

Vancouver, Canada

Reinventing myself, over and over: After 13 years as a high school chemistry teacher, I burned out. What does one do with a B.Sc. and a B.Ed. if not teach? I started working as a medical trainer in the pharmaceutical industry. I fell in love with adult learning, but was repulsed by the pharmaceutical industry. What now? On to an M.Ed. in adult and workplace learning at Queen’s. I couldn’t get enough! I had to do my PhD. I quit my job, moved to BC with my teen sons and re-started life as a (broke!) student. BEST DECISION OF MY LIFE! It’s challenging leaving school at 50! New to this field, you are under-experienced, but 25+ years of experience also means you are over qualified for entry level jobs! Luckily, my connections at UBC led to work as a Research Manager for UBC’s Centre for Health Education Scholarship. Then, I was the Senior Educational Programs Manager for the School of Population and Public Health. Now I am a curriculum consultant with the Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology. It’s an amazing career! I work with programs across the university renewing existing degree programs and developing new ones. I work with creative, intelligent people, help make education better for students, and I learn so much about so many different areas of study! ….and I’m an actor because it’s fun!

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carriephunter

Website: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10888533/