Author Profiles
Authors (Alphabetically)
Dr. Robin Attas is an educational developer in The Centre with a focus on equity, diversity, and inclusion (often abbreviated EDI) in teaching and learning. She supports faculty, staff and graduate students with campus-wide and custom workshops and individual consultations. Robin also leads workshops within the Graduate Teaching Program (GTP) and Teaching and Learning Certificate (TLC). She frequently collaborates with Indigenous Initiatives Educators within The Centre and with Indigenous and EDI-focused faculty and staff across the university.
Dr. Subrata Bhowmik is a Senior Instructor in the Werklund School of Education at the University of Calgary. His research focuses on social and cultural factors affecting language and literacy learning, specifically second language (L2) writing. Subrata’s work has appeared in Writing & Pedagogy, TESOL Journal, Language and Sociocultural Theory, and most recently BC TEAL Journal.
Dr. Anita Chaudhuri is an Assistant Professor of Teaching in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan campus (UBCO). Her research in the areas of identity construction of language learners and their development in writing and communication has been published in academic journals such as TESOL Quarterly, BC TEAL Journal, and Writing & Pedagogy. She is UBCO’s Faculty Advisor on Academic Integrity, chairs the EDI sub-committee for STLHE’s Contract Cheating and Academic Integrity Committee, and supports the development of an educative approach in this area.
Dr. Sarah Eaton is an Associate Professor at the Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary, Canada. Dr. Eaton is an award-winning educator, researcher, and leader. She leads transdisciplinary research teams focused on academic integrity and ethics in higher education. She is regularly invited by the media to provide expert commentary on academic misconduct. Dr. Eaton also holds a concurrent appointment as an Honorary Associate Professor, Deakin University, Australia.
Dr. Lisa Grekul, an Associate Professor in the Department of English and Cultural Studies on the Okanagan campus of the University of British Columbia, is a literary scholar, novelist, and fourth-generation Ukrainian Canadian. Her academic research and teaching focus on minoritized and diasporic Canadian literatures; her fiction, similarly but more specifically, engages with the fraught realities of living in the Ukrainian diaspora. She is the author of Kalyna’s Song (a novel, 2003) and Leaving Shadows: Literature in English by Canada’s Ukrainians (2005), and the co-editor, with Lindy Ledohowski, of Unbound: Ukrainian Canadians Writing Home (2016).
Dr. Joel Heng Hartse is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University, where he teaches academic literacy and TESOL courses. His research focuses on language difference at the margins of academic writing and publishing, and has appeared in the Journal of Second Language Writing, Asian Englishes, Composition Studies, the Journal of English for Research Publication Purposes, Across the Disciplines, and English Today. His books include TL;DR: A Very Brief Guide to Reading and Writing in University (On Campus Books, UBC Press, 2023) and Perspectives on Teaching English at Colleges and Universities in China (co-authored with Jiang Dong; TESOL Press, 2015). He is the current president (2022-2024) of the Canadian Association for the Study of Discourse and Writing.
Dr. Laurie McNeill is a Professor of Teaching in the Department of English Language and Literatures and Associate Dean, Students in the Faculty of Arts at UBC. Her research focuses on the production and reception of life narratives and testimony in digital and archival spaces, and pedagogical approaches to auto/biography. Recent publications include “Digital Posthuman Auto/biography” (Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature, 2022) and The Routledge Guide to Auto/Biography in Canada (2023), co-authored with Sonja Boon, Julie Rak and Candida Rifkind. She is co-editor of Teaching Lives: Contemporary Pedagogies of Life Narratives (2017), Online Lives 2.0 (2015), a special issue of the journal Biography, and Comic Lives (2022). Since 2015, she has been leading initiatives and research at UBC and institutions across Canada related to rethinking academic integrity policy, procedure, and pedagogy, as chronicled in her chapter “Changing “Hearts” and Minds: Pedagogical and Institutional Practices to Foster Academic Integrity” in Academic Integrity in Canada: An Enduring and Essential Challenge (Eaton & Christensen-Hughes, 2022). In 2022, her contributions were recognized with a Tricia Bertram Gallant Award for Outstanding Service from the International Centre for Academic Integrity. She is currently the co-principal investigator of “We’re Only Human? GenAI in Arts’ Writing Courses,” a UBC-funded multi-course project on teaching and learning.
Naeem Nedaee is an interdisciplinary humanities scholar currently pursuing a PhD degree in Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of British Columbia (UBC). Naeem’s research areas include Posthumanism, New Materialism, Critical Animal Studies, Critical Theory, and Visual Culture Studies. Beyond these areas, he is engaged in research related to Academic Integrity and Linguistic Justice. Naeem’s work has been featured in the Canadian Journal of Film Studies (2019), the Midwest Quarterly (2017), Atlantis (2017), and Bulletin de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège (2017). Currently, he is contributing a chapter titled “Extending Care: Integrity, Ethics, and Social Justice in the Humanities” to an upcoming Open Educational Resource entitled Discipline-based Approaches to Academic Integrity.
Dr. Laura Patterson is a Professor of Teaching specializing in Technical and Professional Communication at the School of Engineering at the University of British Columbia’s Okanagan campus. She has taught technical communication to engineering students since 2002 and has been in her current position since 2007. She is currently the Lead of the Provost’s Academic Integrity Working Group and the Chair of the School of Engineering’s Ethics and Academic Integrity Committee since she initiated it in 2017. Dr. Patterson has worked with UBC’s Community Service Learning program since 2010 to provide a service-learning experience to engineering students in her sections of the first-year engineering communication course, and service learning, empathy, and public engagement is the focus of her pedagogical research.
Dr. Brenda M. Stoesz is the Research Lead – Science of Teaching and Learning in The Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning at the University of Manitoba. Brenda conceptualizes and leads The Centre’s science of teaching and learning research portfolio and maintains an active research program aligned with The Centre’s mandate as it relates to research, program evaluation, and quality assurance. Currently, Brenda is involved in research and evaluation projects in the areas of academic integrity, artificial intelligence, faculty educator training in VR environments, and perceptions and use of online learning environments using various methodologies and technologies.
