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…
Category: Research
Researching LGBTQ2+ journalists in Canada
I am conducting a research study to learn about the on-the-job experiences of LGBTQ2+ journalists who work in Canada. I’m trying to reach as large and diverse a pool of participants as possible and hope that you will share this invitation with anyone you know who might be interested in…
Books
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Media whining or democratic crisis?
In 2012, I began a small research project that examined how journalists at national newspapers wrote about the challenges they faced in getting information out of Stephen Harper’s Conservative government. By that point, it was clear that Harper and his cabinet had little time for reporters — they granted few…
Edna Staebler
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Edna Staebler and the Lives of Women
For the past year or so, a lot of my research time has been focused on the magazine writing Edna Staebler did early in her career, mostly for Maclean’s and Chatelaine. As I’ve written before, it’s great stuff with a timeless quality to it; the stories are every bit as…
Edna Staebler
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Edna Staebler, literary journalist
I’m pleased to share some research I’ve been working on for the past couple of years about Edna Staebler’s legacy as a pioneering female literary journalist in Canada. Most Canadians who know of Staebler probably think of her as a cookbook writer or philanthropist–and rightly so. That’s how I used…