Janet Moore

Office phone: 778 782.7884
Email: jlmoore@sfu.ca

Janet is an Assistant Professor at Simon Fraser University’s Centre for Dialogue where she teaches in the Undergraduate Semester in Dialogue Program (www.sfu.ca/dialogue/undergrad). She has imagined, designed and facilitated courses that focus on community engagement, resilience, lifestyle activism, food systems, group process and urban sustainability at UBC, SFU and the Great Northern Way Campus (a collaboration of UBC, SFU, BCIT and Emily Carr). Janet is currently the University Teaching Fellow for the new SFU Faculty of Environment (www.fenv.sfu.ca) and a research associate with the SFU Centre for Sustainable Community Development (www.sfu.ca/cscd).

She has been involved with a number of innovative sustainability education projects in Vancouver including university engagement on sustainability curriculum at UBC where She completed her doctoral dissertation Recreating the University from within: Sustainability and Transformation in Higher Education in the Department of Curriculum Studies, Faculty of Education. Janet also worked closely with The Learning City Project – an inter-institutional project working towards integrating real world issues in to the university classroom.  Janet spent 4 years as the Provincial Leader of the BC Working Group and Network on Sustainability Education (www.walkingthetalk.bc.ca) a group that is now the UN Regional Centre for Expertise in Education for Sustainable Development – British Columbia. Her research interests include long-term research and evaluation of transdisciplinary higher education, transformative learning, participatory action research, sustainability education and organizational change in higher education.

Janet is passionate about teaching and learning, facilitating dialogue and participatory processes. She keeps busy raising two kids and dreaming of life as a social entrepreneur/urban farmer.