adventures in teaching and learning
I have reached mid-career, and am on sabbatical — a precious gift of time to think big and broad about the nature and scope of my scholarly work. So far, my year has been transformative in many ways. Because, I Continue reading Tales of a Sabbatical: On Becoming a Student of Drawing, Part 1
I’m delighted to be presenting a talk at the Improving University Teaching Conference in London UK. My talk title is Cultivating Researcher Identity and Importance of Positionality among Students in Quantitative Psychology Research Methods. Here are my slides, final edition (updated Continue reading Improving University Teaching Conference 2025
A happy update… We won the SoTL Canada Poster Award for this work! Many thanks to the adjudicators at SoTL Canada, as well as to UBC’s Institute for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL Seed Fund), and the UBC Continue reading STLHE 2024
Earlier this summer I spent time deepening my learning around what decolonizing and Indigenizing mean in higher education broadly, in my local environments of the Faculty of Arts and the Psychology Department, and psychology as a discipline. At our Psychology Continue reading Deepening Meaning of My Land Acknowledgement
As I mentioned in this previous post, I am working through feedback from my students. All quantitative data, as well as links to all previous blog posts (since 2011), are available here. Last round I focused on PSYC 218 Statistics. For this installment, I focus Continue reading Reflecting on a Seminar: My First Fully Online Course