Welcome!

Tiffany is a first-year MA Psychology Student at Carleton University. She is in an experimental/research-based program and her research interests are in social identity and experiences of solitude. She comes with a variety of experience from both academia and the professional workforce. Her key contributions in this module were within the Project Management Module and the Academic Resilience Module. Tiffany has a passion for project management and logistics, as well as improving the post-secondary experience for everyone.

My name is Sarah McPhedran, and I am a third-year undergraduate student who acted as the Project Manager throughout the development of this course. I was so pleased to be involved in a project that condoned equity and inclusion and allowed me to gain important EDI values that I will carry with me in my future academic and professional careers. Projects like this course make me feel confident that our future graduate students will be able to excel in an environment where they feel comfortable and supported.

Leah is currently finishing her PhD in the Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences at the University of Ottawa. She is a first-generation student passionate about decreasing barriers for students entering higher education in STEM by discussing the hidden curriculum. Leah is also avidly involved in conversations about improving mental health, creating strong mentor relationships, and advocating for equity, diversity, inclusion, and respect (EDIR). In her spare time, Leah enjoys exploring local restaurants and cheering on her favourite sports teams. Leah’s key contributions to this course were within the Project Management Module.

Gino DiLabio is a Professor of Chemistry and Dean of the Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science on the Okanagan Campus of The University of British Columbia (UBC). He joined UBC in 2014 after spending 13 years at Canada’s National Institute for Nanotechnology as a research scientist and director. He has published more than 160 papers, book chapters, books, and patents. Gino’s key contributions to this course were within the Navigating Difficult Conversations Module and the Project Management Module.

Jeremy Kerr holds the University Research Chair in Macroecology and Conservation and is Professor and Chair of Biology at University of Ottawa. He is elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and Sigma Xi Scientific Research Honour Society. His primary research seeks to discover how the environmental change affects biodiversity. This work has led to discoveries with broad impact, most recently around how and why climate change has affected species survival, with several publications in Science (2007, 2015, 2017, 2020) and elsewhere. Dr. Kerr’s discoveries have achieved a global profile in the media, reaching an audience of hundreds of millions of people. Dr. Kerr is strongly engaged in public science, working at the forefront of efforts to sustain scientific integrity, conserve species at risk, and to propose and implement policies on equity, diversity, and inclusion that have transformed Canada’s research landscape.

Isabelle Barrette-Ng is a 3M National Teaching Fellow, and she is a Professor and Head of the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Windsor. Dedicated to empowering graduate students as they build their teaching practices, she developed and implemented SAGES (SoTL Advancing Graduate Education in STEM), a two-course program that has now been implemented in different institutions in Canada and the U.S. Isabelle also co-led the development of a mentorship guide for teaching and learning in higher education. As a discipline-based education researcher, she is interested in exploring how mentorship relationships can best be created and fostered, and how these relationships can help graduate students adopt evidence-based teaching practices. Isabelle loves opportunities to engage in conversation and work with colleagues to re-examine learning and mentorship in graduate school. Her key contributions in this course were within the Mentorship Module.