Lynn Fels

Highlights

• Performing Mentorship: Investigating Mentorship in 4 Arts for Social Change Creative Spaces and Contexts

• Women Taking Action in Prison Health Inside Out

• Learning Through Encounters with Technology

• Art for Social Change:  An Intergrated Research Program

Interests

• Performative inquiry, performing mentorship, writing as inquiry, pedagogy, & reflection; reimagining and interrupting the scripts and contexts that perform us; collaborative research creation; moments of resistance, vulnerability, openings that tug on my sleeve as action sites of inquiry & learning, writing with women with incarceration experience; arts for social change in Canada; arts across the curriculum

Keywords

Performative inquiry; performative writing, arts-based research, arts across the curriculum, social circus, arts for social change

Doctoral Supervision

• Minhas, Simrat (EdD, 2026), BECOMING VIDYA: A narrative inquiry into loss, identity, and reflection in the liminal space of nursing and being
  
• Paterson, Misty (PhD, 2025), Making care matter through co-inquiry: the HeART of well-becoming
• Lin, Ming-Yu (PhD, 2024), Who do we become? A piano teacher and her students' improvisational journey in classical piano lessons
• Jemmott, Kessey (PhD, 2023), Laugh & cry does live in the same house
• McCabe, Kathleen (EdD, 2023), Walking backward out into the wild
• Newman, Amy B. (EdD, 2023), A stone sings in the stream: Sounding timbral lines in principaling
• Anderson, Sheena (PhD, 2021), To come to know who rides upon your tongue: sound sSādhanā— cultivating sSelf through sSwara: A practice-based spiritual inquiry
• Kelley, Leah (EdD, 2021), The person who arrives: Storying connections between disability studies and educational practice
• Newman, Timothy (PhD, 2021), All about Timmerman: an autobiographical mapping of benchmarks of artistic exploration, intellectual awareness and evolving identity from early childhood through to senior adulthood
• Hadjipieri, Elena (PhD, 2019), Dia rhythm and light, colour, form and compassion… an “icon(ograph)ical” voyage in ways of reading Byzantine ecclesial monuments
• Richardson, Sylvia (PhD, 2018), Carbon butterfly alchemizing trauma through creative intention, storytelling and art
• Cant, Annabella Ildiko (PhD, 2016), Unswaddling pedagogy: Imagining a new beginning to the practice of Imaginative Education (Co-supervisor)
• Irvine, Marlowe Graham (PhD, 2014), While I am my hair my hair is me - literary analysis of a narrative inquiry into teacher identity formation

Master's Supervision

• Reid, Matthew (MA, 2025), Sandstone: a musician's response to crisis
• Friesen, Megan Nicole (MA, 2023), Beyond danceless classrooms: Investigating approaches to support classroom teachers in teaching dance across elementary school curricula
• Hardern, Erica (MA, 2022), Partnered FlowArts and the cultivation of empathy in primary-aged children
• Morin Beaulieu, Audrey (MA, 2022), Collective and individual selves in the making: Identity inquiries through self-directed and in-class art explorations
• Usher, Donna (MA, 2021), Where teachers teach: Portraits of arts educators and their classrooms
• Armos, Nicole (MA, 2020), Listening for listening in art and inquiry
• Harder, Elanie (MA, 2020), Performing identity at the arts edge: Developing radio memoir through the excavation of living inquiry
• Lundin, Angela (MA, 2019), Finding Wonderland - Artistic identity as a way of being
• Kilpatrick, Edmond (MA, 2018), Art as a means to locate and disrupt embodied prejudice with emotional sensations on the body: The artful and transformative telling of stories of stigma and HIV.
• Parker, Meghan (MA, 2017), Art teacher in process: An illustrated exploration of art, education and what matters (Co-supervisor)
• Thomasson, Amy Nicole (MA, 2017), The Gardener, The Actor, and The Educator: Six Lessons Towards Creating and Cultivating Spaces of Vulnerability Between Theatre for Young Audiences and Education
• Rutherford, Thea Andrea (MA, 2016), "Meandering into Meaning: A teacher's reflection on the pedagogy of wandering"
• Dimas, Maria Ellene (MA, 2015), Pedagogy of Distance: Touch in Education (Co-supervisor)
• Scarf, Jasmine (MA, 2014), Navigating the Space Between: A Search for the Role of a Creative Facilitator in Arts Education
• Weiden, Eric Stephen (MA, 2014), Listening In Towards Sound: creating soundscapes to sound our presence
• Wardrop, Amanda Megan Myfanwy (MA, 2012), Curiouser and curiouser: inviting performances. Reflections on hospitality, transitions and pedagogy.
• Richardson, Sylvia Lorena (MA, 2011), Flesh mapping: cartography of struggle, renewal and hope in education
• Christofferson, Rebecca (MA, 2009), Dancing in the belly: performative inquiry in pregnancy