I’m pleased to share the news that Brett Popplewell is the winner of the 2024 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction. The $10,000 prize recognizes Canadian writers for a first or second book that is written in the genre of creative non-fiction and includes a Canadian locale or significance. As…
Author: Bruce Gillespie
Bruce Gillespie is an award-winning Canadian writer and editor and an associate professor in the Digital Media and Journalism program at Wilfrid Laurier University's Brantford campus. He is the editor of "A Family By Any Other Name: Exploring Queer Relationships" and co-editor of "Somebody's Child: Stories About Adoption" and "Nobody's Father: Life Without Kids."
Building a grassroots SoTL culture
I’m pleased to share some of my latest Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) research, which I wrote with Laurier colleagues Michelle Goodridge and Shirley Hall. It’s a chapter about building a grassroots SoTL culture at post-secondary institution that doesn’t have an established SoTL program in place, based on our…
Hilary Peach wins 2023 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction
Hilary Peach, author of Thick Skin: Field Notes from a Sister in the Brotherhood, is the winner of the 2023 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction. As I’m quoted saying in the news release, “I love a book that surprises me, and in this case, I was very surprised by…
Finalists announced for 2023 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction
Two finalists have been announced for the 2023 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction, bestowed by Wilfrid Laurier University. They are Cody Caetano for Half-Bads in White Regalia: A Memoir and Hilary Peach for Thick Skin: Field Notes from a Sister in the Brotherhood. You can read more about them…
Laurier hiring a Tenured Associate Professor of User Experience Design
The growing User Experience Design program at Wilfrid Laurier University (Brantford, Ontario, Canada) is hiring a Tenured Associate Professor with demonstrated leadership experience, a passion for curriculum design and experiential learning, and strong connections to the field. Applications are due January 15, 2024, for an expected July 1, 2024, started…