Chantal Gibson

Dewey Fellow
May 2019 - Oct 2020

Chantal Gibson has been a University Lecturer in the School of Interactive Art and Technology at SFU since 2002, primarily teaching Design Communication and W courses. As a curriculum developer her goal is to Design for Everyone to promote an engaging and inclusive classroom.

A proponent of universal design principles, Chantal leans on the media expertise of her SIAT students and colleagues to develop flexible and adaptable learning tools that embrace student knowledge, language, and cultural differences to promote reading, writing and media literacies.

Chantal has received two Teaching and Learning Development Grants to study the impact of collaborative design activities on student portfolio writing and research writing. She received the SFU Excellence in Teaching Award in 2016.

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Marek Hatala, PhD

Dewey Fellow
May 2019 - June 2021

Dr. Marek Hatala is a Professor at the School Interactive Arts and Technology where he is a Director of the Laboratory for Ontological Research. He received his PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the Technical University in Kosice (Slovakia). His research is driven by the problems arising between the computing systems and their users. The areas of his prior interests include configuration engineering design, organizational learning, semantic interoperability, ontologies and semantic web, user modeling in ubiquitous and ambient intelligence environments, and software engineering and service-oriented architectures. Dr. Hatala’s current research is framed within the area of Learning Analytics. Specifically, he builds on the learning sciences to establishing the theories of effects of open learner models on learner’s motivation with the goal to improve their motivation and learning outcomes in the blended-learning environments. Dr. Hatala received a Teaching and Learning Development grant to study how to use data students’ engagement with Canvas to improve their time management practices in multi-week projects.

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Juan Pablo Alperin, PhD

Dewey Fellow
May 2018 - March 2021

Juan Pablo Alperin is an Assistant Professor in Publishing and the Associate Faculty Director of Research with the Public Knowledge Project at Simon Fraser University. In both of those roles, Juan is an open access advocate, and a researcher of scholarly communication with a focus on understanding the value that the public finds in scholarly work. He believes that research, especially when it is made freely available (as so much of today’s work is), has the potential to make meaningful and direct contributions to society, and that it is our responsibility as the creators of this research to ensure we understand the mechanisms, networks, and mediums through which our work is discussed and used. In the classroom, Juan practices an array of open pedagogy practices, with the hope of imparting on students a sense that they can—and have an obligation to—be publicly engaged citizens after they leave the university. A list of his publications and presentations can be found at http://alperin.ca/cv, and he can be found on Twitter a @juancommander.

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Kathleen Fitzpatrick, PhD

Dewey Fellow
January 2018 - December 2018

Kathleen Fitzpatrick is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Biological Sciences at SFU.  She received her PhD from SFU in 2005, in the field of Molecular Genetics. She began teaching at SFU, as a limited term lecturer, in the Fall of 2004. Teaching mainly Genetics and Developmental Biology, she continues to do a little genetic research in collaboration with a colleague at Western Washington University, and with the help of an army of undergraduates at SFU. Educational interests include student motivation, metacognition and student self-efficacy. Kathleen has twice been nominated for SFU’s excellence in teaching awards and was a National Academies Education Fellow in the Life Sciences, for the year 2012-2013. Kathleen received a Teaching and Learning Development grant to study the impact of student self-reflection and metacognitive instruction on learning gains and student attitude.

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Lisa Papania, PhD

DEWEY FELLOW (SEPTEMBER 2018 - AUGUST 2019)

Lisa Papania teaches design, innovation and business marketing - with a focus on sustainability and creating a circular, community-focused entrepreneurial economy - at Simon Fraser University's Beedie School of Business. She has a PhD from SFU in Canada, and an MBA from Wits Business School in South Africa. Her research interests include: how individuals create ideas; how individuals communicate their ideas to others; how to create, lead and successfully work in innovative teams. Our uncertain world requires leaders that will shape the future positively. Lisa's research and teaching focus increasingly on the environments and circumstances that enable and encourage individuals to identify their own paths to intentionally creating and contributing to meaningful change.

She has extensive experience at major multi-national corporations developing products and leading product development teams in environments facing numerous social and sustainability challenges. As a case writer, she has written many teaching cases that require students to unpack, understand and grapple with complex problems in which the interests of business and society are intertwined. Her teaching focuses on engaging students in developing innovative solutions in consideration of local and broader social and environmental issues. Lisa has published articles, case studies and book chapters on innovation and sustainability. Based on her research and teaching, in 2015 Lisa created an action research project, Lupii Cafe, to enact, support and study positive community-focused sustainability interventions.

Michael Filimowicz, PhD

DEWEY FELLOW (SEPTEMBER 2017-AUGUST 2018)

Michael Filimowicz is a multi-disciplinary artist and researcher working at the overlapping boundaries of media forms. He is founder of the Cinesonika International Film Festival and Conference of Sound Design, Co-Editor of The Soundtrack academic journal, and general editor of the new Routledge Series, Foundations in Sound Design. He has three research areas: 1) development of new forms of multimodal and audiovisual display, 2) computational creativity in pedagogy and curriculum development, and 3) exploring new syntheses between digital humanities and third wave human-computer interaction. His first book is recently out, Teaching Computational Creativity, with Cambridge University Press. He is a Senior Lecturer in SIAT and Faculty Director of the Philosophers’ Café program.

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Jamie Mulholland, PhD

Dewey Fellow (September 2016-August 2017)

Academic Profile

Jamie Mulholland is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mathematics at SFU.  He received his Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia in 2006, in the field of Algebraic Number Theory.  He immediately joined the Department of Mathematics at Simon Fraser University as a Lecturer, excited to be back at the place where he earned his BSc. Jamie is involved with coordinating and teaching some of the core undergraduate mathematics courses and was awarded the SFU Excellence in Teaching Award (2011), the Faculty of Science Excellence in Teaching Award (2011), and the Canadian Mathematical Society Excellence in Teaching Award (2015). His educational interests focus on organizational and pedagogical methods in teaching large mathematics classes. Jamie has received three Teaching and Learning Development grants to study the use of online instructional videos and interactive engagement activities in teaching calculus.

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Robert Krider, PhD

Dewey Fellow (January 2016-December 2016)

Academic Profile

Dr. Robert Krider is a Professor of Marketing in the Beedie School of Business at SFU since 1999. He has also taught strategy and analytics at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, the University of Ottawa, the China-Europe International Business School and INSEAD in Shanghai, the University of British Columbia, the Universidade Catolica Portuguesa in Lisbon, Pforzheim University in Germany, and the City University of Hong Kong.  His research involves the modeling of consumer and management decisions, especially in the retailing and leisure industries. He has served on teaching and learning committees at the faculty and university level and published analyses of socioeconomic factors in the Fraser Institute “School Report Cards.”

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Sarah D. Johnson, PhD

Dewey Fellow (September 2015-August 2016)

Academic Profile

Sarah D. Johnson Ph.D. is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Physics at SFU. Before joining the faculty of SFU in 2005, she taught undergraduate physics at the University of La Verne, SUNY Geneseo, and Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Her original research field was experimental particle physics, but she now concentrates on Physics Education Research (PER) and public outreach. She was awarded the Faculty of Science Excellence in Teaching Award in 2012 and served as a Faculty of Science Teaching Fellow from 2012-2014. While at SFU she received two Teaching and Learning Development grants to study the implementation of innovative pedagogy in first year physics classes.

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Lannie Kanevsky, PhD

Dewey Fellow (January 2015-December 2015)

Academic Profile

Lannie Kanevsky, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University.  Her academic career began in 1988, at McGill University and she has been at SFU since 1991.  Her scholarly work investigates the learning of highly able students as well as the learning of students in the courses and programs she designs and teaches.  She has received two awards from the Faculty of Education: the Award for Excellence in Scholarly Teaching and the Jack Paterson Award in recognition of exemplary service to the Faculty.