Arts-based educational research

• Supporting disadvantaged and marginalized children and youth through online art pedagogies during COVID-19
• Facilitating refugee students’ access to education through art that supports language learning, improved mental health, trust and development of a sense of belonging in trauma-informed classrooms

Refugee education

• SSHRC Partnership Development grant, “Pathways to education: An international study to understand the educational experiences of refugee children with dis/abilities” in Canada, Jordan & Kazakhstan.

Creative writing

• Promoting wellbeing in student university experiences
• Supporting new teachers’ identity formation through narrative writing & video instruction
• Ethics, aesthetics and the ineffable in learning through literature and creative writing
• Distance education course design implementing story experiences for undergraduate students
• Storytelling across the curriculum

Literacy and academic writing

• Series of videos on academic writing for first year university students
• Teaching “pre-literate” refugee students through emotional regulation, narrative and art